An in-person PDC provides you with real world, hands-on experience. You’ll be able to apply what you learn as you go, getting a feel for how things work as you learn about them. What’s more, you get to make personal connections with instructors and fellow students. Permaculture is a blend of theory and practice. Online PDCs and permaculture courses can be full of wonderful information, but they don’t provide an opportunity to practice what you learn with real-time, on the ground support. Graduates from our PDC who’ve gone on to take online permaculture courses have found online learning to be a wonderful complement to – but by no means a suitable replacement for – an in-person course. Similarly, we’ve had students take our PDC after completing an online course, and they’ve found great value in the hands-on aspects and the community building, plus the content review.