Permaculture Gardening Fundamentals: A Live Webinar Series

A Live Spring Webinar + Mini Course

You want to grow your own food this season.
But figuring out where to start can feel overwhelming...

What should you plant?
Where should it go?
Is your soil good enough?

This live webinar mini course with industry experts gives you a clear, practical path forward so you can stop guessing and start growing.

Get Your Permaculture Garden Growing

You will learn how to design a garden that fits your climate, your space, and your goals. Each session builds on the last, helping you make real progress week by week.

By the end, you will have a plan and the confidence to put it into action right away.

This is not just theory.

It is practical guidance from experienced permaculture instructors, combined with live Q&A and structured mini-course content you can revisit anytime.

What You Will Gain

You will walk away with the knowledge and confidence to:

Choose the right location for your garden
Build healthy, fertile soil that supports strong growth
Select the best garden setup for your space
Set up irrigation and manage watering effectively
Prevent and manage pests using ecological strategies
Plan for consistent harvest throughout the season

Instead of piecing together advice from videos and blogs, you will follow a proven framework. One that helps you make smart decisions from the beginning.

You will also learn how to understand your specific climate and site conditions. That means you are not just copying what works for someone else. You are creating a garden designed for where you live.

Designed for Real Results This Season

This course focuses on getting a garden started now. You will learn how to evaluate your site, choose your approach, and begin building a productive system that grows with you.

Along the way, you will discover:

How to decide between raised beds, in ground beds, and other approaches
Where to source seeds and starts with confidence
How to support plant health naturally
Ways to extend your growing season
How to plan for continuous harvest

By the end of the series, you will have a clear path forward. No more trial and error.

No more second guessing.

Just a practical plan you can implement immediately.

Learn With Guidance and Support

This mini course combines live instruction with interactive learning. You are not doing this alone.

You will receive:

Four live webinars with experienced permaculture instructors
Real time Q&A to get answers specific to your garden
Guided mini course content in Canvas
Recordings so you can revisit key lessons
A collaborative learning environment with fellow gardeners

How This Course Helps You Get Started

Starting a garden without guidance often leads to wasted time, poor yields, and frustration.

This course series helps you avoid those common mistakes and move forward with confidence.

You will save time. You will grow more food. You will build a system that improves each season.

This course focuses on annual vegetable gardening and getting results quickly. If you later want to expand into full site design, water systems, and perennial planning, those topics are explored more deeply in OSU’s full Permaculture Design Course.

Live webinars:
Tuesdays at 4 PM PST
May 5, 12, 19, and 26

3-4 hours (includes webinar)

Online

$250
First webinar is free

250

Instructors

Andrew Millison

Permaculture Design Certificate

Andrew Millison has been studying, designing, building, and teaching about Permaculture systems since 1996 and is an instructor in the Department of Horticulture at Oregon State University. He instructs Advanced Permaculture Courses in Teaching, and has guest instructed for many Permaculture courses throughout the Western US.

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Marisha Auerbach

Marisha Auerbach is an internationally recognized permaculture educator, designer and speaker based in Portland, OR. She has been practicing, studying and teaching permaculture for over twenty years in the Pacific Northwest. Marisha has worked in diverse environments from the humid temperate climate to the tropical rainforest in Belize to the arid landscapes of Colorado and Montana. Her international experience includes work in Belize, Haiti, Nicaragua and Vietnam.

Tao Orion

Tao Orion has been working in permaculture for over 15 years and specializes in permaculture designs on the West Coast. She specializes in restoration, systems thinking and design, homesteading and small farm management, forestry, and ethnoecology and ethnobotany. She is the author of Beyond the War on Invasive Species: A Permaculture Approach to Ecosystem Restoration.

Devon Bonady

Devon Bonady has been practicing and teaching permaculture for 20 years. She has worked in the Pacific Northwest and, most recently, in the Northeast US. She specializes in plant propagation, edible landscape design, perennial vegetables, fruiting shrubs, and historical and contemporary Northwest ethnobotany.

Kelda Miller

Kelda Miller has worked in the Pacific Northwest, Oklahoma, Haiti, Cuba and Hawaii. She specializes in creating regional permaculture networks and events; permaculture planning applied to urban walkability planning and municipal codes; anti-oppression work related to permaculture; and land-share gardening.

Past Students' Work

Take a look at some recent projects our students have created.