Soil

Permaculture Boundaries and Base Maps

How to create accurate base maps.

Honoring the Slope of the Land, with Keylines and Contour

Learn how to use keylines and contour to work with the slope of the land.

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

Re-thinking the Scale of Permanence

Adding social layers to the scale of permanence

Accessing Permaculture for People with Disability and/or Chronic Illness

Permaculture for people with disability- positives, challenges and suggestions for a more inclusive permaculture.

What is Rewilding? Here’s another view

What is Rewilding? Is rewilding a way of off-setting normal life?

Reasons to Grow Calendula

If you’re brainstorming the coming season’s garden and are looking for a low-maintenance, multi-use, beautiful, and long-blooming flower, look no further, grow calendula!

How to Compost Your Pain

By Dido Dunlop (part of a talk at our New…

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.

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.

Book Review: Water in Plain Sight by Judith D Schwartz

A new book about how we are altering our access to water, Water in Plain Sight by Judith D Schwartz reviewed

Permies of the world unite!

A manifesto for an internationalist permaculture movement By Becky Ellis…

Reasons to be fearful

By Gudrun Cartwright At the weekend I was out cycling…

How to combat writer’s anxiety: top tips from permaculture women writers.

Writing makes my stomach hurt. By Laura Bee I love writing.…

Using Cultural Emergence for Social and Environmental Change

What is Cultural Emergence?

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.

This is Why Permaculture Water Design is So Powerful

See where water is being lost or wasted with permaculture water design.

Standing Rock and the Battle to Regain our Humanity

Standing Rock became, not just a simple protest, but a working, living example of what was possible, what could be done.

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

The global seed commons and corporate seed mergers

Permaculture Design: Outside the Box…and Into Nature

Get unstuck and wild with your own permaculture design

Top Ten Tips for Gardening on a Budget

Don't have much money? Gardening on a budget is possible to do. Here's how.

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.

Strategies for urban land access

Urban land access can be difficult but there are ways to get past this barrier.

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…

Design anything with the GOBRADIME permaculture design process

An easy, circular permaculture design process for gardens, community projects,…

Worm Composting for Beginners

A beginner’s guide to worm composting

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.

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!)

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.

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.