WILD & KIND WEDNESDDAYS

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Following the International Festival of Wild and Kind Ideas from May 20-25, join us every Wednesday in June, for a special live Permaculture Education Institute conversation series hosted online by Morag Gamble—celebrating permaculture, World Localization Month and World Environment Day 2026—a gathering of voices exploring how we can cultivate resilient communities, regenerative cultures, ecological wisdom, and hopeful futures in a rapidly changing world.

This four-part online series brings together internationally respected thinkers, educators, growers, herbalists, permaculture pioneers, and storytellers for rich, podcast-style conversations with live audience participation.

We’ll explore practical responses to the social, ecological, and cultural challenges of our time, and the local, relational, and regenerative pathways emerging around the world.

REGISTER ONCE & GET ACCESS TO ALL FOUR SESSIONS

3 JUNE - David Holmgren: Permaculture (Replay now available)

7-8pm AEST

Co-originator of permaculture and internationally respected ecological thinker, David Holmgren will join us for a conversation exploring localisation, energy descent, resilience, and the pathways toward regenerative futures.

10 JUNE - Anne Stobart: Medicinal herbalism

7-8pm AEST

Medical herbalist, researcher, and ecological educator, Dr. Anne Stobart from Devon, joins us to explore healing plants, traditional knowledge, ecological medicine, and reconnecting with the living intelligence of landscapes.

17 JUNE - Emma Cutting: Street Gardening

Avid street gardener and inner city biodiversity advocate Emma Cutting will share insights into community action on the commons and systems change systems, and cultivating meaningful relationships with urban places.

24 JUNE - Liz Zorab: Growing simple abundance

7-8pm AEST

Welsh-based grower, educator, BBC Radio announcer, YouTuber and author, Liz Zorab, joins us for a conversation about everyday permaculture, abundant gardening, practical resilience, and creating beauty and nourishment in uncertain times.

What this series is celebrating

We are celebrating life, wild and kind ideas, permaculture and...

World Localization Month

Led by Local Futures and founded by Helena Norberg-Hodge, World Localization Month brings people together each June to celebrate local solutions and strengthen communities. Through conversations, events, storytelling, and collective action, it builds momentum for more resilient local economies and more connected ways of living.

World Environment Day

World Environment Day (June 5) focuses on climate change - on the urgent signals the Earth is sending and the signals we choose to send back.

The global campaign led by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) reminds us that the question is no longer if change is coming, but how we respond, how we adapt, and how we participate in shaping what comes next. This series is an invitation into that conversation!

Come for one session or join the whole series

One registration gives you access to all sessions & replays
These conversations are for anyone wanting to participate in the growing movement toward ecological regeneration, localisation, and a flourishing future.
Consider organising a watch-party and discussing together afterwards

WILD & KIND CONVERSATIONS CONTINUE IN JULY

REGISTER HERE FOR JULY: https://events.humanitix.com/wild-kind-july

1 JULY - Looby Macnamara - Cultural Emergence

7-8pm AEST/10am BST

How can permaculture guide our lives beyond the garden? Looby shares the evolution of the permaculture-inspired Cultural Emergence toolkit and movement and how it can be used to resource us in our daily lives & navigate the bigger picture. Hear too about Looby’s new book Design Adventures!

8 JULY - Afshan Omar - Permaculture Hospital Garden

7-8pm AEST/10am BST

Permaculture gardens can be a powerful places of healing, learning and connecting. This garden in a Malawian maternity hospital is a wildly beneficial community resource for young mothers, children and the carers.

15 JULY - Pippa Chapman - Food Forests

7-8pm AEST/10am BST

An exploration of the design and growing of small scale food forests and ways we can integrate them throughout our cities and towns to address food security.

22 JULY - John Seed - Deep Ecology

7-8pm AEST/10am BST

Explore the connection between permaculture and deep ecology and hear about permaculture in the Rainforest Information Centre's rainforest conservation projects in India and Ecuador.

29 JULY - Buttons Mira - Urban Mycology

7-8pm AEST/10am BST

Explore inner urban mushroom farming and ways to harvest and prepare nutritious hyper-local food. Welcome to the world of Buttons' Mushroomery.

ABOUT THE PERMACULTURE EDUCATION INSTITUTE

This event is brought to you courtesy of Morag Gamble at the Permaculture Education Institute, based at Crystal Waters Ecovillage on Jinibara and Gubbi Gubbi country, offers online courses and mentoring to support people worldwide to become designers, teachers and leaders of permaculture programs and to activate permaculture projects and communities. The Institute hosts regular global conversations exploring ecological worldviews, one-planet living and regenerative practices.

Contact the host of Wild & Kind Futures: An Eco-Conversation Series