Join me this week for a Permaculture Writer's special in conversation with amazing permaculture educator and doer, author and grower Kirsten Bradley from Milkwood Permaculture.

As this podcast is going live, Kirsten has just released her new book -> 'The Milkwood Permaculture Living Handbook: Habits for Hope in a Changing World'. You can find it in your local library, bookstore, online and maybe even in your street library!

It was so great to catch up with Kirsten, chatting about everything from her writing process and the importance of books to how to find a belonging to place when you're renting and practice 'active hope'.

I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I enjoyed making it!

For those who were interested in Kirsten's reference to the book 'It's Not That Radical:
Climate Action to Transform Our World' by Mikaela Loach, here it is! And for those looking for Jonathan Lear's book around First Nations' stewardship, it's called 'Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation'.

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Hello and welcome to the Sense-making in a Changing World podcast. I’m Morag Gamble and this show is hosted by the Permaculture Education Institute . 

Join me each week in conversation with leading ecological thinkers, activists, authors, designers and practitioners to explore 'What Now?' What IS the kind of thinking we need to navigate a positive and regenerative way forward, to myceliate possibilities, to explore what a thriving one-planet way of life could look like. My guests offer voices of clarity and common sense.

In this episode I am speaking with the wonderful Poppy Okotcha -  a qualified permaculture designer based in Devon - an ecological home grower, forager and home cook - passionate about ecological local community food systems and forest gardening.  She is part of the Grow Share Collective and tends a 5 x 30 m edible and medicinal forest garden next to her home.

She loves creating, tending and learning from edible and medicinal spaces that are sustainable, nourishing, beautiful and useful and wild. 

Poppy is a sought after speaker at events and festivals and writes widely about her love of plants and gardening. She’s been featured on BBC Gardeners World and cohosted the Great Garden Revolution on Channel 4.  She also has an online course about wild gardening.

Coming from a modelling background - a rising star in the London Fashion scene - on the catwalk with the likes of Vivienne Westwood - she has presence and popularity that I am so delighted she is bringing to the world of permaculture.

It was just so great to speak with Poppy - she loves permaculture thinking, designing and plants as much as me! 

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Welcome to the Sense-Making in a Changing World podcast. This episode is part of our special permaculture writer's series. My name is Morag Gamble.

I am speaking with Devon based herbal practitioner and herb grower, educator, author and founder of the Herbal History Research Network Dr Anne Stobart.

Anne has two books available through Permanent Publications, The Medicinal Forest Garden Handbook (2020), and coming out this year, Trees and Shrubs That Heal: Reconnecting with the Medicinal Forest - with 80 plants profiled, each with a simple recipe. Ann has also published her PhD research, Household Medicine of 17th Century England

Back in the early 1990s, Anne joined a permaculture design course at Dartington in Devon and was inspired to cultivate more herbs for use in her clinical practice. 

Anne grew many herbs in the cottage garden and on the allotment. but she and her partner wanted to grow more of their own plant supplies, so purchased Holt Wood in 2004 and transformed it from a redundant conifer plantation into a thriving medicinal forest garden based on a permaculture design.

Anne has worked extensively in education, including leading a professional herbal medicine programme at Middlesex University in London, UK. She is a founding member of the Medicinal Forest Garden Trust, a member of the advisory board for the Journal of Herbal Medicine, and is an Honorary University Fellow at the University of Exeter.

Anne has also published research articles on historical recipes and the history of herbal medicine, and has a continuing interest in research into agroforestry and permaculture related to herbal medicine.

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We broadcast from a solar powered studio in the midst of a permaculture ecovillage food forest on beautiful Gubbi Gubbi country. I acknowledge this is and always will be Aboriginal land, pay my respects to elders past and present, and extend my respect to indigenous cultures and knowledge systems across the planet.

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In this episode I am speaking with Churchill Fellow, Community Food Forester, Community Gardens Australia - QLD Coordinator, muliti-award-winning Landscape Architect and Permaculture Educator, Gavin Hardy  - based not far from me in Meanjin Brisbane.

Gav and I go way back - to the early days of setting up Northey Street City Farm in Brisbane, where he is now the education coordinator.

In 2020 Gav was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to investigate the potential of community food forests and orchards . Because of the pandemic his journey was delayed, but finally he got to visit 10 of the world’s exemplar sites and recorded 51 projects in the USA, Canada, UK, The Netherlands and Italy. We sat down shortly after his report was released for this chat.

In this conversation, we talk about what he learned, the insights and recommendations for establishing successful community food forest and orchard projects here in Australia (but obviously ideas that are  relevant around the world) as well as his path into permaculture and how his livelihood is connected.

Gavin's Churchill Fellowship Report.

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We broadcast from a solar powered studio in the midst of a permaculture ecovillage food forest on beautiful Gubbi Gubbi country. I acknowledge this is and always will be Aboriginal land, pay my respects to elders past and present, and extend my respect to indigenous cultures and knowledge systems across the planet.

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In Episode 100 of the Sense-Making in a Changing World,  I am delighted to be speaking with STEPHANIE HAFFERTY who is based on a half-acre no-dig permaculture farm in Lampeter, Wales.

From the Half Acre Homestead, Stephanie explains how to grow year round using climate friendly regenerative organic gardening methods for abundant harvests and fewer weeds, working harmoniously with wildlife, and what to do with your harvests, from seasonal meals to preserving, homemade body, home and garden care, remedies and natural dyes.

