Hello, my name is Ellenie, I'm fourteen years old and live in The Domes, an incredible earthbrick house. The “Gnomes” (my family of four humans,...
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Morag Gamble archive
Permaculture Design
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with...
A Life of Leadership – Uganda
Bemeriki Bisimwa Dusabe has been practicing permaculture for most of his life, even before he had the term “permaculture” to describe the way he was...
The Ripple Effect – Uganda
In less than a year and in the middle of a global health crisis, Paulinho Muzaliwa Josaphat and a small team of refugee permaculture educators have...
Teaching Permaculture Through Music – Kenya
Sumaili Nyange (left) is a young refugee who has grown up at Kakuma Refugee Camp - one of the largest refugee camps in the world (almost 200,000...
Planet Schooling with Lucy Legan and Morag Gamble
In this episode of Sense-Making in a Changing World I'd like to introduce Lucy Legan! Lucy, like me, has been a permaculture educator for decades...
Hatching Chicks
On Saturday, Day 19 of our hen brooding, we hatched 6 chicks from a clutch of 10 eggs. We opened the other eggs to see what the cause might have...
Mulching your way
Mulching is essential for any healthy garden, but can sometimes be overlooked. Mulch is an organic and biodegradable material that mimics the forest...
Challenge Accepted
When I think of cooking with my family, I think of garlic. It’s full-bodied, pleasing flavour that lingers and sweetens in your mouth and ends in a...
My Head To-ma-toes
Nothing is more delicious than home-grown veggies and home-grown tomatoes eaten straight from the garden - still warm and tasting of sunshine is...
Declare to Care with Cate McQuillen
Welcome to Episode 30 of Sense-Making in the Changing World with Cate McQuillen - the creative powerhouse behind EMMY Award winning Dirt Girl...
Friend or Foe?
Insect pests in your garden can be overwhelming and frustrating. Once pests have called your garden home and use your plants as their main source of...
Workshop Success
Long ago poetry was never written down, poems were composed, memorised, and performed, and heard orally. Poetry read aloud, experienced, and...
Walking on Eggshells
Chickens can help the ecosystem create systems of abundance through their natural behaviours of scratching, pecking, hunting bugs, eating, and...
Once Bitten, Twice Shy
In spring and summer, many reptiles emerge to bask in the sun. During this time you should take precautions to minimise the chance of encountering...