Permaculture Project Update - Our Permaculture Life

I am always amazed and inspired by the permaculture projects I hear about locally and around the world, and to learn how each of these are making a positive contribution to earth care and people care. I’m also always looking for new ways to share permaculture more widely. This is a recording of my first livestream (30 mins) updating about many of the things I am working on and being inspired by.

Originally this livestream was meant just for my Patreon supporters (https://www.patreon.com/moraggamble) however I was encouraged by one of my Patreons to share this update more widely. I’m glad he did, because I’d love you to hear about all the great work that is happening and hopefully widen the support for the local and international permaculture projects I mention. Perhaps you’d like to become a Patreon too.

I also want you to know that I am very happy for you to share my blog posts, masterclasses and films as widely as you like (for personal and education purposes). These are intended as free and accessible materials that are available for people wanting to take practical and positive action in their home, garden, school and neighbourhood.

My key websites are:

Our Permaculture Life Blog – around 500 articles, over 2 million pageviews

Our Permaculture Life Youtube Channel – 23,000 subscribers, almost 1 million views (no ads!)

Permaculture Education Institute: New online permaculture design and teacher program. Scholarships also open for refugees, displaced people, indigenous communities, women in rural villages in the ‘global south’ (contact me directly).

Our Permacuture Life Patreon : from just $1/week you can support the development of more freely accessible materials. I’m so keen to get the podcast up and running.

In this livestream, I mention:

The Tropical Permaculture Guidebook
Retrosuburbia by David Holmgren , also My interview with David
Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe – award-winning Indigenous author
Bruce Pascoe’s 2018 Australasian Permaculture Convergence APC14 Keynote Presentation
A Resilient Life by Mariam Issa (Raw Aspiring Women garden project)
I also mention a crowdfunding I am setting up to support young woman in Kenya- stay tuned.

NB: Apologies for the mediocre film quality – internet is not great here for streaming. I’m currently working hard to find a better way to connect.

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.