In this episode, Stephanie shares a wonderful story about how she discovered permaculture and gardening, the joy she derives from it, and how growing food has helped her to put healthy food on her children’s plates on a modest income. This affordability and accessibility piece is a big part of what Steph is about, and what she shares with people - nothing highbrow or expensive. Just straightforward simple advice to get a diversity of healthy food from the pot to the plate.

ABOUT STEPHANIE
Stephanie is an award winning garden and food author - she wrote the Creative Kitchen, and co-authored No Dig Organic Home and Garden - and she’s a cover girl for a recent Permaculture Magazine! Stephanie is actively involved in Permaculture Wales and UK, and is a Vice Chair of the Garden Media Guild.

She’s also been featured on the long-running UK gardening show, BBC Gardeners World  and other shows, and has 30 years of practical experience to share. She runs courses in her edible garden (and soon online) is a simple living and no-dig gardening advocate, a sought-after speaker at gardening events and she consults with edible gardening projects far and wide.

Stephanie has created and worked home, community and market gardens, gardens for  large  estates, restaurants and galleries. In 2021 she led the RHS No Dig Allotment Demonstration Garden at Hampton Court Garden Festival. 

Follow her gardening and homesteading life on YouTube, her blog or social media.

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We broadcast from a solar powered studio in the midst of a permaculture ecovillage food forest on beautiful Gubbi Gubbi country. I acknowledge this is and always will be Aboriginal land, pay my respects to elders past and present, and extend my respect to indigenous cultures and knowledge systems across the planet.

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In this episode of Sense-Making in a Changing World I am delighted to be speaking with Erik Ohlsen - a well-known, successful and much-loved Sonoma-based ecological designer, permaculture practitioner, educator, author, regenerative entrepreneur who runs multiple companies deeply grounded in a love of nature and based on permaculture ethics and principles. Eric is one of those wonderful people who gets stuff done!!!

In this conversation I ask him about how he has grown his wildly successful Permaculture Artisans company that is regenerating landscapes from urban to rural, and even as we spoke in the process of informing the design of a permaculture agrihood. It’s a wonderfully inspiring, uplifting and wide ranging conversation - spanning from with his early volunteering projects giving away gardens while cultivating huge social capital and skill development, to his current work, a his legacy book as he calls it, about to be released by Synergetic Press - the MASSIVE 550 page guide  - The Regenerative Landscaper: Design and Build Landscapes that Repair the Environment.

This is going to become the go to manual and curriculum for permaculture learners who want to put into practice all they are learning in permaculture courses - it gets right into the nitty gritty and shows how to make it work!

Towards the end, I ask Erik about his process of writing and feel entirely liberated in how I can now set about writing too.

Executive Director: Permaculture Skills Center
Owner/Principal: Permaculture Artisans
Youtube Chanel: PermacultureArtisans

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We broadcast from a solar powered studio in the midst of a permaculture ecovillage food forest on beautiful Gubbi Gubbi country. I acknowledge this is and always will be Aboriginal land, pay my respects to elders past and present, and extend my respect to indigenous cultures and knowledge systems across the planet.

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In this episode I am delighted to be speaking with pivotal figure in the world of deep ecology - a concept I came into contact with at Schumacher College in 1992 when I studied with Arne Naess - the Norwegian mountaineer and philosopher who coined the term Deep Ecology.

 My guest today is deep ecologist, rainforest activist and author JOHN SEED - a fellow ecovillager. He’s based at Narara Ecovillage in NSW and I'm at Crystal Waters on Gubbi Gubbi Country, QLD.

John is the founder and director of the Rainforest Information Centre in Australia. He has worked for rainforests worldwide since 1979. He says many of their campaigns have been successful, but sadly,  for every forest saved, another 100 have disappeared. He realised he cannot save the planet one forest at a time - what we needed is a profound change in consciousness. 

Deep ecology reminds us that the living world is not a pyramid with humans on top, but a web. We, humans, are but one strand in that web and as we destroy this web, we destroy the foundations for all complex life including our own.

It’s not enough to have ecological ideas, says Arne - we have to have an ecological identity and ecological self. To nourish the ecological identity, John and the american peace scholar-activist Joanna Macy developed a series of experiential rituals called the Council of All Beings. John co-write a book, Thinking Like a Mountain in 1988  about the council of all beings, with Arne Naess, Joanna Macy and Australian Pat Fleming.

https://www.rainforestinformationcentre.org/john_seed
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How do we tend to land and culture at the same time?

This episode was a conversation of hope for me, exploring the concept and practice social forestry with Tomi Hazel Vaarde - everything from ancient indigenous knowledge to stories of forests. Also Tomi reflects on design - avoiding it being an imposition, but something that emerges from connection with place and community  - an incredibly important distinction for a permaculture designer.

Social forestry is the Tomi's big picture thinking, their frame of reference for engaging in local and bioregional restoration. "Social forestry is tending the land as people of place. How do we cooperate with each other to do useful things in these places? It's always site specific, and it's always culturally specific."

Tomi Hazel Vaarde is a long-term resident of Southern Oregon and is deeply situated in place and permaculture. He's a prolific permaculturist - advising farms, stewarding forests and teaching environmental sciences for more than 50 years, even helping Bill Mollison in the first PDC on the West Coast.

