We offer workshops, classes, and courses on Permaculture and sustainable landscape design, as well as topics ranging from bee-keeping to water harvesting to growing food at home.

We offer the Permaculture Design certification course each Spring in February and March in Tucson.  

We also provide consultation and teachers to neighborhoods, schools, governments, non-profits, NGOs, and individuals to help them complete their grant, educational experience, workshop, or Permaculture design. 

We ally with other organizations that plan and create a sustainable future. Our class sites are located in and around Tucson, AZ.

Click here to see the details of our Annual Spring Permaculture Design certification course in Tucson. Click here to see our current one day classes and workshops.

If  you are a non-profit, school, neighborhood group, individual, government, NGO, or other organization, we can collaborate with you to include permaculture ethics, principles and design elements. Click here  to see a sampling of the many clients we have worked with via consultation, design assistance, and custom workshops.

What is Permaculture?

Permaculture is a contraction of the words permanent and agriculture and permanent and culture. Permaculture is a way to live sustainably in a region for many generations, taking care of people and taking care of the environment at the same time. Permaculture uses ecology as the basis for designing sustainability into food production, housing, appropriate technology, and community development. It is  a worldwide movement for regenerative design and implementation with many thousands of projects completed in over 120 countries. As Permaculture designers we study the patterns found in nature and the lessons found in natural ecosystems. We mimick these patterns in designing and implementing home sites, farms, and neighborhoods, as well as less tangible structures like community economics and food distribution systems. Come join us on this journey.

Sonoran Permaculture Guild is located on ancestral Tohono O’odham land and the land of all cultures that have called the Tucson basin home since Paleo-Native people hunted game and gathered plants here starting about 10,000 B.C.E.