Enhancing Ecological Education
The Intuitive Design Workspace Built for Ecological Educators & Students
Equip your students with intuitive permaculture design software that brings aerial imagery, elevation contours, and drag-and-drop tools into one flexible canvas.
Don’t Let Technical Friction Stall Your Students’ Progress
Unsuitable Software
Students spend more time figuring out how to make generic software handle ecological design than actually designing.
Paper sketches lack accurate scale, real dimensions, and precision.
The Cost: Valuable time spent troubleshooting tools instead of teaching ecological design.
Scattered Site Data
Students waste days trying to source base maps, contours, and aerial views across disparate platforms.
Complex setup burns enthusiasm before actual design work even begins.
The Cost: Students get bogged down in data collection instead of focusing on site analysis and design thinking.
Unclear Student Submissions
Inconsistent, unscaled hand drawings make reviewing student projects ambiguous.
It becomes difficult to separate a student’s struggle with drawing techniques from their grasp of ecological design.
The Cost: Misleading submissions that obscure a student’s true design capability.
See Permiehub in Action
See Permiehub in Action From Raw Satellite Data to Full Layout in 60 Seconds
Experience how quickly you can import aerial imagery, map site sectors, and place detailed elements like raised beds, espalier trees, and water tanks.
Discover Why Educators Love Permiehub
Design Process First
Permiehub is intuitive and aligned with established ecological design processes, allowing your students to focus on learning your curriculum, not drawing skills or fighting unsuitable software.Portfolio-Ready Designs
Students generate accurate and attractive digital plans which ensures their final projects are not just theory exercises, but designs ready to be implemented and ready for their designer portfolios.Community Plan for Students
Remove financial barriers to practical design. Permiehub offers Community Plan for students at no cost, ensuring your entire class can access the best design toolbox without licensing fees.Everything Your Students Need
Design With Real Dimensions.
- Since every element, distance, and area within Permiehub is mapped to real-world dimensions, your students never have to worry about manually figuring out scale or converting measurements. They can immediately focus on the design problem and their final projects are buildable and professionally precise
All Project Data in One Place.
- Permiehub allows students to collate, represent, and manage all your project data - from structures and utility lines to external forces, earthworks - within a single, unified environment.
Print with Precision.
- Students can produce scale-accurate prints of entire designs or specific sections. Complete with labels, legend, and essential property data, Permiehub ensures your physical deliverables are as professional and impactful as the digital plans.
Work From Any Device, Anywhere.
- Your students can access and work on their design projects anywhere they have internet - designing in the classroom on a tablet, working on a personal laptop at home, or recording site observations instantly on a phone when on site.
Help Centre: Supporting Every Step.
- When students need technical clarity, they can find it instantly. Our comprehensive Help Centre provides step-by-step instructions on core operational tasks, such as creating a base map, adding a sun sector, and defining zones. This ensures students can quickly troubleshoot technical steps themselves, preserving your valuable time to focus entirely on teaching design principles and methodology.
Supports Your Students Each Step
Benefits in Base Map
- Load available aerial imagery, property boundaries, contour lines, and water lines* or draw them manually
- Import your own reference images and instantly auto-scale them to the correct dimensions by providing just one measurement
- Stamp trees and adjust their size using the dimension inputs or on-screen manipulation
- Mark and annotate existing structures, infrastructure, and utility lines to accurately inform your design
- Toggle reference images on or off to seamlessly switch between easy image tracing and a clear, uncluttered plan view
Benefits in Site Analysis
- Display sun movement and sun ray direction at specific times of the year and day
- Mark out the direction and strength of prevailing winds using directional arrows
- Note down any wildlife corridors and movement patterns around the land
- Students can select from a library of site analysis symbols to mark important land observations
- Encourage your students to involve loved ones by recording land observations together
Benefits in Concept Design
- Document and define design zones by attaching labels and descriptions for automatic legend generation
- Record inputs and outputs between zones to clearly define their functional relationships
- Colour-code zones within the concept design for quick visual recognition of their purpose
- Test and refine spatial relationships between elements by creating scaled concept design overlays
- Let your students verify the accessibility and flow of their concept design by delineating communication pathways
- Show your students how to use resources efficiently and minimise waste by visualising the inputs and outputs between concepted areas
Benefits in Detailed Design
- Students will develop consistent, detailed designs using a library of objects such as garden beds, water tanks, espaliers, swales, and more
- Display the periods when deciduous trees have leaves to show how they provide cooling shade in summer and warming sun in winter
- Generate planting plan lists and work task lists using a legend with labels and descriptions
- Your students can record and visualise monthly yields from their homestead perennial plantings
- Students can track and visualise the progress of works by updating implementation status directly within the detailed design
Benefits in Management
- Students will be able to implement their projects with confidence, as all objects are designed with real-world dimensions
- Students can share clear and detailed plans with contractors and maintenance teams
- Students will be able to use the plans for future consultations and works
- Students will create a lasting digital design record which can be modified and printed as accurately scaled plans whenever needed
We Know How Much Effort Goes Into Teaching Ecological Design
Educators want to focus on core design practices, not on explaining how to scale hand drawings or use digital drawing tools. We built Permiehub with ecological landscape design education in mind - featuring a built-in Base Map Wizard, guidance to help students get started, and a toolbox that aligns directly with the standard design process to support your curriculum, not compete with it.