Tomi's latest book (published April 2023 by Synergetic Press) is Social Forestry: Tending the Land as People and Place - an acclaimed guide of practical placemaking advice and ancient lore - a must-have for anyone wanting to have a reciprocating relationship with their communities, themselves, and most importantly their awe-inspiring forests and landscapes. 

In this conversation, we also discuss this book and the many projects that have informed its emergence.

Enjoy!

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We broadcast from a solar powered studio in the midst of a permaculture ecovillage food forest on beautiful Gubbi Gubbi country. I acknowledge this is and always will be Aboriginal land, pay my respects to elders past and present, and extend my respect to indigenous cultures and knowledge systems across the planet.

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In this episode of Sense-making in a Changing World  I am delighted to be speaking with Jasmine Dale - permaculture author, designer and educator as part of our special permaculture writers series.

• Jasmine's book is the Permaculture Design Companion: A practical workbook for integrating people and places  -  a step by step guide to applying permaculture in your own life, in any context. It combines creative and analytical activities with self reflection and observation. Published by Permanent Publications.
• Here's a link to one of Jasmine's articles - Developing Personal Resilience with Permaculture (Issue 107: pg 69) in Permaculture Magazine available until  June 18th 2023 
• Here's a link to another of Jasmine's articles - Permaculture Design in Practice in times of crisis. (Here is access to the whole Magazine issue free courtesy of Permaculture Magazine until June 18th 2023 - her article is on pages 45-46)

In our conversation, Jasmine shares a wonderful story about how she discovered permaculture and about how doing a permaculture design course transformed her life.

She also shares insights about being part of the founding group of Lammas - an off-grid ecovillage in wales -  where she cut her teeth as a permaculture educator - and this is where, with her husband, she build the famous hobbit house (which sadly burnt down a few years back).  Jasmine talks about her way of teaching, designing and applying permaculture thinking. 

Right now she mentors community groups with a focus on nature connection and basic skills for resilience.  

Throughout the conversation, Jasmine shares such wonderful tips about writing and what you

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We broadcast from a solar powered studio in the midst of a permaculture ecovillage food forest on beautiful Gubbi Gubbi country. I acknowledge this is and always will be Aboriginal land, pay my respects to elders past and present, and extend my respect to indigenous cultures and knowledge systems across the planet.

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The Sense-Making in a Changing World podcast, hosted by Morag Gamble is an initiative of the Permaculture Education Institute.  We teach permaculture teachers around the world, and host global permaculture conversations and learning communities.  Our Permaculture Life is our  permaculture gardening Youtube channel with hundreds of helpful videos.

I am joined here by the wonderful Pippa Chapman -  author, permaculture designer, forest gardener and mother - based in Yorkshire, who has been gardening for 30 years. In 2007 she left her job as Head Gardener on a private estate, to take a year-long practical apprenticeship at RHS Harlow Carr and then she discovered permaculture and everything changed!

In her (first) book, The Plant Lover’s Backyard Forest Gardenpublished by Permanent Publications, Pippa explores how to grow your own beautiful multilayered food forest in your own backyard.

Pippa explains how to create multiple layers on a small-scale to maximise your growing area, using polycultures and guilds for healthy, low-maintenance food. She shares how to use perennials for structure and for year-round food, and how to incorporate flowers for beauty, wildlife and for the kitchen.

She was introduced to forest gardening and permaculture and in 2010 set up a sustainable gardening business with her husband - Those Plant People.

She grows a wide variety of fruits, flowers, herbs and annual and perennial vegetables in her small backyard, creating a beautiful, edible and wildlife friendly space.

You can find her on instagram and youtube too.

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We broadcast from a solar powered studio in the midst of a permaculture ecovillage food forest on beautiful Gubbi Gubbi country. I acknowledge this is and always will be Aboriginal land, pay my respects to elders past and present, and extend my respect to indigenous cultures and knowledge systems across the planet.

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In this episode of Sense-Making in a Changing World, I am so delighted to be speaking about financial dimensions of permaculture and the new economy with renegade economist and permaculture educator Della Duncan.

Like me, Della has also spent a lot of time at Schumacher College (she completed her MA in Economics for Transition) and she works closely too with Fritjof Capra and his course, the Systems View of Life.  Della also podcasts - her show is Upstream Podcast - check it out in the show notes.

Della Duncan teaches financial permaculture on several Permaculture Design Courses throughout the Bay Area of California, as well as  the Work that Reconnects, following Joana Macy’s work.

Della is also

• a Senior Fellow of Social and Economic Equity at London School of Economics
• a Gross National Happiness Master Trainer
• a founding member of the Doughnut Economics California Coalition (DECC) 
• a Senior Lecturer at the California Institute of Integral Studies and Gaia Education. 

Read more - her article in Kosmos Journal: Cultivating Right Livelihood

Together, Della and I explore the economic dimensions of permaculture. 

Thanks for joining us.

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We broadcast from a solar powered studio in the midst of a permaculture ecovillage food forest on beautiful Gubbi Gubbi country. I acknowledge this is and always will be Aboriginal land, pay my respects to elders past and present, and extend my respect to indigenous cultures and knowledge systems across the planet.

