Some people have already been doing a lot of this work and feel confident that they can serve the permaculture community by doing quality work, and they can put out the sign as soon as they graduate. Q: What are the criteria for teaching a permaculture certification course?
The criteria for teaching a Permaculture Design Certification course (PDC) is that you need to have a permaculture design certificate yourself. (see above). We recommend that you apprentice with an experienced teacher to maintain the consistency of quality that we have been experiencing. There are also a number of Permaculture Teacher Training courses being offered. These are not “required” in order to teach a PDC, but most teachers have done this and thus we have maintained that consistency. We want to support the cultivation of new teachers and also want to keep the consistent quality of the PDC. These other formats work well, one just has to be committed to the curriculum to call it a PDC in order to give out a certificate.
