In this second episode of my January solo series, we talk about design. Not design as a glossy masterplan, not something fixed or expert only, but design as a responsive practice that is grounded in place and always in motion.

Permaculture begins with observation, with noticing, with curiosity. It asks how we can show up as kind humans in service of life, and how we can shape the places we live and work so they support comfort, health, resilience, belonging, and biodiversity.

I share a little story from my home in the ecovillage, including why I design to use less water even when it is available, and what it means to live as one species among many. We explore what “healthy human habitats” can really mean, and why most of the challenges we face sit right here in the everyday systems of human life.

If this work calls to you but you are not sure you know enough yet, I want you to hear this clearly. Permaculture design is learnable. You learn it by doing it, with good guidance, examples, and a community of practice.

This episode also includes a simple practice you can do this week: a slow walk through one place you move through every day, choosing one relationship that is calling for attention, and making one small change you can complete within a week.

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January 2026 offer
The Permaculture Educators Complete Collection is available from 7 to 31 January 2026. https://permacultureeducationinstitute.org/permaculture-educators-program

This once only bundle includes lifetime access to the Permaculture Educators Program, including the full Permaculture Design Certificate and Permaculture Teacher Certificate, plus bonus permaculture business modules. It also includes lifetime access to SHARE Permaculture and The Incredible Edible Garden, which are only available inside this Complete Collection. You’re also invited into our global learning community, The HIVE, for a year, so you’re held in a living community of practice while you learn and apply what you’re learning.

About Morag
Morag Gamble is the founder of the Permaculture Education Institute. Through her courses, films, and conversations, she supports people around the world to design for one plane

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This podcast is hosted by Morag Gamble, founder of the Permaculture Education Institute - the leading-edge international online school for integrated permaculture design, education, leadership and [pr]activism.⁠

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Find more of Morag's conversations at the International Permaculture Festival of Wild Ideas.

This podcast is broadcast from a solar powered studio in the midst of a permaculture ecovillage on Jinibara & Gubbi Gubbi country.

🎧 Episode 1 – Why We Need Positive, Practical Permaculture

Many of us are carrying a quiet weight. We see what’s happening in the world and wonder what difference we can make. This episode is a gentle, hopeful invitation to come back to what’s real - place, people, food, community, meaning - and to rediscover the power of small, practical acts of care.

Morag Gamble shares how permaculture can move us from reacting to designing, from anxiety to agency, and from isolation to connection. You’ll hear simple, life-centred ways to create pockets of ease, beauty, and regeneration right where you are.

🌿 In this episode:

• Why “positive practical permaculture” matters now more than ever
• The idea of myceliation — how change spreads through small acts of care
• How to begin designing your life, not just coping with it
• What happens when we link personal wellbeing with planetary wellbeing

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Gain practical tools to help you design, teach, and share permaculture in your own context.

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This podcast is hosted by Morag Gamble, founder of the Permaculture Education Institute - the leading-edge international online school for integrated permaculture design, education, leadership and [pr]activism.⁠

• Save 50% on Morag Gamble's Permaculture Educators Complete Collection (available only 7-31 Jan, 2026)
• Talk with Morag here about this program.

Find more of Morag's conversations at the International Permaculture Festival of Wild Ideas.

This podcast is broadcast from a solar powered studio in the midst of a permaculture ecovillage on Jinibara & Gubbi Gubbi country.

In this episode of Sense Making in a Changing World, I speak with regenerative farmer and Bionutrient Food Association founder Dan Kittredge from the United States.

Together we explore what it really means to grow nutrient dense food and nourish the microbiome, in the soil and in our own bodies.

Dan shares decades of experience and research that reveal just how wide the gap is between food that truly nourishes and food that simply fills us up. We talk about the huge variation in nutrient levels between different samples of the same crop, why this happens and what it means for human health and climate.

We touch on:

• How two carrots from different farms can have four to ten times difference in key nutrients
• Why labels like organic or local only tell part of the story of food quality
• What happens when we take soil out of the equation and grow food in hydroponic systems
• Why Dan says we should be growing for the microbiome in the soil and in our own bodies
• Practical ways gardeners and farmers can start shifting their practice toward truly nutrient dense food

My hope is that this conversation helps you look at the food on your plate and the soil under your feet in a new way, and encourages you to keep experimenting in your own gardens, farms, kitchens and communities.

I'd love to hear from you. Text me here.

Support the show

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Subscribe to this podcast, share widely, leave a comment and a 5 star review to help these stories myceliate far.

• Check out the Sense-Making in a Changing World podcast website & Youtube channel

This podcast is hosted by Morag Gamble, founder of the Permaculture Education Institute - the leading-edge international online school for integrated permaculture design, education, leadership and [pr]activism.⁠

• Save 50% on Morag Gamble's Permaculture Educators Complete Collection (available only 7-31 Jan, 2026)
• Talk with Morag here about this program.

Find more of Morag's conversations at the International Permaculture Festival of Wild Ideas.

This podcast is broadcast from a solar powered studio in the midst of a permaculture ecovillage on Jinibara & Gubbi Gubbi country.