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"What gives me hope is people who have the guts to stand up … like you!"

"There’s an urgency. The earth is in the intensive care unit - acutely ill.  We’ve got nothing to lose, and everything to gain from speaking up."

This episode takes me to the essence of why I do what I do and why I speak up - the peace movement, my love of this planet, the political precariousness in which we dwell and my deep concern for our common future.

Dr Helen Caldicott (from Melbourne near where I grew up)  is the world’s most articulate and passionate advocate of citizen action to remedy the nuclear and environmental crises. 

She practices global preventative medicine and has spent 5 decades educating world leaders, influencers, physicians and communities of the impacts of the nuclear age - nuclear energy, nuclear war and nuclear disasters on the planet, on life, on humanity and the necessary changes in human behaviour to stop environmental destruction.. She's spoken Presidents, Prime Ministers, celebrities - even the Dalai Lama.

At this point in time, she has never been more concerned. She warns that have never been closer to a major nuclear catastrophe at the same time as being in the midst of climate and biodiversity catastrophes.

This is not easy to hear, but we must.  Let it move you, empower you, stoke the fires in your belly and let it rise up.

The Smithsonian named Helen one of the most influential women of the 20th Century.  She taught at Harvard in the 70s and practiced at Children’s hospitals around the world.  In 1980 she resigned and became a planetary physician.

Helen has: 

• written 7 books
• received 21 honorary doctorates
• been the subject of several films including the oscar-winning IF YOU LOVE THIS PLANET
• received multiple awards, and prizes - including the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985 as part of a international network - the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War 

When I was a teenager,   I was deeply motivated by Helen's work. I consider her a catalyst of my lifework. And like her, I am astounded that there is so little media attention while we teeter on the edge of nuclear catastrophe.

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How to teach permaculture?

This is a very special episode - my way of celebrating the late Graham Bell - a tribute to a permaculture elder, pioneer, forest gardener, teacher, mentor, author, father, husband, friend. Graham died in early March 2023 after a brief illness.

I join the permaculture community around the world in acknowledging his enormous contribution to the field of permaculture, and to teaching permaculture teachers. I send my deepest condolences to his family.

Our focus here at the Permaculture Education Institute is about teaching permaculture teachers, and Graham has been teaching for decades too - one of the early pioneers of the movement.  I was keen to talk with him about his insights and experience as an educator. And oh my, what richness is within. I hope you thoroughly enjoy listing to Graham’s story spanning decades and the globe, and his wisdom shared.

I actually recorded this episode late 2022 and had been trying to work out how to edit it - Graham and I talked for almost 2 hours. I thought I needed to edit it to about an hour, but I could simply not work out which stories to leave out. In the end, I have decided to simply share the whole conversation with you.

You can watch this over in our Sense-Making in a Changing World Youtube channel here.

Graham Bell's Books

• THE PERMACULTURE WAY - Practical Steps To Create A Self-Sustaining World
• THE PERMACULTURE GARDEN

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We broadcast from a solar powered studio in the midst of a permaculture ecovillage food forest on beautiful Gubbi Gubbi country. I acknowledge this is and always will be Aboriginal land, pay my respects to elders past and present, and extend my respect to indigenous cultures and knowledge systems across the planet.

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Our housing system is broken, but where do we look for different ways forward and a theory of change?

Come and join me with economist Karl Fitzgerald from Grounded the new Community Land Trust Advocacy (and formerly of Prosper Australia ). 

Karl advocates that a saner future awaits when we focus on a community land housing solution that moves us away from the speculative drive and sprawl. He is dedicated to creating and sharing new models and developing housing futures that are intertwined with the permaculture movement. 

Listen throughout for how Karl cleverly describes this model of community land trusts through the language of permaculture principles, and describes a community-led `affordable housing option. 

So many possibilities presented. Grounded is researching ways forward - to come together. Grow together!

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Karl mentioned:
Community land trust UK
Cornwall CLT
Champlain CLT Vermont 

Karl also mentioned the First Knowledges series of books .

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Welcome to  this Permaculture Writer's Club episode of the Sense-making in a Changing World Podcast hosted Morag Gamble. This series is a chance to explore different forms of permaculture writing and speak with a range of authors and publishers. 

Morag is joined here in this conversation by Robyn Rosenfeldt, founding editor and publisher of Pip Magazine.  Come behind the scenes of PIP Magazine - Australia's permaculture magazine, learn what makes a good article or story, what magazine editors are looking for and ways to approach PIP with your story.

This podcast is an initiative of the Permaculture Education Institute.

Our way of sharing our love for this planet and for life, is by teaching permaculture teachers who are locally adapting this around the world - finding ways to apply the planet care ethics of earth care, people care and fair share. We host global conversations and learning communities on 6 continents.

We teach permaculture teachers, host permaculture courses, host Our Permaculture Life YouTube, and offer free monthly film club and masterclass.

We broadcast from a solar powered studio in the midst of a permaculture ecovillage food forest on beautiful Gubbi Gubbi country. I acknowledge this is and always will be Aboriginal land, pay my respects to elders past and present, and extend my respect to indigenous cultures and knowledge systems across the planet.

