Do you want to know how to grow food with abundance and with ease? In response to the questions so many people have been asking me, I decided to create two online permaculture programs. This week I am welcoming new students to both of them.

LIMITED PLACES. REGISTER NOW

Places are limited to ensure I can give you each personal attention and real support. I answer everyone’s questions and give as much design feedback as I am able. Register today.

THE INCREDIBLE EDIBLE GARDEN  Cost AU$297

Register now for my online permaculture program. I release a new module each week over the next 9 weeks. Work at your own pace. Access these materials forever. Ask questions of me and your fellow students. Join a wonderfully international group. Click the title to visit the program site for more details. The program overview is:

• Module 1. Create Superb Soils
• Module 2. Setting up a Garden
• Module 3. Growing Abundant Food
• Module 4. Setting up a Food Forest
• Module 5. The ‘Super’food Garden
• Module 6. The Medicinal Garden
• Bonus 1: The Beauty Garden
• Bonus 2: The Tea Garden
• Bonus 3: Cooking up a Garden Feast

THE OUR PERMACULTURE LIFE MEMBERSHIP COMMUNITY Cost AU$397

• Do you need support to design and create your permaculture project?
• Let me be your permaculture mentor for a year.
• Register now and receive free access to The Incredible Edible Garden Course. 
• Each week I create new resources – interviews, Q&As, design input, plant review, book reviews, recipes and much more.
• Enjoy ongoing support and discussions with me and fellow students from around Australia and the world.
• Listen to my overview here
• Click here to find out more information and to register

If you have any questions, please just email me on morag@thegoodlifeschool.net

I look forward to working with you.

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Jenny is a permaculture designer, teacher and author. She designed and established her 3-acre permaculture property near Maleny in Queensland, Australia over 20 years ago and over the years it has grown and evolved with her changing needs, energy and life. It has evolved into an amazing edible and natural landscape that provides her with an abundance and a habitat that nourishes her deeply.

In Jenny’s Garden

Jenny has her favourite fruits and herbs closest to her home including:

• tamarillo
• avocado
• citrus
• rosemary
• chilli
• lemon myrtle

… and in her outer permaculture zones she has

• larger fruit trees
• a clutch of dragon fruit poles
• a cabinet timber plantation
• rainforest plantings
• rare butterfly vine plantings
• fish pond and
• even a little hideaway cabin in the treetops.

It really is a permaculture oasis and Jenny’s knowledge of plants and design makes this such a fascinating tour – particularly since she’s been living in it and adapting it for 2 decades.

Permaculture habitat

As well as being a fabulous habitat for her and her family, her garden has also become a place of great diversity and habitat value. She has regenerated this landscape so that now it attracts so many birds, lizards, frogs, and even a highly threatened species of crayfish has taken residence in her gully.

More films to watch

You might also like to watch my Walkabout film with Wiruungga exploring bushfoods and medicines, or check out my own garden.

Jenny Allen’s Book

Jenny’s beautiful book Smart Permaculture Design (also known as Paradise in Your Garden) has sold out completely after 3 print runs, so look for it in your local library, borrow it from a friend or perhaps find it in a second hand store. Every now and then I see it in a bookstore – snap it up if you can. Definitely worth it for all the valuable tips and practical permaculture advice. What I love about it too is that it is full of gorgeous photos from her garden.

Register now my Incredible Edible Garden online course starting March 31.

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Mike and I had such a fun time chatting. This is actually the second time we recorded this interview. The first recording was deleted when his office was hit by lightning the night we recorded it! I think this second take was better, so lucky really …

Mike Podlesny is a 3rd generation gardener and author of the book “Vegetable Gardening for the Average Person: A Guide to Vegetable Gardening for the Rest of Us“.  He has been featured in many newspapers, magazines and blogs across the United States.  His website http://www.AveragePersonGardening.com and his blog http://averagepersongardening.blogspot.com/ are visited by thousands of aspiring vegetable gardeners on a daily basis.  Mike Podlesny is also a regular contributor to many websites and blogs and is currently the administrator for the largest Vegetable Gardening page on Facebook.

It’s worth checking out Mike Podlesny’s podcast . He has hundreds of episodes now and amongst these interviews are many interesting people and topics.

Interview Topics

During the interview Mike and I talked widely around many topics including:

• What does a sustainable society look like?
• Designing food landscapes and how other cultures benefit.
• What are some steps you can take to build a sustainable permaculture home garden?
• What are the challenges that you will face when you set up a permaculture home garden?
• Turning your food garden into a food forest 
• Perennial and polycultural gardens right at home.
• Learning about permaculture from indigenous people. 
  • You can listen to my interview with Indigenous elder, Wiruungga Dunggiirr here and wander through the bushfoods garden with us here.
• Building the soil structure in a permaculture home garden.
• Talking about the food that is in your garden that you didn’t even realise was there.

#358: Why You Should Build a Sustainable Home Vegetable Garden Permaculture (Morag Gamble)

Learn More

Learn more about my way of growing abundant food with ease in my 6 week course, The Incredible Edible Garden Course. Registration is now open.

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Costa and I have a great rave as we walkabout through this amazing downtown food forest. We talk about urban food growing, permaculture, local food and other things that inspire. My 11yo daughter, and permaculture apprentice, did a great job filming us. I hope you enjoy this 18:48 minute film.

The food forest is located at the William Angliss Institute in Melbourne – home of the Masters of Food Systems and Gastronomy and venue for the 2018 Urban Agriculture Forum.

Earlier this week I posted a link to Costa’s Facebook live interview at the Urban Agriculture Conference.

The food forest is surrounded by high inner city buildings.

This food forest is also called a raingarden. A raingarden is a self-watering, low-maintenance garden designed to protect our waterways. They collect stormwater that runs off hard surfaces when it rains. Check out Melbourne Water’s useful introductory resource for this.

The planting plan for the William Angliss Institute’s Raingarden

Learn More

My 6 week course, The Incredible Edible Garden Course includes an entire module about creating food forests. Registration is now open.

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