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10/01/2026

Tune in to my first podcast episode for 2026 (12 mins). 🔗 link in bio.

It’s live now on Sense-Making in a Changing World - the first of a 4 part solo series exploring my ‘why permaculture’ and my theory of change.

08/01/2026

A koala just wandered past my window while I was answering emails about the newly released Permaculture Educators Complete Collection - open only until 31st Jan. . I loVE ❤️ koalas so much - I had to come out and have a chat.
Links to the program are in the bio - or here https://permacultureeducationinstitute.org/permaculture-educators-program

06/01/2026

Just 12 hours until my first permaculture masterclass for 2026 begins. HOW TO DESIGN TEACH AND SHARE PERMACULTURE. There are already over 600 people registered. It’s live and I’d love your company.

Click the link in bio to get the zoom link and start time. (9am Melbourne, 5pm New York, 10pm London)

02/01/2026

I am hosting a free live online permaculture masterclass next Wednesday - the first of my 2026 series.

🌏 How to design, teach and share permaculture in your community.

This is for you if you feel the pull to share what you know in a way that is practical, life centred, and genuinely supportive of the places you live and work. A neighbourhood, a school, a workplace, a garden group, a council team, a healing practice, a design studio. Anywhere people are ready to learn together.

We will explore how to shape learning that is simple and doable, how to design with living systems, and how to invite others in without needing to be perfect.

Wednesday 7 January
9am AEDT Melbourne Brisbane
(That’s Tuesday 6 Jan, 5pm New York or 10pm London)
Live on Zoom with Q&A
Replay available
Link sent with registration

If you know someone who would love this, invite them to come with you.

Register via the link in my BIO or comment MASTERCLASS below 👇

17/12/2025

I spent time in South Melbourne in Naarm with Emma Cutting from Heartscapes, walking through street gardens that are helping form the Melbourne Pollinator Corridor. They have already created 53 gardens, turning degraded verge sites into gardens of buzzing, wriggling beauty.

This corridor runs from the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne to Westgate Park, and it is not only about wildlife. It is also about deepening community with humans, fauna, flora and fungi, and remembering that we are nature in the middle of the city too.

Watch the 10 min video here: https://youtu.be/5wYSnNRiWTo

Support Heartscapes and the Melbourne Pollinator Corridor here: https://heartscapes.org.au

11/12/2025

Tune in to my latest Sense Making in a Changing World podcast episode
https://permacultureeducationinstitute.org/nutrient-dense-food-dan-kittredge-with-morag-gamble/

I am joined by the wonderful regenerative farmer and Bionutrient Food Association founder Dan Kittredge.

Dan’s work shows that two carrots that look almost identical can differ many times over in their nutrient content. The gap is not about labels. It is about soil life, seed, farming practice and the relationships between plants and microbes.

In our conversation we explore:

🌿 what nutrient dense food actually is and why it matters

🌿 how soil microbes and minerals shape human health

🌿 the quiet crisis of micronutrient deficiency and childhood wellbeing

🌿 what we lose when food is grown in sterile hydroponic systems

🌿 the possibility of using light to “see” food quality and make better decisions in everyday life

It is a conversation that connects agriculture, health, education and climate in a very grounded way, and points toward a community-led food revolution.
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Discover our permaculture design, teaching and leadership program at the Permaculture Education Institute
https://permacultureeducationinstitute.org/permaculture-educators-program

