Hannah Moloney

ABC’s Gardening Australia presenter, permaculturalist, bestselling author and climate activist

Words and ideas and actions can change the world. And Hannah Moloney has dedicated her life to all three.

She is one of ABC’s Gardening Australia presenter, an accomplished permaculturalist, a bestselling author, and a staunch climate activist.

Hannah spent more than two decades working with people in and out of the garden (or farm) to build climate resilience and advocate for effective climate action. Then, in 2013, she established Good Life Permaculture in Tasmania, which offers workshops, landscape design, and community projects aimed at building good lives and landscapes for all.

Hannah co-founded Source Community Wholefoods (Hobart’s only food cooperative) and the innovative former Hobart City Farm. She founded Home Harvest – the annual edible garden tour around nipaluna/Hobart and has been involved extensively working with local Councils teaching home composting to residents to reduce organics heading to landfill.

Her first book ‘The Good Life: How To Grow A Better World’ (2021) explores ways to counter the climate emergency individually and collectively. It was reprinted an incredible three times within its first 6 months to meet demand.

Hannah's activism is driven by radical hope and the profound knowledge that ordinary humans are capable of doing extraordinary things, especially when they work together.

If there were more Hannah Moloneys in the world, the world would be a better place. We all need to hear what she has to say.

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Key Points for Hannah Moloney

Hannah Moloney is the founder and director of Good Life Permaculture, Tasmania’s leading permaculture design and education enterprise.
She is the bestselling author of ‘The Good Life: How To Grow A Better World’ exploring how to live a good life in the face of the climate emergency, individually and collectively.
Hannah is a presenter on ABC’s Gardening Australia and a regular columnist for the Gardening Australia magazine.
Hannah is a deeply experienced urban ‘garden farmer’ in her own property where she cares for goats, chickens, bees, ducks all amongst large edible gardens and orchards.
She is an Ambassador for Community Gardens Australia.

Topics for Hannah Moloney

How to live a good life in the face of the climate emergency
Individual and collective action towards whole system change and a good life for all.
Permaculture and organic gardening
Exploration into permaculture and practical applications.

Testimonials for Hannah Moloney

Hannah was excellent and an absolute delight to work with.
Hannah's love of the land, plants and environment and her energy was inspiring
Hannah met our volunteers who work on the Committee and her interest in them and the Yorke Peninsula Field Days as whole was genuine. The Yorke Peninsula Field Days is a huge community event and Hannah was amazed at how the community comes together to put such an incredible event. Hannah's post on good life permaculture was so special to read.
Yorke Peninsula Field Days Inc

Hannah has an amazing ability to draw out the joy and potential in the climate conversation—inspiring communities to have a go and participate, not just spectate, in creating a sustainable and joyful life. It's a real privilege to hear Hannah's story—undoubtedly one of the best speakers I’ve had the pleasure to listen to.
Eat Well Tasmania

Hannah makes my heart smile. Her honesty, insight and conviction are the building blocks of the good life.
Costa Georgiadis
ABC’s Gardening Australia host

Bold, bright, funny and engaging, Hannah Maloney is the antidote to climate doomism and denial. She combines searing intellect with raw humanism to empower everybody to take more control over their lives and the future of the planet.
Matthew Evans, aka The Gourmet Farmer

The City has had a great working relationship with Hannah for years, and loves the professional, expert, and engaging nature she brings to everything she does with us. Hannah has been invaluable in undertaking public speaking projects and ambassadorial roles for the City in particular bringing her expert knowledge and engaging personality to head up our FOGO education campaign, and hosting public composting workshops. The City’s composting workshops are reliably booked out within hours, testament to Hannah’s reputation as a font of knowledge and engaging presenter. We’ve been impressed by Hannah’s work across a number of fronts, be that engaging with the community, or writing instructional booklets and guides, and we look forward to working with her on more exciting and interesting projects.
City of Hobart

Warm, enthusiastic, knowledgeable, non-judgemental, supportive of all questioners, and importantly she did not avoid big issues like the climate crisis.
AMAZING! You can see she's passionate about her work; she is a great speaker and delivered the message in a very appropriate way.
She's extremely knowledgeable, highly enthusiastic and very engaging. The perfect facilitator really.
Clear, focused, on message and humorous. Excellent public speaker. Widely knowledgeable. Practically focused.
I thought she was brilliant! Very professional and knew how to move on when needed and how to deal with unnecessary long winded questions.
Hannah is a delightful educator and wonderful person. She has a wealth of fantastic information and is a pleasure to learn from.
Anonymous Workshop feedback
From practical compost/gardening workshops

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