Sense-Making in a Changing World

Morag Gamble: Permaculture Education Institute

Join Morag Gamble, global permaculture teacher and ambassador, in conversation with leading ecological educators, thinkers, activists, authors, designers and practitioners to explore the kind of thinking and action we need to navigate a positive and regenerative way forward, to myceliate possibilities, and share ideas of what a thriving one-planet way of life could look like. In today's constantly changing world, Morag's guests offer voices of clarity and common sense.

  1. Nutrient Dense Food with Dan Kittredge: Growing for the Microbiome

    12/11/2025

    Nutrient Dense Food with Dan Kittredge: Growing for the Microbiome

    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 nutrientsWhy labels like organic or local only tell part of the story of food qualityWhat happens when we take soil out of the equation and grow food in hydroponic systemsWhy Dan says we should be growing for the microbiome in the soil and in our own bodiesPractical ways gardeners and farmers can start shifting their practice toward truly nutrient dense foodMy 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 _____________________________ 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.⁠ Get Morag Gamble's Permaculture Educators Complete Collection (available only until 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.

    46 min
  2. Farm as Community: Growing Belonging with Abel Pearson and Morag Gamble

    12/04/2025

    Farm as Community: Growing Belonging with Abel Pearson and Morag Gamble

    In this episode of Sense-Making in a Changing World, I sit down with Abel Pearson – permaculture educator, community food grower and co founder of Glasbren, an award winning community-supported agriculture project in rural Wales. Glasbren began as a three acre permaculture designed market garden and has now moved to Lord’s Park Farm, a 134 acre National Trust property on the cliffs where the Taf and Tywi rivers meet the sea in Carmarthenshire. Abel and his family are the first permaculture based tenants on a National Trust farm, creating a flagship project for nature friendly, community facing farming. In our conversation we explore: Abel’s journey from woofing and natural building to discovering permaculture as “the origin” of everything he now doesHow Glasbren grew from a three acre CSA into a whole farm vision at Lord’s ParkDesigning a landscape and an organisation with permaculture ethics: earth care, people care, fair shareIndigenous and historic food systems as deeply “permacultural” ways of living in reciprocity with landBeingof a place when you may not be from there – and how growing food together becomes daily practice in belongingWelsh language, culture and land Community supported agriculture, food security and the fragility of our current food systemWales’ shift toward agroecology, social value payments for farms, and support for small scale growersThe practicalities of funding and holding a diversified social enterprise farmVolunteering at Glasbren as a pathway into community, wellbeing and climate actionFamily life in the middle of a farm that is also a community hubAbel’s reflections weave beautifully with the core of permaculture education – that we are learning a way of seeing and relating, not just a collection of techniques. This episode is an invitation to slow down, listen to place, and see farms and gardens as sites of cultural and ecological repair. Glasbren website: https://www.glasbren.org.uk _________________________________ I'd love to hear from you. Text me here. Support the show _____________________________ 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.⁠ Get Morag Gamble's Permaculture Educators Complete Collection (available only until 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.

    51 min
  3. Feed us with trees. Elspeth Hay and Morag Gamble

    11/23/2025

    Feed us with trees. Elspeth Hay and Morag Gamble

    What if the forest you walk through is already a food garden, and the real work is remembering how to see it that way? In this episode of Sense Making in a Changing World I am in conversation with writer and public radio host Elspeth Hay about her beautiful new book Feed Us with Trees: Nuts and the Future of Food. Elspeth calls in from her home on Cape Cod and shares how one simple realisation changed everything for her: acorns ARE food. From that moment she began following nut trees back through time and across continents, uncovering oak, chestnut and hazel commons, stories of enclosure and colonisation, and the quiet resilience of people who never stopped tending tree foods. Together we explore how this different way of seeing opens a path toward food systems that feed people and whole ecosystems at the same time. We talk about:  How nut trees like oak, chestnut and hazel can sit at the centre of generous food systems Why perennial tree based polycultures can out produce industrial monocultures once we count the full costs Humans as potential keystone species rather than ecological mistakes Cultural burning, oak woodlands and remembering that our presence can be beneficial Commons, local economies and finding belonging by staying rooted in a placeElspeth invites us to see ourselves as “radical regenerators” who are not just analysing the old story of agriculture, but actively weaving new ones in our own communities. ABOUT ELSPETH HAY  Elspeth Hay is a writer and public radio host based on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. She created The Local Food Report, a weekly program on CAI, the Cape and Islands NPR station, and her work on food and ecology has appeared in places such as the Boston Globe, NPR and Heated with Mark Bittman. Her book Feed Us with Trees: Nuts and the Future of Food explores how nut trees and tree centred cultures can help us reimagine food, history and our ecological role as humans. You can learn more about Elspeth and her work at: elspethhay.com I hope this episode encourages you to look again at the tree I'd love to hear from you. Text me here. Support the show _____________________________ 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.⁠ Get Morag Gamble's Permaculture Educators Complete Collection (available only until 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.

