All our courses at Applewood Permaculture Centre
Welcome to the full list of our in person and online courses, for the 2025/26 course years.
If you are interested in joining a course complete our Expression of Interest Form here or send an email to applewoodcourses@yahoo.com. Click below to see each category or scroll down to see them in date order.
In Person Courses 2025
Apple Harvest & Juicing 2025
9th – 13th October 2025
Facilitator: Chris Evans & Looby Macnamara
Location: Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire UK
Join us for our annual apple harvest and juicing volunteer week. Its great fun getting the fruit in the day and then gathering round the fire in the evening.
In Person Courses 2026
Fruit Tree Grafting and Pruning Workshop 2026
7th March 2026
Facilitator: Chris Evans
Location: Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire UK
You will learn how to prune and graft fruit trees. You will also take home from the day, 2 trees you have grafted your self.
Mothers As Natural Leaders Course 2026
21-22nd March 2026
Facilitators: Looby Macnamara & Emma Gorbutt
Location: Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire UK
The course guides women through a nourishing reflective process. We explore what leadership means to us as mothers; leadership of ourselves, our families, in our community and in the wider world.
Forest Gardening Course - April 2026
25-26th April 2026
Facilitator: Chris Evans
Location: Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire UK
This 2-day introduction to the concept and techniques of forest gardening involves theory and practice from visioning to harvesting.
Teacher Training Course 2026
5-14th May 2026
Facilitator: Chris Evans & Looby Macnamara
Location: Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire, UK
This course will give you a grounding in how to teach and share permaculture in a variety of ways, from giving talks to running full permaculture design courses. It is also relevant if you wish to bring more permaculture and creative teaching techniques into your existing work.
Budding and Summer Pruning Workshop 2026
4th July 2026
Facilitator: Chris Evans
Location: Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire UK
Interested to learn about fruit tree budding? Didn’t know you could prune in the Summer? Come to a Budding & Summer Pruning Workshop with Chris Evans. You will learn about budding and Summer pruning, and take home a tree you’ve budded yourself.
Forest Gardening Course - September 2026
5-6 September 2026
Facilitator: Chris Evans
Location: Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire UK
This 2-day introduction to the concept and techniques of forest gardening involves theory and practice from visioning to harvesting.
ACE Course - Activating Cultural Emergence 2026
2026 Dates TBC
Facilitator: Looby Macnamara & Kate Gathercole
Location: Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire UK
This course is a wonderful opportunity to explore your own personal culture while being immersed in a field of encouragement, with Looby one of the co-founders and developers of the Cultural Emergence toolkit, in person at Applewood
PEACE Deep Dive - Peace Empowerment And Cultural Emergence 2026
Dates 2026 TBC
Facilitators: Looby Macnamara & Leona Johnson
Location: Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire UK
This module of the Cultural Emergence toolkit gives us the opportunity to deeply connect with ourselves, each other and the more than human world. It is an experiential journey to finding peace and empowerment within ourselves
Practical Permaculture Volunteer Week 2026
2026 Dates TBC
Facilitator: Chris Evans & Looby Macnamara
Location: Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire UK
Join us for our annual volunteer week, getting jobs done, creating community and then gathering round the fire in the evening.
Online Courses 2025 /2026
Group Diploma Adventure (online) 2025
Oct 2025 to April 2026
Facilitators: Looby Macnamara & Delvin Solkinson
Location: Online
An adventure in learning and designing. Join like minded people to build momentum, activate creativity, get support and have fun completing Diploma designs. This group diploma adventure will support you to complete a foundation certificate in Applied Permaculture Design with the Permaculture Association Britain. (international students welcomed)
Permaculture Design Course (Online PDC) 2026
January to June 2026
Lead Facilitator Chris Evans plus Tomas Remiarz & guests
Location: Online
This fully accredited online PDC will provide:
* 38.5 hours online contact over 11 x 3.5 -hour zoom sessions
* 40+ hours self-directed learning with observation and design activities, group tutorials and peer group exercises
* A chance to apply permaculture design principles and process on a real home design of your choosing
Cultural Emergence Leadership Training 2026-27
March 2026 to June 2027
Facilitators: Looby Macnamara & Guests
Location: Online
This course is about discovering yourself as a leader. This training will give you the confidence and skills to offer Cultural Emergence consultancy and courses. Using the Cultural Emergence Toolkit you will learn facilitation, design, coaching and mentoring skills.
Design Adventure (Online)
On Going Enrolments
Facilitator: Looby Macnamara
Location: Online
Current Adventure: DESIGN YOUR YEAR AHEAD
The Design Adventure courses will give you the confidence and skills to design any aspect of your life, using the Design Web supported by Cultural Emergence principles and practices. Our next one is creating a design for the coming year.
ACE - Activating Cultural Emergence Course (Online)
On Going Enrolments
Facilitator: Looby Macnamara
Location: Online with monthly Live Calls
In this course we look at the many levels of culture; from our own personal culture and patterns of being, to the global context.
We will practice to sense systems and connection to ourselves, to others and to the more than human world. This course is about bringing the Cultural Emergence toolkit alive in our lives, during this online course.
Cultural Emergence Taster Course
Dates:
Enroll online for FREE
Facilitator:
Information & Booking:
https://cultural-emergence.circle.so/c/cultural-emergence-taster-course/
Online Live Leading Mother Nature Circles Course
Dates:
Enrolments Close 17th October 2025
Enrolments Open
Facilitator:
Emma Gorbutt
Information & Booking:
www.cultural-emergence.circle.so/c/live-mother-nature-circles-course/