Herbs · Permaculture Women Magazine

Perennial vegetables in a food forest integrated with annual crops. Photo by Heather Jo Flores

100+ Perennial Vegetables for Your Permaculture Food Forest

A beginner-friendly guide to turning your annual garden into a food forest, with a list of over 100 edible perennial vegetables for a variety of climates.

Herbalism and The Great Forgetting

by Matilde Magro Ever think that you might have a…

Explaining regeneration and its expansion beyond the limits of culture

by Matilde Magro There are social, ecological, and spiritual structures…

A Design Cycle Application: GOBRADIMET

Sample design description and activity worksheet for GOBRADIMET.

Strength and Resistance à la Woman

Learning a new way of living from an elder Iranian farmer…

Growing vegetables from Seed

5 tips for growing vegetables from seed successfully

Gardening Diversity in Our Lives and Our Communities

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

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.

What do weeds indicate about your soil?

By Heather Jo Flores What Weeds Indicate About the Condition…

Gaining Ground: 8 places to grow food if you don’t have access to land

For people who have their own yard, starting a garden is easy. But for those who don’t have easy access to land, starting a garden takes a little more effort.

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

There are plenty of good reasons to develop a skill…

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

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

Some hard truths about growing food and medicine.

Eat the Weeds! Edible weeds you’re probably already growing

12 Delicious and Nutritious Edible Weeds and How to Include Them in Your Diet

Dry stone walls are a significant part of the landscape in many parts of the world. They are built in places where there are plenty of stones nearby, and where trees don’t thrive well enough to create hedges or to provide materials for fencing.

Permaculture Boundaries and Base Maps

How to create accurate base maps.

Emergent Herbalism; plants, people, and culture

The cross-cultural use of herbs and herbal medicine has experienced a significant resurgence in the past several decades. This emergent herbalism has become a popular method of alternative medicine as well as a profitable commercial industry.

Increase vitality, joy and love

Increase vitality through connection with common weeds, examine your attitude to nettle and dandelion to bring you back to life.

Thank-you India

A report back from the International Permaculture Conference and Convergence…

Seed saving for beginners

Whether you are an old expert at seed stewardship or…

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.

Bringing Nature Inside

Some ideas for improving access to nature connection if you, or someone you are close to, has an illness or disability meaning they find it difficult to be outdoors and need to bring nature inside.

Self-Seeding Plants in the Garden Farm

Surprise yourself in the garden with self-seeding plants.

Earth Based Spirituality and Permaculture — The 5 Elements as a Design Tool

Earth Based Spirituality, using Earth, fire, air, water and spirit to as a tool to design my journey to Andalucía.

Eat With The Seasons: basics of food preservation

Harvest time blesses with abundance, a good time to know the basics of food preservation.

Problem is the solution: keeping it simple

We’ve now gone so far beyond what is appropriate for our culture, for our health, and for the planet that it is time to bring technology back to scale. The problem is the solution.

DIY Herbal Skin Care

Home herbal skin care recipes

For the Love of Fermentation: basics of fermentation

Here's some recipes to help you get started with the basics of fermentation.

Herbal Elixirs and Infusions

Need any recipes for medicinal herbs? Herbal elixirs involve steeping medicinal herbs in honey or, maple syrup, sometimes combining them with brandy or other alcohol, or fermenting them, such as medicinal meads.