Wild Ideas 2025: Global Permaculture Festival Online - May 2025

📅 May 3-11, 2025 | 📍 Online | 🏷️ festival

The International Permaculture Festival of WILD Ideas 2025 is a dynamic 9-day online event running from May 3-11, 2025, designed for permaculture enthusiasts, sustainability advocates, educators, and anyone passionate about regenerative living and wilding practices worldwide, including those in the USA seeking accessible virtual experiences. Hosted by Morag Gamble, founder of the Permaculture Education Institute, this gift-economy festival brings together inspiring thinkers, doers, creatives, and practitioners from across the globe to explore permaculture principles through a diverse lineup of free content. Attendees will dive into talks, films, ideas, designs, art, music, books, storytelling, and conversations that ignite innovation in ecological design and planetary repair. Key highlights include sessions like Albert Bates on 'Planetary Repair,' discussing his pioneering work in permaculture, ecovillage design, biochar, and energy descent from The Farm ecovillage in Tennessee; Renata Minerbo on 'Rewilding & Regeneration'; and the global premiere of 'Learning from Sparrows' by Giulia Attanasio, plus contributions from experts like John Seed. Participants will learn practical applications of permaculture for rewilding landscapes, building resilient ecosystems, fostering community-led projects, and integrating wild ideas into everyday design—covering topics from food forests and soil regeneration to social permaculture and biodiversity enhancement. What makes this invaluable for permaculture practitioners is its emphasis on inspiration and connection: over multiple days, you'll network with global changemakers, gain fresh perspectives on wilding (reintroducing natural processes to heal ecosystems), and access 100% donation-supported content that funnels proceeds to community-led permaculture projects in the Global South. Whether you're a beginner sketching your first homestead or a seasoned designer refining climate-resilient strategies, this festival equips you with actionable insights, creative sparks, and a renewed sense of possibility. Join from anywhere in the USA via live streams in AEST time zones (convenient recordings likely available), emerging with tools to transform urban backyards, rural farms, or community spaces into thriving, wild-inspired permaculture systems that support biodiversity, human well-being, and long-term sustainability.