7-Day Permaculture Teacher Training with Rosemary Morrow — Daruma Eco-farm

Rosemary Morrow is one of the key figures in permaculture and one of its most influential teachers, and this is a one-off course: she designed it, she teaches every one of the seven days, and it has been scheduled deliberately for the week before IPC16, the International Permaculture Convergence, so that participants can finish the training and then travel on with the group to the convergence from 6 to 15 November 2026. Anyone doing both receives a further ten per cent off the course price. The Permaculture Teacher Training at Daruma is a residential course for people who already hold a permaculture design certificate and now want to teach one. It runs from 29 October to 4 November 2026 as seven teaching days over eight nights, with check-in from two o’clock on the afternoon of 28 October and check-out by noon on 5 November, so participants arrive settled and leave without rushing. The course is taught in English. A recognised PDC from any school is the one prerequisite; students are asked to bring their PDC notes and a working knowledge of the curriculum, because the week builds directly on what they already know rather than repeating it.

The curriculum runs along six learning threads: building learning communities, understanding adult learners, effective teaching practices, diverse teaching methods, tools and educational materials, and evaluation and feedback. Mornings are given to theory and afternoons to micro-teaching practice, feedback and lesson preparation, with each participant’s teaching segments growing progressively longer as the week goes on, so confidence is built by doing rather than by watching. By the end of the course, participants are able to plan complete PDCs, adapt courses to their own local contexts, create cooperative learning cultures, work with varied teaching methods, respond to challenging behaviour in a group, and evaluate whether learning has actually happened. The certificate is issued through the Blue Mountains Permaculture Institute in Australia.

Daruma Eco-farm sits at Bang Phra, in Chonburi, about an hour from Bangkok’s airport, and has hosted more than eight hundred students from thirty-six countries since 2007, which makes it a working teaching environment as well as a working farm. Rosemary Morrow, of the Blue Mountains Permaculture Institute, is joined here by Sneha Koppula of Aranya Agricultural Alternatives in India and by Ashley Chen, who is based in Shanghai and teaches in both English and Mandarin, so the teaching methods on offer are drawn from three very different permaculture education cultures rather than one.

All prices include the seven teaching days, eight nights, all meals, daily practice and feedback, the certificate, library access and use of the natural pool. A place in the campus dorm or a tent space is 28,000 baht, or 25,000 baht for bookings made by 15 September; a twin or double room in the lakeside Thai House is 36,000 baht, or 33,000 baht early bird, and a single room is 41,000 baht, or 38,000 baht early bird. Anyone attending IPC16 receives ten per cent off any advertised price, which brings a dorm place with the early-bird rate down to 22,500 baht, and group transport from the course to the convergence can be arranged so the two can be taken as one journey. A deposit of 7,500 baht holds a place and is refundable until fourteen days before check-in, with the balance due on 1 October. Bookings are made through the course page on the Daruma website.