Cool Climate Permaculture: Morag Gamble Explores Angie Polkey's Welsh Permaculture Garden

What does a 20 year old cool climate permaculture property look like?

New Film on my Youtube Channel: Cool Climate Permaculture

Take a look at my recent film to find out how Angie and Andy Polkey in Wales have successfully created an abundant, diverse and regenerative permaculture system.

My family and I recently had the great pleasure of staying almost a week with my friend Angie Polkey and her husband Andy in their permaculture oasis in Ceredigion, west Wales.

Permaculture in West Wales

Angie and Andy are both active in the Lampeter Permaculture Group, and Transition Lampeter , and are ecologists. Angie teaches permaculture at places like the Centre For Alternative Technology and was for many years leading programs at Denmark Farm Conservation Centre has permaculture taught in Uganda too. We met back in 2000 when Evan and I were doing a permaculture and community garden speaking and research tour in the UK.

During our stay, Angie and I went for a wander and chat through their gardens. It was a cool spring afternoon in April.

What’s in this Cool Climate Permaculture film

Learn about the strategies Angie and Andy have used to create this beautiful abundant garden in this cool climate.

As we wander through her garden we explore:

permaculture design
water harvesting and management
soil improvement
cool climate permaculture strategies
food forests
forest regeneration
ecological restoration
community permaculture
and much more…

Watch More about Angie’s garden

Also see Angie on the TV program ‘Under the Sun‘ from 2012

WWOOF hosts

If you are keen to learn about permaculture in Wales, Angie and Andy are registered WWOOF hosts.

Thanks Angie for a wonderful stay and for all that you do!!!

What’s your experience in cool climate permaculture?

What are your favourite permaculture plants and strategies for creating abundance in cooler climates? We’d love to hear what makes your cool climate edible landscapes thrive.

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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.

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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Cool Climate Permaculture: Morag Gamble Explores Angie Polkey’s Welsh Permaculture Garden