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We can do better: Resources and Options for Solidarity with Queer people in permaculture.

Resources for the queer people in permaculture

A Design Cycle Application: GOBRADIMET

Sample design description and activity worksheet for GOBRADIMET.

Musings on pandemics, food sovereignty and everyday life

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

How to make Sauerkraut: the Gateway to Home Ferments

All you need is cabbage, salt, and to remember a few important details

Cracking the underwear code: make your own underwear

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

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

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…

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.…

What permaculture is and isn’t

Hint: it’s NOT a revolution disguised as gardening.

How to make gazpacho from homegrown tomatoes

By HeatherJo Flores Gazpacho is often called a “cold soup” by gringos, but around here, it’s served over ice as an afternoon drink on hot…

The Poetic Garden

By the Spontaneously Creative Plants By Luiza Oliveira I come along when winter is no longer around. I thrive where others find too hard to be,…

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…

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

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…

My Daily Permaculture Diet-Integral Health Series (2)

Applying permaculture principles to our planet's health and our own integral health.

Are you in Right Relation?

What it means to live in right relation

A Long Way Home

By Helen iles It’s early morning. The sun is already flooding the woodland scene outside my window, when a robin hops onto the patio table…

How to Make Kombucha

Here's what you need to know about how to make kombucha.

Review: Life Design Card Deck By Lisa Mcloughlin

Do you need some help organizing your life? Here is my life design card deck review.

My Daily Permaculture Diet -Integral Health Series (1)

What is a Permaculture Diet? What is a Permaculture Principle?

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.

Women in Permaculture: Why should you learn permaculture from women?

By Silvia Di Blasio “I raise up my voice — not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard…we cannot succeed…

On permaculture, entitlement, and that pesky third ethic: all aboard the elephant in the room

By Heather Jo Flores “Contact with the soil reminds us that we are an integral part of nature, rather than feeling shut out and excluded.…

Send a Care Bear Stare: Progressives & Permaculture in the Rural Heartland

Finding permaculture in America.

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.

Towards a Socially Sustainable Permaculture — Some Practical Steps

How do we move towards a socially sustainable permaculture?

Beauty Tips for Women Who Garden

What is beauty? Here are some beauty tips for gardeners.

The Power of Collaboration: Why I chose to teach in the Women’s Online Permaculture Design Course

Learn about the collaborative women’s online permaculture design course

Finding Home

Microclimate, finding home & a sense of place

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.