04/12/2025

What if growing food together was one of the most powerful ways to heal our relationship with the living world?⁠
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In this new episode of the Sense Making in a Changing World podcast (https://permacultureeducationinstitute.org/podcast), I am in conversation with my friend and colleague Abel Pearson, the founder of Glasbren (https://glasbren.org.uk), a deeply community facing farm on the cliffs of west Wales.⁠
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Abel and his family are now stewarding Lord’s Park Farm, a National Trust property where food, meadows, animals, wildlife, trees, culture and people all sit together at the heart of the vision. Glasbren is not only a productive farm. It is a place where volunteers, neighbours and visitors come to learn, to reconnect with land, and to feel part of something that is very alive.⁠
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In our conversation we explore how permaculture sits quietly underneath everything he does. Abel describes it as his origin rather than a badge. It weaves together his environmental history work, natural building experience, food sovereignty commitments and a very grounded care for people and place.⁠
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We talk about community supported agriculture as a practice of mutual care, about farms as cultural and social spaces, and about what it means to become of a place through daily work on the land. There is a strong honesty in how Abel speaks about the realities of farming, as well as the joy and meaning that flow through it.⁠
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This kind of community rooted, education rich farming is very close to the heart of my own work and to what we nurture inside the Permaculture Educators Program ((https://permacultureeducationinstitute.org/permaculture-educators-program). Many of our students are creating their own versions of Glasbren in schools, neighbourhoods, small farms and community organisations, each in their own context and culture.⁠
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If you are interested in food systems, community resilience or permaculture education, I think you will find a lot to reflect on in this conversation with Abel.⁠
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Read more and tune in to this podcast episdehttps://permacultureeducationinstitute.org/farm-as-community-abel-pearson-and-morag-gamble/

23/11/2025

There's food all around us and much of it falls from trees!

In my latest Sense-Making in a Changing World conversation, I sit down with writer and public radio host Elspeth Hay to explore her beautiful new book Feed Us with Trees: Nuts and the Future of Food and the bigger story it opens about food, commons and human nature.

Elspeth shares how one simple realisation changed everything for her: acorns are food. From there, she followed nut trees back through time and across continents, uncovering histories of oak, chestnut and hazel commons, enclosure, colonisation and the rise of industrial agriculture.

We talk about
• how perennial nut-based polycultures can feed people while feeding whole ecosystems
• humans as potential keystone species rather than ecological mistakes
• cultural burning, oak woodlands and tending landscapes as a form of care
• rebuilding commons, local economies and a sense of belonging to place

Elspeth’s work sits so closely with the heart of permaculture and with my own questions about healthy human habitats and how we might live well in our home bioregions.

If you are curious about tree-centred food systems and want to take this learning further, I also share in the episode about the Permaculture Educators Program, our online double certificate in permaculture design and teaching. It is for people who want to grow food, grow community and grow a meaningful livelihood around regenerative work.

Listen to the episode and learn more about Elspeth’s work here:
https://permacultureeducationinstitute.org/feed-us-with-trees-elspeth-hay-morag-gamble/

Explore the Permaculture Educators Program here:
https://permacultureeducationinstitute.org/permaculture-educators-program

What trees are feeding you where you live?

09/11/2025

I live in a permaculture designed ecovillage - a beautiful food and nature-filled place - a healthy human habitat.

On my walk this afternoon …

1. Chatting with the resident kangaroos
2. Enjoying the shaded roads where pedestrians cyclists and animals have the right of way
3. Pausing beside one of the 17 lakes here that rehydrate and cool the landscape, moderate microclimates, provide habitat for abundant wildlife and are great places to play and relax
4. Huge candlenuts almost ready - a bushtucker plant
5. Peeking into the Jaboticaba branches to see the second flush of fruits forming
6. My neighbours mangos are coming along nicely
7. The monstera is fruiting
8. My house surrounded but lush permaculture gardens and wild spaces
9. The edible canna (Qld arrowroot) thrives in this wet warm weather - this special red one is beautiful and also an abundant mulch source - I always have little water spots around the garden too
10. Day lilies are flowering and edible
11. Fennel flowering too - waiting for those seeds to munch on
12. The first flush of Jaboticaba ready for harvesting - mmmm 😋
13. The grummichama is flowering - like a tropical cherry - fortunately ready around Christmas feasting time
14. Pomegranates are flowering - I grew this from a cutting and have spread many around the garden. Young fresh leaves also edible.
15. Weekends are a great time to hang out at the river with the boys - we are at the very top of the Mary River with fresh swimmable rivers that are also home to platypus
16. Beside the river in the undergrowth are lots of wonderful fungi
17. Down by the river grow lots of blue quandong. The changing colour of their leaves is spectacular. A bushtucker plant.
18. Flame trees are blooming all over - another native bushtucker plant.
19. Alyssum in the veggie garden as a living mulch and pollinator attractor - bees butterflies hoverflies lady beetles - the leaves and flowers also edible
20. Sponge garden. The mulched soak/swale path in my garden that underneath is filled with woodchips. The path becomes compost to top dress next season’s garden.

