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Permaculture Teaching Farm – Podcast with Suzie Cahn & Morag Gamble

Posted by Morag Gamble on May 29, 2021 in permaculture | 418 Views

I had such fun with this episode of Sense-Making in a Changing World. I am joined by my great friend Suzie Cahn, a leader from the Irish permaculture world, creator of a permaculture education farm, and active in permaculture education globally. She is an adventurous teacher who’s worked with communities from Mongolia to Belize.

Back in 2008, Suzie and her husband Mike established Carraig Dúlra – social enterprise, community education, nature connection and permaculture hub in County Wicklow and is exploring her Irish indigeneity through this lens.

Suzie and I met at a climate change conference in Findhorn Scotland a few years back and just clicked. She coordinates a Climate Justice Centre in Ireland piloting community-led approaches to Climate Action and is active in ECOLISE (the European network for community-led initiatives on climate change and sustainability). She deeply involved in the transition and permaculture movements .You can hear her speak about her many threads of interest in her own podcast Cailleach (actually, you’ll hear this episode there too – we did the beautiful multi-functional permaculture thing and interviewed each other!)

Together we explore how we came to being permaculture teachers and what shapes our thinking and our approaches as educators.

To listen to the audio version of our conversation go here.

More information about Suzie’s place.

Carraig Dúlra is a 3.8 acre smallholding in Wicklow that has been designed and developed in collaboration with many volunteers, students and tutors and now contains (from Permaculture UK site):

  • 1.5 acre native woodland
  • 0.5 acre food forest and apple orchard
  • different types of organic annual gardens:
  • the circle garden
  • a herb labyrinth insectary
  • a traditional market garden
  • an allotment sized garden
  • large greenhouse with perennial polycultures and annual beds
  • a mixed material (round poles, cob, straw bale), naturally built round barn with a reciprocal roof
  • a washhouse/sauna cabin
  • pond and swale systems
  • indoor kitchen, clad with forestry waste timbers, and up-cycled dumped kitchen counters and cabinets
  • outdoor cooking area: with cob oven, biogas generation, rocket stoves and BBQ

Suzie Cahn and Permaculture Education Farm

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Morag Gamble

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.

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Morag Gamble


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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