I earned my Permaculture Design Certificate from Regenerative Design Institute in Bolinas, California…RDI is a fantastic place to learn permaculture, nature awareness, natural building, wildcrafting, and other life skills that you may not learn anywhere else. RDI was founded by Penny Livingston-Stark and James Stark. From RDI’s About page:

In the 1980’s, Penny Livingston Stark and James Stark began developing their 3/4 acre home in Pt Reyes, Califorina, as permaculture oasis. They took what was once an open space with a few trees and transformed it into a living permaculture classroom, with features like a grey water koi pond that processes laundry and bath water, a cob library with roof catchment and an outdoor bread oven and attached bench, a vaulted strawbale cottage, and a permaculture food forest garden with fruit, nuts, herbs, berries, vegetables, bamboo and more. From their work at this site, the Permaculture Institute of Northern California (PINC) emerged and Penny and James began teaching courses in Permaculture and other sustainable, earth-based practices.
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In 2003, Penny and James were offered the unique opportunity to apply their design skills and expertise to develop the Commonweal Garden – a beautiful 17 acre site in Bolinas, California – into a large scale living Permaculture classroom and demonstration center for regenerative design. With this opportunity to expand their work and vision, the Permaculture Institute of Northern California became the Regenerative Design Institute (RDI), a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to education and training skilled leaders in regenerative design.

Hands-on with natural plasters at RDI.

Animal systems in Permaculture.

Learning to use a water level.

Penny Livingston-Stark demonstrates the making of compost tea.

Attending RDI’s two-week permaculture intensive was a life-changing experience for which I’ll always be grateful. Highly recommended!

Link: Regenerative Design Institute