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Welcome to a special Permaculture Writer's Club episode of the Sense-making in a Changing World podcast. I am joined by the wonderful permaculture grower, forest gardener, youtuber and author, Liz Zorab who runs Byther Farm with Mr J -  to live a self sufficient, eco friendly life. . She is author of the best-selling book Grounded: A Gardener’s journey to abundance and self-sufficency -  put out by Permanent Publications and is finishing up her second book - the Seasoned Gardener - due out soon.

In this episode, Liz shares how she has created 2 amazing permaculture farms and has healed herself in the process - of how she got going on her successful youtube channel and how she has gone about writing her books. Liz is so generous in her sharing. This conversation is full of practical strategies and ideas from paddock to pen.

The Permaculture Writer's Club and Sense-Making in a Changing World podcast are hosted by the Permaculture Education Institute - teaching permaculture teachers and hosting a global permaculture graduate learning community called the Permaculture Hive.  You can also find lots of practical permaculture videos on my Our Permaculture Life Youtube

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We  acknowledge the traditional custodians of the unceded lands from which we share this podcast with you, the Gubbi Gubbi, and pay my deep respect to their elders past present and emerging. I’d like to recognise their care for this land, the waters, and biodiversity for so many many thousands of years.

Thanks to Kim Kirkman for the music.

This podcast is an initiative of the Permaculture Education Institute.

Our way of sharing our love for this planet and for life, is by teaching permaculture teachers who are locally adapting this around the world - finding ways to apply the planet care ethics of earth care, people care and fair share. We host global conversations and learning communities on 6 continents.

We teach permaculture teachers, host permaculture courses, host Our Permaculture Life YouTube, and offer free monthly film club and masterclass.

We broadcast from a solar powered studio in the midst of a permaculture ecovillage food forest on beautiful Gubbi Gubbi country. I acknowledge this is and always will be Aboriginal land, pay my respects to elders past and present, and extend my respect to indigenous cultures and knowledge systems across the planet.

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Have you ever wanted to become a permaculture writer? Listen in to learn the niches waiting for permaculture writers and insights from our guest's decades of permaculture writing, editing and publishing.

I am delighted to welcome you to a the first of our special Permaculture Writer's Club series on the Sense-making in a Changing World podcast. This podcast is an initiative of the Permaculture Education Institute. We teach permaculture teachers around the world and host global permaculture conversations and learning communities.

Who better to launch the Permaculture Writer's Club with me than Maddy Harland - writer, editor, publisher extraordinaire.  I love when I get the chance to catch up with her.  Maddy is the cofounder and editor of the brilliant 30+ year old Permaculture Magazine and co-founder too of Permanent Publications - THE major contributor of permaculture books in the world. 

Maddy is also an avid beekeeper, no-dig gardener, forest gardener, walker, nature lover and a mother of two amazing daughters. She is a visiting Knowledge Exchange Fellow of the Institute of Theological Partnerships at the University of Winchester in the UK and through her publishing company, a recipient of the Queens Award for entrepreneurship “unfettered dedication to promoting sustainable development internationally.”

Maddy and I talk about what kind of writing we need in permaculture now & how we need more diversity of permaculture writing, more writing about fair share and good writing that opens the conversation about what in the world that is possible - sign posting what the future might look like and describe a diversity of practical climate adaptations for all the different regions of the world, and all different contexts.

Here's where to make a book submission to Permanent Publications.

This podcast is an initiative of the Permaculture Education Institute.

Our way of sharing our love for this planet and for life, is by teaching permaculture teachers who are locally adapting this around the world - finding ways to apply the planet care ethics of earth care, people care and fair share. We host global conversations and learning communities on 6 continents.

We teach permaculture teachers, host permaculture courses, host Our Permaculture Life YouTube, and offer free monthly film club and masterclass.

We broadcast from a solar powered studio in the midst of a permaculture ecovillage food forest on beautiful Gubbi Gubbi country. I acknowledge this is and always will be Aboriginal land, pay my respects to elders past and present, and extend my respect to indigenous cultures and knowledge systems across the planet.

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In the new episode of Morag Gamble’s podcast, Michael Mobbs shares insights from his 50 + years experience living and breathing environmentalism and sustainability.

Starting out as Australia’s first environmental lawyer in 1978, Michael went on to create an off-grid home for his family in the 1990s – right in the heart of Sydney. His passion for sustainability led him to write two books: Sustainable House, and, Sustainable Food.

Michael’s off-grid home is featured in Zac Efron’s latest season of Down to Earth on Netflix, and a model of the home is on display in the Powerhouse Museum Sydney. (here's a link to the trailer - Michael is featured in the Eco-Innovators episode)

As for the need for climate action, now? Michael says:

“The best way through (the climate crisis) is by consuming food that you grow or buying locally grown. And when you grow food, do so with the compost that you create from your food waste. There's no such thing as waste, just a failure of imagination. Don't be without imagination – be with compost, be with the soil, be with plants.”

The Sustainable House website with Michael Mobbs
Sustainable House Book by Michael Mobbs
Sustainable Food Book by Michael Mobbs

This podcast is an initiative of the Permaculture Education Institute.

Our way of sharing our love for this planet and for life, is by teaching permaculture teachers who are locally adapting this around the world - finding ways to apply the planet care ethics of earth care, people care and fair share. We host global conversations and learning communities on 6 continents.

We teach permaculture teachers, host permaculture courses, host Our Permaculture Life YouTube, and offer free monthly film club and masterclass.