03/11/2025

New podcast episode with Sense-Making in a Changing World.

🎧 REWILDING LEADERSHIP with Kelly Wendorf: Learning to Lead Like Life Itself

What if leadership wasn’t about control, but about care?

Join me in this deeply grounded conversation. I thoroughly enjoyed speaking with Kelly Wendorf, author of 'Flying Lead Change', about rewilding leadership - a way of leading that mirrors how life itself organises and thrives.

Kelly’s work draws wisdom from horse herds, neuroscience, and Indigenous traditions to remind us that leadership begins with listening, presence, and relationship. The lead horse doesn’t dominate; she creates safety, connection, and freedom for the whole herd to flourish.

This conversation left me feeling lighter and more hopeful - a reminder that leadership can be gentle, relational, and joyful.

For me, this also speaks to what we cultivate in the Permaculture Educators Program - a form of leadership with life: designing, teaching, and caring in ways that regenerate, connect, and empower others to thrive.

🎧 Listen → https://permacultureeducationinstitute.org/rewilding-leadership-kelly-wendorf-morag-gamble/

02/11/2025

Registrations now open for the Spring 2026 Capra Course!
Learn more and register at capracourse.net

Did you know...2026 is the last year you can join the Capra Course as it has been offered?

After 10 successful years, the course will transition away from the current format of two offerings a year and Fritjof himself opening and closing with live sessions. This may be your last opportunity to interact with one of the most brilliant minds in the systems thinking arena. Author or many books and passionate activist, Fritjof has inspired thousands since his first book The Tao of Physics was published 50 years ago.

How the course is organized:
Each week you will have access to a new lecture and materials. Each lecture comes with a summary and subtitles in English, Spanish and Italian. There are study groups in different languages and time zones and when you finish the course, you join a growing community of alumni who meet with Fritjof two times a year through the alumni gatherings.

Course Fees:
Student/Low Income ~ $200
Independent Professional ~ $500
Executive ~ $1000
Full and partial scholarships available

Register here today - https://spring.capracourse.net/product/the-systems-view-of-life-online-course/

31/10/2025

After eight wonderful years, I’m closing The Incredible Edible Garden— my online introduction to permaculture gardening course — tonight at midnight.

If you’ve been thinking about joining, this is your last chance 🌱

For $145 AUD (≈ $94 USD / £74 / €87), you’ll receive lifetime access to all 9 modules — everything you need to create a thriving, nature-friendly garden wherever you live.

You’ll learn how to:
🌿 Bring your soil to life
🥕 Grow fresh, healthy food in any space
🌳 Design a mini food forest
🌸 Grow herbs, teas, and simple medicines
🍲 Create delicious meals straight from your garden

It’s self-paced, practical, and joyful — and once you join, it’s yours for life.

You can even gift the course or share it with your children (under 18s join free with a parent).

Every enrolment also supports free permaculture education for women and youth in East African refugee settlements through the Ethos Foundation.

✨ This is the final day.
If you’ve been meaning to begin — start now.

👉 Join via the link before midnight.
https://permacultureeducationinstitute.org/incredible-edible-garden/

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Do you want to live a more ethical and sustainable life - living authentically, helping others, addressing the big issues of our time, and contributing to creating a more beautiful world we all know is possible? If you are looking for a life-path that could make this kind of positive impact then we’re so glad you are here. We encourage you to join us, and make teaching others your goal too - rippling the positive thinking and action widely and rapidly.

In the Permaculture Educators’ Program we will show you how to design abundant and regenerative permaculture systems, how you can teach others and how to make permaculture the focus of your work. Imagine if you could facilitate, create and implement regenerative edible landscape designs for individual and communities, while having the opportunity to teach others the same. You could live your life helping communities, friends, yourself and the planet.

We absolutely love permaculture. Having over 25 years experience in 22 different countries, we’re committed to creating more permaculture education opportunities around the world… so we can all make a difference. Our course is an in-depth internationally recongnised Permaculture Design Certificate which we’ve combined with the only online Permaculture Teacher Certificate in the world.