Would you like to grow fresh healthy food for your family and community in this time of the global COVID-19 crisis?
The uncertainty we are all presented with over the next months provides a strong impetus to really get your permaculture garden started, and to make existing ones even more thriving.
To help you do this, I have compiled this selection of youtube clips, masterclasses and blogposts that I know will help you get started and add diversity, resilience and abundance. There are examples here for small and large gardens, for beginners and established gardeners, and from these starting points you can launch into the hundreds of other resources available in the Our Permaculture Life Blog and Youtube
Enjoy and please share widely! Happy gardening, seed trading, crop sharing!
I hope you stay safe and well, and fall in love with your abundant food garden, and continue on with it once things settle again. 😉
Morag Gamble
- Permaculture Education Institute – Online Permaculture Educators Program (Permaculture Design Certificate and Permaculture Teacher Certificate)
- Our Permaculture Life (Permaculture Blog and Online Permaculture Gardening Course)
- Ethos Foundation (Permaculture Charity supporting women and youth in the global south)
OUR PERMACULTURE LIFE YOUTUBE
Masterclass 23: A permaculture response to COVID-19
In this time of crisis with COVID-19, I put together a clear a guide for getting food growing quickly in your household and neighbourhood, and ways to cultivating community and supplement your income with permaculture.
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12 Tips for a Thriving Edible Garden
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How to Make a No-Dig Garden
Create living soil and a thriving garden using this method I have tried and tested in so many environments over the past 30 years. Use what you have around you to make this – no need for expensive edgings and infrastructure. There is a special twist in this garden method that makes it different from most other no-dig garden explanations you’ve ever seen. [/one_third][one_third_last]
Compost Simply
This is one of the simplest ways I’ve found to create compost in and around my permaculture garden without all the heavy lifting. Move your compost bin,[/one_third_last]
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How to Make a Worm Tower
This film shows you how to create a low-maintenance worm farm in the middle of your garden so the nutrients directly feed the soil and activate living soil, while the worms are happier in an earth-moderated stable temperature home. Simple for you. Good for the worms! No expensive worm farm set-up either.[/one_third][one_third]
5 Easy Ways to Propagate Edible Plants
You don’t need to spend a fortune on filling your garden with a diversity of edible perennials – plants that can keep you and your family well fed. Get one plant going, then take cuttings to spread it around your garden and your neighbours. Learn all the basic skills you’ll need here.[/one_third][one_third_last]
10 Great Plants for a Permaculture Garden
Here are 10 of my favourite plants in my permaculture garden that provide food, medicine, fibre, compost, mulch materials and more. I always start with these. If you are in a warm climate this will work for you too. In a cool climate, some of these still work, but you can also find other plants with similar qualities.[/one_third_last]
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Easy Leafy Greens
These self-seeding and perennial leafy greens grow by themselves. They are low maintenance, robust plants that are relatively drought tolerant and have few pest problems. I fill my garden will an abundance of these plants, and others like them, so I always have fresh nutrient-dense plants whatever the season. I rarely plant any annual greens because these are so easy and provide so much food.[/one_third][one_third]
Growing Turmeric
Turmeric is such an easy plant to grow in warmer climates and is something recommended we eat every day. A great plant to keep our immune system strong, and an excellent one to take when we have a cough or cold. This film shows how to grow, harvest, store and use turmeric.[/one_third][one_third_last]
My medicinal garden
A permaculture kitchen garden has more than just food. It’s full of medicinal plants too for so many daily uses. Walk with me through my garden as I explore many of the the common plants I use for maintaining good health, and helping when I am feeling run down.[/one_third_last]
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Masterclass 16: Small scale kitchen garden – the permaculture way
You don’t have to have a big space to create a permaculture garden, or even any land at all. In this masterclass I share many ways you can make the best use of small spaces to create a wonderful edible oasis.[/one_third][one_third_last] [/one_third_last]
OUR PERMACULTURE LIFE BLOG
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How to Make a No Dig Garden
This blog accompanies the no-dig garden method above, and gives you an illustrated step-by-step guide to setting up your garden using my method. I use this all the time – on new gardens, on established ones, with children, with community gardens, in small scale gardens and raised beds too. I’ve made and planted these gardens, then gone away for around 2 months to do permaculture service work. With no watering and no weeding, I am always amazed when I come back how much food is thriving. Give it a try![/one_third][one_third]
No Dig Gardening with Charles Dowding, Steph Hafferty and Morag Gamble
Perhaps you are thinking of turning your small acreage, or backyard into a small market garden. Come walking with me in Charles Dowding’s fabulous no-dig market garden in England. Check out the great books that he and Steph Hafferty have written. So many tips here![/one_third][one_third_last]
Balcony Permaculture. Morag Gamble visits Natalie Topa’s Apartment Farm in Nairobi.