We broadcast from a solar powered studio in the midst of a permaculture ecovillage food forest on beautiful Gubbi Gubbi country. I acknowledge this is and always will be Aboriginal land, pay my respects to elders past and present, and extend my respect to indigenous cultures and knowledge systems across the planet.

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This episode of Sense-Making in a Changing World is the final of our 5 part Urban Agriculture series released during Urban Agriculture Month in November 2022.

Here, Morag Gamble is joined by Chris Smyth, a coordinator of Community Gardens Australia (WA). They talk about the gardens he co-founded on the Murdoch University Campus, as well as the community gardening movement around the country.

Chris, a retired Assoc. Professor and Dean of the School of Media Communication & Culture at Murdoch University, was able to assist students negotiating the university landscape to enable this garden to happen, and link many of the faculties to the project.

Community gardens and city farms are places where people come together to grow fresh food, to learn, relax and make new friends.

Community Gardens Australia connects and celebrates the growing movement of  city farms and community garden around Australia. It is a community-based organisation linking people interested in city farming and community gardening with each other and other projects. 

Morag was a founder of this organisation back in the 1990s with just a few dozen projects. Now there are hundreds of active projects. The resources on the website are vast and a go-to place if you are interested in starting a new garden.  All the local coordinators in each state and region are volunteers and love to hear from those wanting to create projects, or from projects that need help. 

Urban Agriculture Month
This special Urban Agriculture series on Sense-Making in a Changing World is brought to you by the Permaculture Education Institute in collaboration with Sustain Australia - celebrating growing food in cities and towns for Urban Agriculture Month.

Podcast Host: Morag Gamble
Urban Agriculture Month Ambassador, Morag Gamble, founder of Permaculture Education Institute & teacher of permaculture teachers, is a passionate advocate for urban permaculture and has been deeply involved in creating, supporting and networking projects and programs for 30 years on 5 continents.  She is cofounder of Northey Street City

This podcast is an initiative of the Permaculture Education Institute.

Our way of sharing our love for this planet and for life, is by teaching permaculture teachers who are locally adapting this around the world - finding ways to apply the planet care ethics of earth care, people care and fair share. We host global conversations and learning communities on 6 continents.

We teach permaculture teachers, host permaculture courses, host Our Permaculture Life YouTube, and offer free monthly film club and masterclass.

We broadcast from a solar powered studio in the midst of a permaculture ecovillage food forest on beautiful Gubbi Gubbi country. I acknowledge this is and always will be Aboriginal land, pay my respects to elders past and present, and extend my respect to indigenous cultures and knowledge systems across the planet.

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In this episode of Sense-Making in a Changing World, host Morag Gamble speaks with Buttons Testa - the creator of The Mushroomery - a micro mushroom farm she set up in her Brunswick backyard in Naarm (Melbourne) in a 10m2 growing space.

The little farm supplies two restaurants and a farm gate from time to time with tasty oyster mushrooms. She is influenced by the ethics and principles of permaculture. She is working on closing multiple loops of waste within her farm. Being a massive foodie she is keen on making farming more visible in the city to create better understanding around food within the urban bubble.

Buttons is also inspired to spread the knowledge of how mushrooms grow and what wonderful benefits they can have for yours and the environments health. Fungi is on the precipice of solving many earthly problems from waste to health.

Buttons also loves to show how much food can be grown on small marginal plots of land in the inner city. She believes that we will need to localise our food systems in order to transition to a low-energy sustainable future. 

This is part 4 of our 5 part  Urban Agriculture podcast series celebrating Urban Agriculture Month (Nov 2022)

Urban Agriculture Month
This special Urban Agriculture series on Sense-Making in a Changing World is brought to you by the Permaculture Education Institute in collaboration with Sustain Australia - celebrating growing food in cities and towns for Urban Agriculture Month.

Podcast Host: Morag Gamble
Urban Agriculture Month Ambassador, Morag Gamble, founder of Permaculture Education Institute & teacher of permaculture teachers, is a passionate advocate for urban permaculture and has been deeply involved in creating, supporting and networking projects and programs for 30 years on 5 continents.  She is cofounder of Northey Street City Farm in Brisbane and the Australian Community Gardens Network. Her blog and youtube channel include loads of urban permaculture content and this podcast features many urban agriculture pioneers.

This podcast is an initiative of the Permaculture Education Institute.

Our way of sharing our love for this planet and for life, is by teaching permaculture teachers who are locally adapting this around the world - finding ways to apply the planet care ethics of earth care, people care and fair share. We host global conversations and learning communities on 6 continents.

We teach permaculture teachers, host permaculture courses, host Our Permaculture Life YouTube, and offer free monthly film club and masterclass.

We broadcast from a solar powered studio in the midst of a permaculture ecovillage food forest on beautiful Gubbi Gubbi country. I acknowledge this is and always will be Aboriginal land, pay my respects to elders past and present, and extend my respect to indigenous cultures and knowledge systems across the planet.

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Landscape Architect and urban farmer, Hilary Hoggett - President of Fawkner Food Bowls in Naarm (Melbourne) -  takes  us on a journey into hyper local food systems.

