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Start a garden and grow food for free with Morag Gamble and Huw Richards

Posted by Morag Gamble on March 14, 2020 in gardening | 6772 Views

While we are all more home-based to help contain the spread of COVID-19, it’s the perfect time to start or improve your garden and learn how to grow healthy food for free – for your household and to share with others.

Growing food for free in our gardens, streets and communities is so liberating – accessing an abundance of healthy natural food that is grown in ways that:

  • supports health and wellbeing
  • supports the regeneration of soil & habitats
  • widens access to real food in times of need
  • nurtures positive community connection
  • re-invigorates the local community economy

Access to fresh food is so important to keep us healthy, and food harvest fresh in your compost-fed healthy soil is going to be more nutrient dense  … and it doesn’t need to be expensive.

Gourmet food straight from your garden can be an everyday thing.

Be inspired to get your garden flourishing now while you have more time, while the need is higher, and keep it up as a positive part of your life as a daily form of

  • earth care, people care, fair share
  • connecting with nature
  • moving meditation
  • activism for healthy soils and a safe climate

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Recently in Wales, I visited an extraordinary young man, Huw Richards, who is passionate about sharing the skills and blankenthusiasm for growing good food at home. He has a hugely popular Youtube Channel that he started when he was 12 (!!!), and he’s already is the author of 2 books – the bestselling Veg in One Bed and recently released, Grow Food For Free. He is a wonderful teacher, speaker, leader and a member of his local permaculture group.

 

Watch my walkabout with Huw

As we wandered together through his fabulous garden in the Welsh countryside, he shared gardening tips, but we also talked about how he’s made this way of life his livelihood too.  You can watch the film below.

Huw is an inspiration and I encourage you to share this video with young people everywhere.

17  Zero-Cost Garden Hacks

To find out a little more about the gardening tips you’ll find in Huw’s recent book, Grow Food For Free – take a look at this recent film from his youtube channel.

Learn Permaculture to design and grow food for free.

Inspired to learn more about permaculture and would love to become a permaculture teacher? Join me in the Permaculture Educators Program. You can start anytime and take as long as you need. Click the link to find out more.

Kitchen Garden in a Small Space

If you only have a small space to get your garden going, there are lots of tips for getting started in this masterclass.

Small Space Kitchen Garden The Permaculture Way – Masterclass with Morag Gamble

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About the Author

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Morag Gamble

MORAG GAMBLE Blog is an award-winning Australian permaculture designer, speaker, author, blogger, film-maker and teacher. She creates the popular Our Permaculture Life Blog and YouTube channel, offers online permaculture education – The Incredible Edible Garden and the Permaculture Educators Program, a combined Permaculture Design Certificate and Permaculture Teacher Certificate.

Morag is the founder and Executive Director of the Permaculture Education Institute and runs a small permaculture charity, Ethos Foundation. Each month she also offers free online monthly masterclasses.

Morag is an urban permaculture pioneer and cofounder of the Australian City Farms and Community Gardens Network and Northey Street City Farm in Brisbane.

Morag offers a wealth of knowledge of all things permaculture and has taught in 22 countries – she is always teaching and sharing. Morag’s natural habitat is her award-winning edible landscape at Crystal Waters Ecovillage.

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Morag Gamble


Morag Gamble

My name is Morag Gamble and I am living and working a permaculture life. I live an ‘Off-the-Grid’ lifestyle in a permaculture village near Maleny in the subtropical part of southeast Queensland, Australia with my husband and 3 young children.

We designed and built our modular eco-home – with much appreciated help from my family. We are mortgage-free and live simply. Our income is derived from permaculture-related activities. We grow a lot of vegetables, herbs and fruit in the polycultural garden-playground surrounding our home. We collect our water, deal with our wastewater on-site and produce most of our own power.

I love this way of living and I love bringing my children up in this environment. They are Nature Kids and they are learning vital skills for resilience, compassion and future problem solving through our ecological unschooling approach.

I am also passionate about how this way of life can make a positive contribution to society and support ecological regeneration.

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