Permiehub: Member of Permaculture Australia
Permiehub is an organisational member of Permaculture Australia. This connection ensures our platform remains focused on the practical application of ecological design and supports the continued growth and success of the wider permaculture community.
Get Free Access for Your Course
1. Gain Educator Access
Get in touch with us to set up your course and receive your unique access code.2. Share Your Unique Code
We'll give you an access code your students can use to activate their free Community Plan.3. Students Start Designing
Students sign in using your unique access code and they can start designing.Remove the Friction for Your Students
- Teaching ecological landscape design should be an inspiring journey for your students, not a struggle with drawing or using unsuitable software. Permiehub unifies aerial imagery, topographical contour generation, and drag-and-drop design tools into a clean, intuitive workspace tailored for students as well as professional designers. Whether your students are creating a base map, conducting a site analysis, laying out zones, or planning complex agroforestry systems, Permiehub eliminates software friction so you can focus on delivering your course and training the next generation of ecological designers.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Our Community Plan is available for eligible educators and their students for educational use. Our primary goal is to remove financial barriers, ensuring your entire class has access to the best tools without licensing fees or budget approvals. Students can enjoy our Community Plan. See plans for more details.
Looking for advanced tools for educators? Help us shape our Advanced Educators Toolkit, featuring dedicated classrooms, by joining our Founding Customers Programme for Educators.
Permiehub is ideal for any course focused on applied sustainable landscape design, where students need to map a property and translate theoretical principles into accurate plans. Relevant courses include, but are not limited to Permaculture design courses, Food Forest Design, Syntropic Agroforestry Design, Regenerative Agriculture Design, and other Ecological Landscape Design Courses.
Permiehub acts as a bridge between theory and practical application. By handling the technical challenges such as scaling, drawing, and precision, the platform ensures your students can dedicate their focus to applying the core principles and design patterns you teach. This maximises learning time, and ensures students finish the course with professional, portfolio-ready designs.
No. Based on the feedback from our customers who do not consider themselves ’tech-savvy’, they are able to start using Permiehub immediately after attending one of our webinars.
No. Permiehub uses intuitive patterns. Basic computer skills are more than enough. If students can use social media, they will be able to use Permiehub.
No. Permiehub runs entirely in the browser, meaning no installation is required. This ensures complete compatibility across all internet-enabled devices - from personal laptops and desktop computers to tablets and mobile phones.
No. Permiehub runs on computers, tablets, as well as mobile phones.
Built-in guidance, regular Webinars, and our comprehensive Help Centre provide self-service support with clear, step-by-step instructions on all core tasks like base mapping, analysing sun path, and adding zones. With our support, you are free to focus on curriculum delivery and design feedback.
Start by creating your Permiehub account by signing in with Gmail. Then, send us an Expression of Interest to verify eligibility and receive your unique activation code. Once activated, you can immediately invite your students to join and start using Permiehub.
Next Live Webinar Starts In
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- Sept24
Permiehub for Land Stewards
- See a design process in action and experience how Permiehub simplifies land mapping, helps you design your vision, and supports you in preserving the legacy of your land stewardship. After your successful attendance, we will provide you with an invitation code to start using the Community Plan immediately.
- Thu 24-Sept-2026
- 7:00 PM, Sydney Time (AEST)
- Online