    55 min
  4. Rewilding Leadership with Kelly Wendorf and Morag Gamble

    11/03/2025

    Rewilding Leadership with Kelly Wendorf and Morag Gamble

    Learning to Lead Like Life Itself How do we lead in a way that feels alive, kind, and connected to the living world? In this episode of Sense-Making in a Changing World, Morag is joined by Kelly Wendorf, author of Flying Lead Change and founder of EQUUS, whose work brings together horses, neuroscience, and ancient wisdom to reimagine what leadership can be. Kelly shares about leadership as a natural, relational process. Not command and control, but care and connection - moving from hierarchy to harmony. Her principles of leadership — Safety, Connection, Peace, Freedom, and Joy — mirror what we see in every thriving ecosystem. The same qualities that sustain a healthy forest or a permaculture garden can also sustain our families, workplaces, and communities. Morag and Kelly talk about what it means to lead from presence, to cultivate trust rather than fear, and to listen so deeply that the next right action becomes obvious. “The lead horse doesn’t run at the front. She leads from behind, creating safety so others can step into confidence.” Rewilding leadership is about remembering that life already knows how to lead. Our task is to learn again how to be in conversation with it - to listen to the more-than-human world, and to design our cultures, systems, and movements in ways that honour the web of life we’re part of. This is a conversation for anyone sensing that leadership is less about power and more about participation - an invitation to step back into the flow of life and let nature show the way. 🌿 In this episode we explore: What rewilded leadership looks and feels likeHow the wisdom of the herd translates into human relationshipsThe connection between permaculture and leadershipLeading from behind: creating confidence, not controlPresence as a regenerative force in times of changeKelly Wendorf is a leadership coach, educator, and founding partner of EQUUS, an innovative organisation offering experientia I'd love to hear from you. Text me here. Support the show _____________________________ 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.⁠ Get Morag Gamble's Permaculture Educators Complete Collection (available only until 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.

    1h 5m
  5. Bog Witch: Storytelling as Climate Action - Bryony Kimmings and Will Duke with Morag Gamble

    09/29/2025

    Bog Witch: Storytelling as Climate Action - Bryony Kimmings and Will Duke with Morag Gamble

    In this episode of Sense-Making in a Changing World, I speak with acclaimed artist Bryony Kimmings and award-winning projection designer Will Duke about their powerful new theatre work, Bog Witch. Commissioned for the launch season at Soho Theatre Walthamstow, Bog Witch is Bryony’s first solo work in over five years. Known for her fearless, hilarious, and deeply moving autobiographical creations, Bryony has been called “an artist of exceptional integrity, imagination, compassion and guts” by The Guardian. Her work spans theatre, film, and television, including projects with the BBC, Channel 4, and the National Theatre. Will is a leading projection designer whose practice spans opera, theatre, and dance. His acclaimed visual designs have appeared on international stages from the Royal Opera House to the National Theatre. Will is also a student of the Permaculture Education Institute, weaving ecological design principles into both his creative work and daily life. Together, they open up about how storytelling itself can be a form of climate action — using humour, vulnerability, and imagination to re-enchant culture and invite us back into the web of life. I was living hand to mouth, searching for happiness in alcohol and consumer culture — but it didn’t fill the hole in my soul. Nature did.” ~ Bryony Kimmings Storytelling is climate action. It opens hearts where facts alone can’t.” ~ Will Duke We are living in a time when climate narratives risk becoming tired or overwhelming. What Bryony and Will remind us is that culture shifts through stories — stories that make us laugh, cry, grieve, and imagine differently. 🎟 Tickets for Bog Witch: Soho Theatre🌐 Bryony Kimmings🌐 Will DukeI'd love to hear from you. Text me here. Support the show _____________________________ 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.⁠ Get Morag Gamble's Permaculture Educators Complete Collection (available only until 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.

