Money · Permaculture Women Magazine

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.

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.

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?

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

Some hard truths about growing food and medicine.

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:…

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.`

My Daily Permaculture Diet-Integral Health Series (2)

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

Matavenero

The time I visited the oldest ecocommunity in Spain By Elena Pollen Long before moving to Spain, or, a few months actually, my partner &…

Permaculture Boundaries and Base Maps

How to create accurate base maps.

How to let go: a permaculture mental health strategy

releasing old pain by dealing with grief, caring for your body, making art, and getting dirty

Thou Shalt Not Unhamster

By Julia Pereira Dias Not everyone is frustrated about not having followed their dreams. I know a number of wonderful people that live the ‘normal…

Seed Journal — Using Permaculture To Create A New Planner Reflection Tool

Make a seed journal to record any ideas and visions that you would like to see grow.

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,…

What is Ecofeminism? In a nutshell — how to save the world

What is Ecofeminism? The five elements are one way to explain.

Harvesting Abundance: Another Twist on the Third Permaculture Ethic

Different perspectives on the third permaculture ethic

A survival guide to teenage drama that just gets worse with age

A survival guide to teenage drama to make sure you’re not depleting your renewable resources to the point your internal landscape turns into a barren land (at least as friendships are concerned.)