Permaculture Association Cascais

Cascais Permaculture Association

Early Bird Membership Now Open!
100€ Annual For First 100 Signups.

Join our annual membership which gives you, monthly events and newsletters, as well as 50% discounts on all our events and classes.

Weekly All Ages Gardening Herbal Medicine

Kids Nature Workshop

Weekly Food Forest Up-Skill Food Security

Networking Drinks & Snaks Voice Your Priority Monthly

Interactive PT Tips

Home Transformations Food Security Think Global Act Local

“We grow food. We grow people. We grow Cascais.”

We’re a local community building a greener, stronger Cascais through permaculture, connection, and joy.

What is permaculture?

Permaculture analyses and breaks down sustainable design components of natural ecosystem which have lasted (sustained) for millennia.
Breaking down the design patterns and systems, Permaculture then teaches us how we can use these lessons to design our own sustainable businesses, ecosystems, leadership strategies, edible gardens, architecture and communities, and so much more.
Permaculture is not about one type of design, but about how all sustainable green design practices and styles function, based on learning from natural ecosystem.
Apart from being one of the only teaching methods in the world which does this, Permaculture also operates on a set of 3 ethics, which guide the curriculum. earth care and people care, prioritising the health and happiness of earths natural ecosystem, and of human life, and lastly fair share, which proposes the distribution of resources in a balanced and not extreme way.

Although its unfortunately common to see permaculture together with dirty looking people without shoes on, Permaculture at its essence is a design science and teaching method which belongs in the mainstream education system and implemented among our most inhabited and developed centres and cities.
Although there is no need to step out of a classroom or from behind your laptop to study Permaculture, but you will need to spend time observing and reflecting on our earths natural systems to fully understand what is being taught. This is because the only examples we have of sustainability are in natural systems, and so this is your classroom.

Apart from a Permaculture certificate, being a more and more desired asset to see on your CV, for employment and promotion, the benefits of studying Permaculture are very hard to overestimate as there are so many. it will change the way you view everything you do for the rest of your life, how you work, and how you organise your time and businesses.
Just like someone telling you about the environmental crisis, and showing you the alarming rate at which our planet and our collective healths are being degraded, you will not be able to unlearn these foundational life lessons, as they relate to how all life functions.