Livelihood · Permaculture Women Magazine

Regenerating Our Reality through Circular Economy

Circular economy is not just a big concept for governments and economists, but something real that we can immediately put into practice as individuals.

My Permaculture Wealth Building Journey

Permaculture offers a rich toolkit for designing for holistic abundance not only in our landscapes, but our personal finances as well.

“Design for Catastrophe” in Your Livelihood

How to become more resilient by preparing for when the crap hits the fan

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.

5 Reasons You Should Take this Online Permaculture Design Course

Best online permaculture course for women and by women

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…

Hierarchies vs Networks

Governments vs people power, hierarchies vs networks and response to crisis.

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.

A Simple Meditation for Pandemic, Climate Emergency and Other Disasters

By Dido Dunlop In times like now, our emotional strength and resilience can feel drained away. It can seem like our inner resources are not…

In-Situ Composting in Your Garden

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

How to Free Yourself from Expectations

By Julia Pereira Dias Nothing causes as much frustration as unmet expectations. In fact, I dare say that every single time we suffer, get mad,…

Finding Permaculture in Iran

Despite what Western media commonly reports, there is permaculture in Iran.

How to Learn Permaculture for Free

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

What do weeds indicate about your soil?

By Heather Jo Flores What Weeds Indicate About the Condition of Your Soil “Weeds are weeds only from our human egotistical point of view, because they…

Do you want to teach permaculture? Here’s what you need to know.

10 steps to becoming a qualified permaculture teacher, and recommended teacher training programs, from the PWG Faculty.

Top 20+ Best Permaculture Books by Women

A curated collection of top-notch permaculture books by women you might not have heard about.

Why I use permaculture for everything

an ode to the principles and processes of nature as applied to teaching and organizing my writing career

Why should farmers get subsidies?

Over recent years, there has been a growing resentment about the subsidies farmers receive. But why do farmers get subsidies anyway?

6 Steps to Befriend Your Fears and Get a Life

By Julia Pereira Dias I could start the article by suggesting that the corona virus was designed and spread by the toilet paper industry, but…

Ecofeminism and Permaculture

Personal and world transformation with ecofeminism and permaculture.

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…

Regenerative Right Livelihood: a pattern for shifting towards life-honoring work

It's difficult to live in a way that doesn't harm the planet. What would a Regenerative Right Livelihood look like?

How can our we create regenerative livelihoods?

What would a regenerative livelihood look like to you?

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

Some hard truths about growing food and medicine.

Small-scale farmers — not lab-based foods — can help save the planet

Over the past few decades there has been a consolidating of power and control in the food system into the hands of a small group of agro-chemical corporations, we need more small-scale farmers to produce healthy organic food.

Chicken shed dilemmas! Mistakes are tools for learning…

If the fox is getting too much to eat then it's time for a chicken shed.

Everyone is Fake!

By Julia Pereira Dias Few terms get the heat up as quickly as ‘fake’ these days. Everybody hates the fakes. Except here is the truth:…

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.

Ethical Marketing: Pro-Tips for Your Right Livelihood

Essential tips for online entrepreneurs, especially if you’re relatively new at this and have spent any time at all resisting learning about “marketing” because it’s yucky.`