    54 min
  6. How to fall in love with the future? with Rob Hopkins

    09/19/2025

    How to fall in love with the future? with Rob Hopkins

    In this inspiring conversation, Morag Gamble speaks with Rob Hopkins - Transition Towns co-founder, author of How to Fall in Love with the Future, and creator of Field Recordings from the Future. Together they explore why imagination is vital for permaculture, community resilience, and regenerative culture, and how anyone can practice imagination activism to create hopeful, practical change. Rob shares stories of playful, community-led projects, his work with sensory futuring, and how cultivating longing rather than fear can mobilise people to act for a thriving future. If you’re a permaculture educator, changemaker, or someone longing for new possibilities, this episode will give you tools and inspiration to nurture imagination in your community. Rob Hopkin's links: Rob Hopkins website: robhopkins.netBook: How to Fall in Love with the FutureRecord: Field Recordings from the Future Key Themes How imagination fuels permaculture and community designTransition Towns and lessons from grassroots changeInspiration from and for permaculture.Sensory futuring and field recordings from the futureCultivating longing vs. anxiety in movements for changeHow to make activism joyful, creative, and effectiveI'd love to hear from you. Text me here. Support the show _____________________________ 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.⁠ Get Morag Gamble's Permaculture Educators Complete Collection (available only until 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.

    1h 2m
  7. Wisdom of Trees with Leah Rampy, Beth Norcross and Morag Gamble

    09/06/2025

    Wisdom of Trees with Leah Rampy, Beth Norcross and Morag Gamble

    Join Morag Gamble in this episode with Leah Rampy and Beth Norcross to explore the possibilities of transformative relationships between humans and the more-than-human, and discover the spiritual wisdom of trees.  From deepening our understanding of thoughts beyond language to learning from trees and mycelial networks, they share stories about our connections to nature and our processes of becoming rooted and fluid. On Earth Day this year Leah & Beth released a book together called, Discovering the Spiritual Wisdom of Trees, exploring: Moving from science to spirit: how forestry and ecology meet mystery.Trees as spiritual beings and patient teachers.The loneliness of isolated trees—and what it teaches us about human community.Practices to connect more deeply with trees wherever you are.Cracking open: the vulnerable yet transformative journey of opening to nature’s wisdom.Leah Rampy is a writer, speaker, and retreat leader living in a co-housing community who weaves ecology, spirituality, personal stories, and practices to help others deepen their relationship to the natural world. She is the founder and leader of Church of the Wild Two Rivers, and co-founded Save Our Soil - a volunteer organisation promoting soil health, local food, native plants, and regenerative agriculture. Beth Norcross is a passionate spiritual guide, author, naturalist, TEDx speaker, and founder of The Center for Spirituality in Nature. She offers nature's wisdom for living with connection, resilience, joy, and hope, particularly in challenging and uncertain times.  I'd love to hear from you. Text me here. Support the show _____________________________ 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.⁠ Get Morag Gamble's Permaculture Educators Complete Collection (available only until 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.

    1h 2m
  8. The Age of Regeneration with Rebecca Tickell and Morag Gamble

    08/24/2025

    The Age of Regeneration with Rebecca Tickell and Morag Gamble

    This episode, Rebecca Tickell - an award-winning documentary filmmaker, passionate storyteller and environmental activist - joins to explore the art of regeneration. Rebecca creates films, like 'Common Ground' and 'Kiss the Ground', that combine powerful cinematography with a hopeful movement for soil regeneration and health. In a world where extractive systems of agriculture and development have destroyed two thirds of the world’s topsoil and exacerbated climate change to dangerous levels, we have two decades to restore what has been lost. Amongst the crisis, Rebecca shows us how to reground and regenerate - wherever you are with, whatever you have. Tune in to get inspired and you can find more of Rebecca’s work at her website. I'd love to hear from you. Text me here. Support the show _____________________________ 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.⁠ Get Morag Gamble's Permaculture Educators Complete Collection (available only until 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.

    59 min
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Join Morag Gamble, global permaculture teacher and ambassador, in conversation with leading ecological educators, thinkers, activists, authors, designers and practitioners to explore the kind of thinking and action we need to navigate a positive and regenerative way forward, to myceliate possibilities, and share ideas of what a thriving one-planet way of life could look like. In today's constantly changing world, Morag's guests offer voices of clarity and common sense.

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    Morag Gamble: Permaculture Education Institute
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    2020 - 2025
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