Hats off to Midwest Permaculture
Thank you to the Midwest Permaculture family for sharing your collective years (decades) of experience and expertise through this informative and inspiring course.
I completed the self-study online Permaculture Design Course, and while this version is a series of recorded videos, it is thoughtfully crafted in a way that feels interactive and that you’re actually participating with your fellow students and the educators.
*Bill and Milton, the "lead" educators, also offer a once-a-week support session over a 9 week period to complete the course. This was extremely helpful to keep me on track because I was taking the course near the end of the year with a lot of activities going on.
After taking the course and allowing it to percolate, the biggest takeaway for me was a shift in perspective about how to see the world, inner and outer.
The course weaves together indigenous knowledge, science and practical design options appropriate for your local climate in a way that helps you see how soil, water, food systems, homes, and communities all connect.
Bill and Milton don’t prescribe one path; they help you recognize patterns and possibilities so you can design thoughtfully wherever you are.
It’s a truly welcoming experience for anyone curious about seeing the world with a different lens while building more resilient landscapes, livelihoods, and communities.
Even outside of the "main course," Midwest Permaculture offers so much more. I started watching their Intro series on YouTube and, while that was recorded ~16 years ago, the message is just as relevant, if not more so.
One of my favorite quotes (there are many):
“What is, and how do things really work.
How can we, in our lifetime, however long that may be, live meaningfully and leave the planet in better condition than we arrived.”
-Bill Wilson, co-founder Midwest Permaculture