This is part 3 of our 5 part  Urban Agriculture podcast series celebrating Urban Agriculture Month (Nov 2022)

Fawkner Food Bowls is a community market garden which grows herbs, vegetables, and seedlings for their very local area. They work with volunteers and community members providing culturally relevant food in a thriving growing space where community can learn about urban food growing through sustainable and regenerative growing practices. They strive to address local food security through growing and distributing food, support social cohesion within their diverse community, and build community resilience in the face of climate change.

Fawkner Food Bowls started with two local residents who wanted to grow food on a larger scale than their front yards AND find a family-friendly place to relax, enjoy and meet other locals. Their ideas was supported first by the Fawkner Bowling Club and also by The Neighbourhood Project, an urban placemaking initiative of CoDesign Studio - and it has grown from strength to strength - particularly meeting local food and community needs during the long lock-downs in Melbourne. 

Urban Agriculture Month
This special Urban Agriculture series on Sense-Making in a Changing World is brought to you by the Permaculture Education Institute in collaboration with Sustain Australia - celebrating growing food in cities and towns for Urban Agriculture Month.

Podcast Host: Morag Gamble
Urban Agriculture Month Ambassador, Morag Gamble, founder of Permaculture Education Institute & teacher of permaculture teachers, is a passionate advocate for urban permaculture and has been deeply involved in creating, supporting and networking projects and programs for 30 years on 5 continents.  She is cofounder of Northey Street City Farm in Brisbane and the Australian Community Gardens Network. Her blog and

This podcast is an initiative of the Permaculture Education Institute.

Our way of sharing our love for this planet and for life, is by teaching permaculture teachers who are locally adapting this around the world - finding ways to apply the planet care ethics of earth care, people care and fair share. We host global conversations and learning communities on 6 continents.

We teach permaculture teachers, host permaculture courses, host Our Permaculture Life YouTube, and offer free monthly film club and masterclass.

We broadcast from a solar powered studio in the midst of a permaculture ecovillage food forest on beautiful Gubbi Gubbi country. I acknowledge this is and always will be Aboriginal land, pay my respects to elders past and present, and extend my respect to indigenous cultures and knowledge systems across the planet.

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This episode is all about keeping bees in our backyards. This is part of our 5 part  Urban Agriculture podcast series celebrating Urban Agriculture Month (Nov 2022). 

My guest today is Amanda Collins of Ballarat Backyard Beehives and member of the Ballarat Permaculture Guild. Amanda and her partner Scott became accidental beekeepers ten years ago after being gifted a hive and falling in love with the bees.

Since then, their passion for beekeeping has grown into a small apiary of 80 hives, delivering beekeeping courses and undertaking formalised training in beekeeping, training and assessment and Agribusiness. 

Amanda is the founder of HiveMind Community Apiary, a community apiary established to provide beekeeper training for people at risk of living with a mental illness. The couple are strongly connected to their local community and are advocates for urban farming, verge gardening and sustainability. 

Urban Agriculture Month
This special Urban Agriculture series on Sense-Making in a Changing World is brought to you by the Permaculture Education Institute in collaboration with Sustain Australia - celebrating growing food in cities and towns for Urban Agriculture Month.

Podcast Host: Morag Gamble
Morag Gamble, founder of Permaculture Education Institute & teacher of permaculture teachers, is a passionate advocate for urban permaculture and has been deeply involved in creating, supporting and networking projects and programs for 30 years on 5 continents.  She is cofounder of Northey Street City Farm in Brisbane and the Australian Community Gardens Network. Her blog and youtube channel include loads of urban permaculture content and this podcast features many urban agriculture pioneers.

This podcast is an initiative of the Permaculture Education Institute.

Our way of sharing our love for this planet and for life, is by teaching permaculture teachers who are locally adapting this around the world - finding ways to apply the planet care ethics of earth care, people care and fair share. We host global conversations and learning communities on 6 continents.

We teach permaculture teachers, host permaculture courses, host Our Permaculture Life YouTube, and offer free monthly film club and masterclass.

We broadcast from a solar powered studio in the midst of a permaculture ecovillage food forest on beautiful Gubbi Gubbi country. I acknowledge this is and always will be Aboriginal land, pay my respects to elders past and present, and extend my respect to indigenous cultures and knowledge systems across the planet.

You can also watch Sense-Making in a Changing World on youtube.

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Welcome to this special Urban Agriculture  podcast series celebrating Urban Agriculture Month (Nov 2022). My first guest is Jacqui Besgrove of Pocket City Farms in central Sydney. Back in 2015, they began the transformation of a disused bowling green into a wonderfully thriving community food hub, and they want to contribute to urban farming becoming a normal part of our society and urban fabric.

Local sustainable food production close to where the bulk of our population live - and can connect with and learn from - is integral in securing a healthy future for our communities and our planet. Pocket City Farm is about growing local and organic produce, providing education about food and farming, and creating community connection through being a welcoming place full of fabulous programs.

Links:

• https://www.pocketcityfarms.com.au/
• https://www.pocketcityfarms.com.au/events
• https://www.facebook.com/pocketcityfarms
• https://www.instagram.com/pocketcityfarms/
• https://www.linkedin.com/company/pocket-city-farms

Guest: Jacqui Besgrove

Jacqui Besgrove  is COO at Pocket City Farms and has over 10 years experience working as a permaculture designer as ¼ of Permablitz the Gong!, through her own private consulting practice Earthrise Permaculture and has experience applying permaculture design principles to social enterprise settings with her work at Green Connect. She leads Restorative Ecologies: Permaculture Principles and Practice as part of the UNSW Master of Environmental Management program. She is passionate about urban solutions and promoting permaculture principles and practice within our cities and suburbs to increase resilience and show how much fun radical downshifting can be.

