Thank you and Merry Christmas to everyone who’s responded so positively to the writings and films I’ve been posting on Our Permaculture Life – on this Blog, on Youtube and Facebook,

After decades of ‘just doing it’, I was encouraged a year ago to start writing about our permaculture way of life and have received such amazing feedback both in person and online. It is so uplifting to know so many people are interested in living a simple &natural way of life.

I so enjoy receiving the comments you write, and participating in discussions about the various topics. I’d love your suggestions too (please fill in the v.quick survey below).

The ripple effect of our actions, our words, our thoughts – our work and the way we choose to live – is profound. It’s so important to be thinking about change – exploring the possibilities and taking positive, practical steps.

16 POPULAR POSTS FROM ‘OUR PERMACULTURE LIFE’

1. My Permaculture Garden – a 30 minute tour of my award-winning garden, plus list of species.
2. Morag’s Simple and Successful No Dig Garden Method – a step by step guide (film coming soon)
3. How to Make Comfrey Tea – a super easy natural homemade fertiliser
4. Worm Towers – a quick and easy way to turn food waste into garden fertiliser – without digging or turning. and Worm Tower Film Clip – a superbly simple way to put your foodsraps back in the soil
5. 7 Ways to Use All of Your Pumpkin Plant – simple abundance
6. City as Farm: City Dwellers Love to Grow Food – weaving food growing into the cities
7. Ingeniously Simple Idea to Harvest Compost Worms By 8 Year Old Boy – innovative thinking from my young home educated son.
8. Temporary permaculture for renters – 11 ideas for growing abundant food without owning land
9. Live simply: 14 Ways to Save Money and Avoid Debt – practical and common-sense advice
10. Save over $23,000 a Year and De-stress with a Few Simple Living Strategies
11. Five Easy Steps to Make Cheap Beeswax Wraps & Reduce Cling Wrap Use – make your own beeswax cloths in minutes for less than a dollar.
12. Five Simple Ways to Improve Your Soil – having great soil is the basis of healthy plants and food.
13. Did you know our clothes are poisoning us? More Reasons to Choose Simple Natural Fashion for Earth Care and People Care – it’s good to know the backstory to where many of our ‘things’ come from
14. 27,000 Trees A Day to Wipe Bottoms – What’s Your Wipe of Choice? – taking a closer look at a  very common household consumable
15. Why I Let My Young Children Leave School To Learn At Home… an introduction to the way I home educate my children
16. 9 Ways to Simply Use Chia: an easy ‘superfood’ to grow at home – great ways to grow and use chia, and some yummy recipes too.

PLEASE SEND YOUR SUGGESTIONS AND FEEDBACK

I’d love to get your feedback and suggestions about the topics you enjoy most and those you’d like me to write and film more about. Either leave a comment at the bottom of this post or click on this survey monkey link – it should take less than a minute to complete.

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Bill Mollison (1928 – 2016)

612 ABC Radio: Morag Gamble in Conversation with Sarah Howells 

The topics we explore in this 25 minute conversation are:

• Remembering Bill Mollison
  (http://our-permaculture-life.blogspot.com.au/2016/09/thank-you-for-permaculture-bill.html)
• Fighting off the Flu the Permaculture Way
  (http://our-permaculture-life.blogspot.com.au/2016/09/home-grown-medicine-10-common-medicinal.html)
• Waste in the fashion industry and the environmental impact of synthetic clothes
  (http://our-permaculture-life.blogspot.com.au/2016/09/did-you-know-our-clothes-are-poisoning.html)
• Playing with Natural Dyes
  (http://our-permaculture-life.blogspot.com.au/2016/09/chemical-free-clothes-easy-diy-natural.html)
• Sustainable Clothing

“When the dreaded lurgy heads for your house, and the kids start sniffling, coughing, and sneezing, do you reach straight for the medicine cabinet? Or do you, instead, take a wander down the garden path, picking plants and leaves as you go, to make up a brew?

Morag Gamble from Our Permaculture Life would probably choose the latter option, and she joins us tonight to tell us why!”

Now that I’ve recovered from the ‘lurgy’, I’ve had a wonderful couple of days offering tours of my garden and organising a Young Ethos Scholars program – a masterclass for children in writing and theatre with a sustainability focus. I’m getting ready now for a workshop making salves and other natural healing and beauty products from my garden.  It’s going to be so much fun.

Northey Street City Farm’s permaculture design course students visited my garden this week. I love having the urban-rural connection between city farm and our place. (Photo: Emma Brindal)

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