Something exciting was coming.
In 2019 we posted this note to say new courses were on the way after a quiet spell. We are keeping the original announcement here as the record, condensed. The courses it promised are running now.
Daruma Eco Farm had spent nearly five years with permaculture and earth building courses almost entirely paused. In that quiet time, Neil put the effort into Mosaic, an alternative school built on a permaculture-designed curriculum, and into rebuilding the learning and residential facilities at Daruma so the farm could host courses properly again.
The original post also pointed to a coming shift in permaculture design teaching, framed around David Holmgren's book Retrosuburbia, and previewed new course names: Farm Lab, for practical skills, and Eco-Zoetic, for the behavioural side of permaculture living.
That wait is over. The courses this page announced are live, and this old post now stays only as a record of the announcement.
See the current permaculture design, natural building and other courses running at Daruma.