Do you live in an apartment and wondering what kind of permaculture garden you can create? Be totally inspired by Natalie Topa’s 5th floor permaculture farm in Nairobi! This is incredible.[/one_third_last]
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Cool Climate Permaculture. Morag Gamble explores Angie Polkey’s Welsh Permaculture Garden
Join me as I wander through Angie Polkey’s permaculture 20 year old permaculture garden in Wales. So many tips and ideas for people living in cool and moist parts of the world.
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7 Great Health Benefits of Fresh Olive Leaf tea – free from your tree!
Olive trees are popular plants in edible gardens and are so versatile because the are hardy and grow well in pots. You may or may not get many olives from it, but you can always grab a handful of leaves and make an excellent brew of tea – a great alternative to green tea. Read on for the benefits of drinking olive leaf tea.[/one_third][one_third_last]
Pumpkin Greens: Harvest a Leafy Abundance
Did you know that every part of the pumpkin and pumpkin plant are edible? Why wait for the pumpkin to ripen. You can start eating as soon as those tendrils start moving across your garden – the shoots, the leaves, the flowers are all great food. I always add pumpkin leaves to stir-fry, soup, quiche etc – anything that you are looking for spinach or silverbeet. A quick steam will also turn it into a lovely green wrap.[/one_third_last]
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5 Ways to Use Pomegranate Leaves for Food, Tea and Good Health
Food is everywhere. There are over 30,000 edible plants, yet around 60% of what we eat from supermarkets comes from just 3 plants (wheat, rice, corn). Here’s one you may not have heard before – the young leaves of the hardy pomegranate shrub.[/one_third][one_third]
Morag Gamble’s Super Pesto Recipe Using Simple Garden Greens
Pesto doesn’t just have to be basil. How can you make pesto from the variety of greens you can find in and around your garden, and even use your garlic chives to replace garlic too. This is YUM![/one_third][one_third_last]
Think Global: Eat Local – Community Food Systems
An oldie but a goodie. I made this 15 minute film about community food systems after setting up many projects, researching international examples and interviewing my learned friends. The photos and footage are taken over 15 years. The examples included come from 15 countries and focus too locally on the many local food systems here in my town of Maleny, QLD. This film is a great discussion starter to share with a group – to explore ways to get local community systems going in your neighbourhood.[/one_third_last]
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Permaculture Food Forest Tour with Jenny Allen and Morag Gamble
Join me as I walk through my good friend’s permaculture oasis – a 20 year old food forest near Maleny just dripping with food and creating an enormous habitat for wildlife and creating a beautiful habitat for the humans who live there too.[/one_third][one_third]
Permaculture Books: A selection
Now, while we are more home-based, it’s a great time to catch up on some good reading. Here is a selections of some really great permaculture books. Of course there are so many more. I’ll share those in a future post.[/one_third][one_third_last]
Five Easy Steps to Make Cheap Beeswax Wraps with Morag Gamble
For something to do indoors, to reduce plastic waste and keep your bowls of leftovers fresh, here’s a very simple and cheap way to make your own beeswax wraps. Make lots and share![/one_third_last]
TAKING IT A STEP FURTHER
Online Permaculture Courses
- The Incredible Edible Garden – practical permaculture gardening course
- Permaculture Educators Program – comprehensive Permaculture Design Certificate and Permaculture Teacher Certificate, plus permaculture business modules. Make permaculture your way of life and livelihood too. This program is equivalent of the first year of your permaculture diploma.
For more information, feel free to contact me on: morag@permacultureeducationinstitute.org