Podcast Host: Morag Gamble
Morag Gamble, founder of Permaculture Education Institute & teacher of permaculture teachers, is a passionate advocate for urban permaculture and has been deeply involved in creating, supporting and netw

This podcast is an initiative of the Permaculture Education Institute.

Our way of sharing our love for this planet and for life, is by teaching permaculture teachers who are locally adapting this around the world - finding ways to apply the planet care ethics of earth care, people care and fair share. We host global conversations and learning communities on 6 continents.

We teach permaculture teachers, host permaculture courses, host Our Permaculture Life YouTube, and offer free monthly film club and masterclass.

We broadcast from a solar powered studio in the midst of a permaculture ecovillage food forest on beautiful Gubbi Gubbi country. I acknowledge this is and always will be Aboriginal land, pay my respects to elders past and present, and extend my respect to indigenous cultures and knowledge systems across the planet.

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Seventeen years ago, Rob Pekin decided to radicalise the way we shop for and distribute fresh food. His concept for a new food system was based on community, connection and localisation – and the result is an Australian-wide food systems revolution called Food Connect

Born and bred on a dairy farm in western Victoria, Rob began to imagine a different kind of food system after he lost the family farm and fell into a depression.

“The food connect model started out as a multi-farmer community-supported agriculture project. It was really my attempt as a pretty busted-up dairy farmer, disgruntled with the world and how it worked, saying – well, if I’m going to do something on a solutions side of things, I have to address probably the biggest source of misuse of power, which is in the distribution side of things.”

In the latest episode of the Sense-making in a Changing World podcast, I chat with Rob about his journey and the Food Connect vision.  Hear more in this earlier interview with Rob's partner and Food Connect co-creator, Emma Kate Rose. (interviewed on Episode 14)

What they’ve created is an is an inspiring  highly networked localised ethical and regenerative  food system -  one that nourishes growers, consumers, producers, the earth and foregrounds indigenous voices.

Before we begin, I'd like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the unceded lands from which I’m speaking with you, the Gubbi Gubbi, and pay my deep respect to their elders past present and emerging. I’d like to recognise care for country, the waters and biodiversity for millenia.

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This podcast is supported by the Permaculture Education Institute.

Thanks to Rhiannon Gamble for editing, and Kim Kirkman for the introductory music.

This podcast is an initiative of the Permaculture Education Institute.

Our way of sharing our love for this planet and for life, is by teaching permaculture teachers who are locally adapting this around the world - finding ways to apply the planet care ethics of earth care, people care and fair share. We host global conversations and learning communities on 6 continents.

We teach permaculture teachers, host permaculture courses, host Our Permaculture Life YouTube, and offer free monthly film club and masterclass.

We broadcast from a solar powered studio in the midst of a permaculture ecovillage food forest on beautiful Gubbi Gubbi country. I acknowledge this is and always will be Aboriginal land, pay my respects to elders past and present, and extend my respect to indigenous cultures and knowledge systems across the planet.

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The topic of ethical fashion is in the media this week because the annual Ethical Fashion Guide has been released. But can fashion ever be ethical?

My guest on this week’s Sense-making in a Changing World podcast is Shannon Lohr – a leader in the ethical fashion world.

Shannon’s career is defined by her efforts to change the fashion industry, promoting a sustainable approach focused on local production, quality materials and timeless designs. She believes how we dress ourselves is connected to the health of the planet.

“There is no such thing as perfectly sustainable fashion. Anytime you're making something new, it's going to have an impact,” Shannon says. “It doesn't matter if you make your clothing with organic cotton if landfill is still overflowing with clothing. The real problem is the culture and marketing system that the fast fashion industry uses which tells consumers: buy a dress, wear it that night, throw it to the back of your closet and never wear it again or put it in the trash. That’s what creates an inherently unsustainable fashion industry.” 

Shannon is the founder and director of Factory45 – an online business school that helps sustainable fashion entrepreneurs consider fashion design and manufacturing in a closed loop way. That means considering the life cycle of a garment beyond its immediate use and what the customer will do with it when they’re done wearing it.

She’s also a strong advocate for increasing supply chain transparency through sourcing, localisation and storytelling. She’s been named a thought leader for the future of fashion and was nominated as a “Woman of Note” by the Wall Street Journal.

This podcast is an initiative of the Permaculture Education Institute.

Our way of sharing our love for this planet and for life, is by teaching permaculture teachers who are locally adapting this around the world - finding ways to apply the planet care ethics of earth care, people care and fair share. We host global conversations and learning communities on 6 continents.

We teach permaculture teachers, host permaculture courses, host Our Permaculture Life YouTube, and offer free monthly film club and masterclass.

We broadcast from a solar powered studio in the midst of a permaculture ecovillage food forest on beautiful Gubbi Gubbi country. I acknowledge this is and always will be Aboriginal land, pay my respects to elders past and present, and extend my respect to indigenous cultures and knowledge systems across the planet.

You can also watch Sense-Making in a Changing World on youtube.

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