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  • Language
    🇵🇹, 🇬🇧
  • Duration
    14 days
  • Difficulty
    Beginner
  • Next Date
    17/06/2025

Join us for an unparalleled learning adventure in the heart of an eco-village in Sintra, guided by permaculture experts Sílvia Floresta and Orlando Pereira 🍃

Next dates:

June 17th to 30th or Septembre 1st to 14th 2025

This intensive two-week course offers an opportunity to understand and apply the principles of permaculture design in creating sustainable and regenerative living systems.

With Sílvia Floresta and Orlando Pereira

Contact Information: ecoaldeiadovale@gmail.com

Course Details

  • Schedule: 8:30 AM to 6:30 PM daily | Dinner at 8 PM
  • Location: Agroecological Project Aldeia do Vale, situated between Sintra and Mafra
  • Fee: €676.50

Course Highlights

This Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course follows the original intensive two-week format created by Bill Mollison, combining theoretical lessons, practical workshops, field trips, interactive games, dynamic activities, experience sharing, and community living. Topics covered include:

  • Principles and ethics of permaculture
  • Reading landscapes and understanding natural patterns and cycles
  • Ecosystem principles, climate, and biogeography in permaculture
  • Design principles, including analysis processes, zoning, and efficient energy planning
  • Resource identification, water management, soil mobilization, and ground cover
  • Building healthy soil and establishing gardens, forests, woodlands, orchards, and agroforests
  • Seed conservation and collection
  • Designing windbreaks, firebreaks, and barriers against agrochemicals
  • Healthy housing and natural building materials
  • Appropriate technologies, including composting toilets, solar dehydrators, and alternative energies
  • Introduction to designing sustainable communities and eco-villages
  • Ecological sanitation and wastewater treatment
  • Rainwater harvesting
  • Water in the landscape: earthworks, dams, lakes, ponds, and ecological swimming pools

Certification

Participants must attend at least 80% of the course to receive a certificate. This involves immersing in permaculture design principles, culminating in the presentation of a final design project.

Accommodation

  • Free Camping: Participants must bring their own camping gear.
  • Enjoy the beauty of camping in nature and fostering a closer connection with the surrounding environment.

Why join?

This will be a transformative two-week permaculture course in Sintra to learn sustainable living from experts, while connecting with nature and community.

What’s included:

  • Over 100 hours of training, with 40% practical learning
  • Access to hot showers
  • Wi-Fi
  • Nutritious vegetarian meals
  • Opportunities for nature hikes to a stunning waterfall and river for swimming, and explorations of Penedo do Lexim or Granja dos Serrões. Enjoy the charm of the valley in this saloia region.
  • The breathtaking landscapes of the Western region
  • A welcoming and family-friendly environment
  • Evenings around the campfire with music, joy, and love
  • New friends who share your goals
  • Study materials to support the course

This course is an opportunity to deeply engage with permaculture design and apply it to real property projects. You will observe nature, understand the landscape, and apply this knowledge in daily life. Be part of a vibrant community committed to ecological and sustainable living. Join us for an unforgettable journey into the heart of permaculture, where classes transform into actions for a regenerative future.

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Location

Aldeia do Vale projecto agroecológico, Beco da vinha, Montelavar, Portugal

Google Reviews

5.0
66 reviews
  • Carmen Berimbau
    Carmen Berimbau
    2 weeks ago

    The place where we transform ourselfs individually, while evolving as an extended global family with the greater intention of balancing ourselfs AGAIN with nature.

  • Michiel van Lookeren Campagne

    We went for a fun mushroom cultivation course. Very nice and relaxed experience, including the ability to make your own growing kit and take it home.

  • Maria Ana Martins
    Maria Ana Martins
    a year ago

    Just loved this mushroom workshop, learned so much in a wonderful place, surrounded by nature all over, Silvia its just a enthusiastic connoisseur 👌 all the staff is so friendly and helpful. Can't wait to be back again at Aldeia do Vale

  • Panni Levay
    Panni Levay
    11 months ago

    I had an amazing day learning about how cultivate m u s r o o m s in a lovely place with super sweet people. Thank you Silvia and to the rest of the team for such a lovely day filled with knowledge, good mood and good food 🌸🌿🏻

  • P.I. Hublou
    P.I. Hublou
    3 years ago

    Though largely said to be self-organising the setting was well prepared to accommodate its student-guests. Our hosts were most interesting and enjoyable people. There was a good balance between what was taught more academically and exercises and fieldwork.

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