Permaculture Podcast: Permaculture, Life and Citizen Design

Dan Palmer and I had a wonderful chat recently on his permaculture podcast, Making Permaculture Stronger.

About the permaculture podcast interview

What a wide-ranging conversation including:

how I came to permaculture
who and what inspires me
how permaculture shapes my life
how I approach permaculture design
my approach to community permaculture design on the ‘commons’ – a process I call Citizen Design – communities designing together, for community, in community – edible, sustainable placemaking on common land. I have recently contributed a chapter about this in a new book soon to be published by the University of Western Australia Press (more about that when it is available).

Permaculture Educators’ Program

We also chat about the Permaculture Education Institute and the new online Permaculture Educators’ Program I have launched. This is a comprehensive online program that weaves together a Permaculture Design Certificate and a Permaculture Teacher Certificate. This is a self-paced and flexible way of learning permaculture about creating not just a permaculture way of life, but a permaculture livelihood too. I am accepting students at any time during the year.

About Dan Palmer

I hope you enjoy this permaculture podcast interview. I had known of and respected Dan Palmers’s work for a long time – particular with his community based permaculture work with Permablitz and as a designer (Very Edible Gardens). So, finally it’s been a great pleasure to get to know Dan in person after meeting at the Australasian Permaculture Convergence in Canberra in April. You can follow Dan’s podcast, but also connect in with his work around Holistic Design Making and Living Design Process.

The permaculture podcast link

Morag Gamble on Permaculture, Life, and Citizen Design (E13)

About the Author

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.