Resilience · Permaculture Women Magazine

“Design for Catastrophe” in Your Livelihood

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

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

Resources for the queer people in permaculture

Abundance Mindset, Scarcity Mindset

Are you able to approach life with an abundance mindset?

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…

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…

Gardening Diversity in Our Lives and Our Communities

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

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…

Disaster Preparedness and Resilience Planning

Permaculture path to resilience and disaster preparedness.

Book Review: Think Like a Tree by Sarah Spencer

A newbook about the life lessons we can learn from trees. Think Like a Tree by Sarah Spencer book review.

Planting Trees to Feed Future Generations

Permaculture approaches to feeding the world in a changing climate, planting trees to feed future generations.

How To Organize a SkillShare and Shift the Culture of Your Community

In this article I will show you how to transform the way your community learns and cooperates, through learning how to organize a skillshare.

On people care, cultural emergence and the mindset of abundance — a conversation with Looby Macnamara

The problems we have with Earth care really stem from the people care side of things

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.

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.

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,…

Harvesting Abundance: Another Twist on the Third Permaculture Ethic

Different perspectives on the third permaculture ethic

Why my farm isn’t a “Permaculture Farm”

As we integrate into living, working farm communities, it’s important to remember that a permaculture farm is not a new idea.

Reasons to be fearful

By Gudrun Cartwright At the weekend I was out cycling in the New Forest. It was a beautiful day and all was well with my…

Living on the Edges

One of the many things that I connect with in permaculture, is that ‘edges are where the action is’. I have spent my whole life…

Permaculture sector analysis: identifying risks and designing solutions

Permaculture sector analysis is about designing the world we want while acknowledging the realities of the world we live in.

Design Thinking: Cultivating a Designer’s Mind

Design thinking, be intentional and present with your process.

Fertile Resistance and Reconciliation; An Indigenous Woman’s Response to the Recent Global Corporate Seed Mergers

The global seed commons and corporate seed mergers

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.

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.…

How to make the best of an Online Permaculture Design Course

There's extra flexibility and time when you take an online permaculture design course

The Art of Hosting within permaculture

What does it mean to host yourself and others in these deep times? And how does that connect with permaculture?What is the Art of Hosting?

Self-Seeding Plants in the Garden Farm

Surprise yourself in the garden with self-seeding plants.

urban sustainability: creating a regenerative city

Urban sustainability and the possibilities of urban permaculture

Transition Economics: Principles of Financial Permaculture

Financial permaculture in action

Perennial Tomatoes in the Frozen North

Experimenting in over-wintering annuals for resilience and food security (and perennial tomatoes!)

Howling at the Moon: Communication and Connection for Healing the Pack

Howling at the moon is an analogy for describing clear and heart-centered communication established with yourself first and then extended to another.

Principles of Presence:

Applying Permaculture Design and Integral Theory to Personal Development By Jennifer English Morgan The image of a woman wearing a golden straw hat with a…

The Elephant at the Front Door: A Designers Approach to Shadow Work

By Jennifer English Morgan Crash, clatter, smash, tink, tink. A careless boy’s ball shatters the front window pane. A scorned lover flings a picture frame…

Permaculture on the edge

Building an anti/beyond/despite capitalist movement By Becky Ellis Permaculture is a philosophy and set of practices aimed at creating regenerative human spaces that mimic natural…