Gardening · Permaculture Women Magazine

The garden in the mind, your mind on your garden

Education and gradual friendly change is more way effective than division.

Northern Bayberry for Permaculture Income

Permaculture For Renters

If you live in the city, that doesn’t mean you can’t grow your own fruits and veggies! By using a few simple strategies, you can enjoy fresh homegrown fruits and veggies, year round.

Permaculture in the City: a sampler of inspiring urban agriculture projects

10 urban gardens that will inspire you to grow food no matter where you live

Spiritual gardening, the way out of suffering.

Ever walked along a Chinese garden, public or private, urban or rural? It’s interesting maybe for you to know that if you did, it taught…

The Right Question

For most of my career as advisor for Results Based Monitoring (RBM) I supported government and NGO teams in changing their perspective and approach to…

Seed Saving: If not us, who?

What does the 2008 crisis, illegal drug cartels, your mental health and seed saving have in common? A lot more than you’d think.

Abundance Mindset, Scarcity Mindset

Are you able to approach life with an abundance mindset?

Tales from the Underground: types of root vegetables to grow

How many types of root vegetables do you grow?

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.

Plants as friends and family members

Reclaiming our sense of belonging. By Luiza Oliveira Looking at the many roots from my multi-racial family, I realized that most of my family background…

Musings on pandemics, food sovereignty and everyday life

What are the real costs of our current food system? How do we find food sovereignty?

Buddhist Meditation and Regenerative Culture

By Dido Dunlop Our hearts and outer world grow hearty together To restore Mother Nature, and grow tomatoes in our cities, we must redesign our inner…

Strength and Resistance à la Woman

Learning a new way of living from an elder Iranian farmer By Kali Morgan Of late, I have been consumed by the stories of strong, bold,…

Growing vegetables from Seed

5 tips for growing vegetables from seed successfully

It’s not enough to be an environmentalist. We must be anti-racist environmentalists.

Racism and climate change are linked in many ways. We must be anti-racist environmentalists.

Benefits of Prunella Vulgaris: Self heal, the wonder weed

Learn the benefits of Prunella Vulgaris. Self heal, heal-all, woundwort, heart-of-the-earth, carpenter’s herb, brownwort and blue curls are just some of the names this flower go by.

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.

Am I Racist?

The first question I have to ask myself is am I racist?

Celtic Wisdom and Regenerative Culture — After Corona Virus

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

16 Best Edible Perennials to Plant Now

Sure wins & long shot edible perennials for aspiring “lazy gardeners”

In-Situ Composting in Your Garden

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

Creativity and Parenting

How to reconcile creativity and parenting

Doulas and Permaculture

Doulas and permaculture ethics.

Cock-a-doodle-doo

after the dark night the rooster announces the light By Ginkgo Biloba I remember well a sunset from more than two years ago. I was…

To Bamboo or Not to Bamboo, and is there such a thing as non-spreading bamboo?

By Heather Jo Flores I recently received an interesting question from a reader,and it seemed like a great topic for this month’s column. She writes:“I…

12 Ways To Use Permaculture In Your Daily Life

It might not be obvious how to use permaculture in your daily life, but this article will show you how.

How to Learn Permaculture for Free

A hands-on guide for the frugal beginner to learn permaculture without spending any money.

Quarantine is my Refining Fire

There’s no time like the present to deal with put-off problems. By Kali Morgan It’s ironic that coronavirus showed its ugly face right at the…

12 Plants to Grow When Gardening with Children

By Heather Jo Flores By no means an exhaustive selection of great plants for gardening with children, the following twelve plants can all be direct-sown,…

Ten Medicinal Flowers that I always plant in every garden

By Heather Jo Flores I am primarily a food gardener, but there are a handful of flowering medicinal plants that I always include in my…

The Small Beauties and The Universe of Wonders

By Luiza Oliveira By the Spontaneously Creative Plants and a Human Hello, Little Flower. Hello, “Giant” Person. I didn’t see you here a few days ago.…