Compost · Permaculture Women Magazine

How to grow garlic

tips and tricks for growing gorgeous organic garlic

How to build organic garden soil

Learn from my example how to build organic garden soil.

Cracking the underwear code: make your own underwear

Take another step towards autonomy as you make your own underwear.

Gardening Diversity in Our Lives and Our Communities

Gardening diversity is essential for balance and harmony, as is diversity in our lives.

The life of a stinging nettle in a permaculture garden

Stinging nettle plays an important part in permaculture.

Celtic Wisdom and Regenerative Culture — After Corona Virus

We can use celtic wisdom and regenerative culture to deepen our connection with the Earth

In-Situ Composting in Your Garden

In-Situ composting. Why you need it & how to do it right.

Building a Better World Out of Uncertainty

Building a better world

How to grow tomatoes in a temperate climate

By Heather Jo Flores Tips for cloudy skies tomato gardeners In a foggy, temperate climate, most of us know the drill: Start seeds indoors in…

How to grow melons: tips and tricks

By Heather Jo Flores a little ingenuity goes a long way If you’re a gardener and you feel like melons are easy to grow, please, message…

Big yields From a Small Garden: Growing Food in Small Spaces

There are plenty of good reasons to develop a skill set for growing food in small spaces. By Heather Jo Flores There are plenty of good…

Bring us a Shrubbery! Best plants for edible hedges

A baker’s dozen of easy to grow and disease-resistant perennial hedge plants. By Heather Jo Flores No garden is complete without a yummy patch of edible,…

If You Guild It, They Will Come: How to Grow a Permaculture Food Forest

group plants together for specific reasons, encourage them to spread into permanent, self-managing landscapes

Mulch Much? The Benefits of Mulching

By Heather Jo Flores It’s always a good day for mulching your garden! Mulch builds humus. The word “human” comes from the same roots as humus,…

Avoid These Common Mistakes After Your Permaculture Design Certificate Course…

By Karryn Olson Often, after an in-depth permaculture learning experience, folks emerge with the desire to change their living or working situations so that they…

Lasagna Gardening 101

What is Lasagna Gardening? How to build a “lazy garden” in 3 easy steps.

Growing Food and Medicine: The Good, The Bad and The Heartbreak

Some hard truths about growing food and medicine.

Food forest starter kit: essential tools for a permaculture garden

You need to have the right tool for the job. So what tools are needed for a permaculture garden?

The Unlikely Relationship Between Fear, Cheese, and Permaculture

What happened when I stopped letting fear get in the way of me fulfilling my dreams, or my relationship between fear and cheese.

Cold hardy figs and why you should grow them

Delicious, drought-tolerant, easy to grow…what’s not to love? by Heather Jo Flores I can’t stop eating them. There’s a fig tree at the place where I…

Why do we need to hear more from women in permaculture?

How patriarchy makes us blind to healthy sisterhood, and how to reclaim it back with women in permaculture.

Toward a permaculture for the people

Care of the Earth. Care of people. Fair surplus sharing. For whom? We need a permaculture for the people.

Breaking Down and Building Up

By Gisa Seeholzer Building a community through growing something sustainable can be a challenge. Over the past few months I have learned more and grown…

Honoring the Slope of the Land, with Keylines and Contour

Learn how to use keylines and contour to work with the slope of the land.

GOBRADIMET+ Design process

How to use the GOBRADIMET Design process for working on projects and in groups.

How To Organize a SkillShare and Shift the Culture of Your Community

In this article I will show you how to transform the way your community learns and cooperates, through learning how to organize a skillshare.

Accessing Permaculture for People with Disability and/or Chronic Illness

Permaculture for people with disability- positives, challenges and suggestions for a more inclusive permaculture.

Connection-the Language of Life

Early morning musings on meaning and connection, the language of life.

How to Compost Your Pain

By Dido Dunlop (part of a talk at our New Zealand Permaculture gathering 2015, exploring how we can apply Nature’s ecosystems model to human relationships,…

Thank-you India

A report back from the International Permaculture Conference and Convergence in Hyderabad, India. By Becky Ellis In November 2017, I had the amazing experience of…

This is Why Permaculture Water Design is So Powerful

See where water is being lost or wasted with permaculture water design.

Fertile Resistance and Reconciliation; An Indigenous Woman’s Response to the Recent Global Corporate Seed Mergers

The global seed commons and corporate seed mergers

Top Ten Tips for Gardening on a Budget

Don't have much money? Gardening on a budget is possible to do. Here's how.

Waste Not Want Not: Twelve Rs of Recycling

Here are Twelve Rs of recycling to help guide you on your way to cutting down on waste. It may seem a simple goal, but it can be eye opening, and have surprising repercussions in all aspects of your life.