THIS IS THE FINAL LIVE WILD & KIND WEDNESDAY

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.

Following the International Festival of WIld & Kind Ideas in May, we have continued Wild & Kind Wednesdays each week in June and July.

This live series is hosted by Morag Gamble, founder of the Permaculture Education Institute.

Gather together in conversation with people exploring how we can cultivate resilient communities, regenerative cultures, ecological wisdom, and hopeful futures in a rapidly changing world.

This online series brings together internationally respected educators, designers, growers, activists and storytellers for rich, podcast-style conversations with live audience participation.

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

PREVIOUS WILD AND KIND WEDNESDAYS

3 JUNE - David Holmgren: Permaculture (Click for replay)

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 (Click for replay)

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 (Replay coming soon)

10-11am AEST

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 (Click for replay)

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.

1 JULY - Looby Macnamara - Cultural Emergence (Click for replay)

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 (Click for replay)

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 (Click for replay)

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 & Erika Aligno - Deep Ecology (Replay coming soon)

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.

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.

We lead online courses for permaculture designers, educators and community catalysts worldwide.

Curious to learn more?

Explore the Permaculture Educators Program →
A warm, spacious path to learning permaculture - online, self-paced, no deadlines, and no way to fall behind. Just space to learn in your own time, fully as yourself.

Contact the host of Wild & Kind Wednesdays July 2026