Voices Of Women In Permaculture

Start Where You are: Discovery at Zone 00

In times when you feel overrun by forces outside of your control, contemplating and designing the life you want to live is important self-care.

Teachings of the Thistle

An exploration of an alternative view on a common perennial weed: approaching with curiosity, gratitude and a sense of reciprocity.

Herbalism and The Great Forgetting

by Matilde Magro Ever think that you might have a cat’s superpower knowing just the right herbs to take for your particular body/ailment/prevention? I’m here…

Explaining regeneration and its expansion beyond the limits of culture

by Matilde Magro There are social, ecological, and spiritual structures that link the human world to the rest of the living on this planet and…

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.

The role of the farmer in a thriving agro-ecological system

A critical exploration of the concepts of balance and self-sustenance as applied in permaculture and ecological agriculture.

Rights of Nature

If I had to write the rights of Nature, I’d include these.

Marina Nobre: Reforestation is more than planting trees.

The seed knows what it does and how it does it.

When we don’t know enough, what good does opinion do?

"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance" --Plato

Growing Old With Permaculture

How much thought have you given to aging? Using the permaculture design process, consider creating a plan for your elder years.

A Manifest for the Embodiment of Imperfection

We all want to become better, fitter, happier. As long as we believe in guilt and shame, though, self-improvement is bound to make us suffer.

Community Building: Social and Spiritual Permaculture for Intentional Communities and Transition Towns

Our ecovillage set up ‘invisible structures’, to build a strong community, to work together well, from practical land care to our deepest vision.

Food and water are the baselines of every culture. We will neglect every single thing good about any culture until we understand why people eat and how they eat, and how passed down from generations and generations the “question of food” really is. There is no healing at all until one heals its relationship with food.

Why It Is So Hard To Love Ourselves

When we struggle with frustrations, overwhelm, anger, anxiety, our family members or keeping our socks together in pairs, there is this one advice we hear often:

Questioning role-models

I think some of us have given up on trying to reach remaining humans outside of our bubbles.

What is zone 00 design and why should you start yours?!

I don’t know you, but for me, reading self-development books has always been intensely frustrating.

What Indigenous spiritual knowledge can teach us about regenerative design

Native stories about natural spirits which comprise the reality of things can help us a lot in thinking in regenerative terms.

Reappropriating our inherent natural culture

by Matilde Magro Whether you follow me on Medium, Facebook, or Instagram you’re well aware that I think a lot about how to solve our…

How to learn humility for a better tomorrow

by Matilde Magro Step by step guide of 10 easy ways to reconnect with yourself and to love the life you live. 1. Recognize kinship with…

Lessons From A Tree: Living and Creating With Earth As Play

Am I done with choosing struggle? What would it be like to navigate the unknown with play? This is the story of how a tree showed me a way.

My 10-Point Plan for Feral Eldership

I only wish to become old if I can also become an elder.

Embers of Hope: Embracing Life in an Age of Ecological Destruction and Climate Chaos

The future of life on Earth is uncertain and our lifetimes are finite. Consider our own deaths as well as the possibilities of climate catastrophe.

Watering Our Seeds

There is resilience in everything..in seeds too..and perhaps plants learn resilience as they grow.

Kindness Circles, surrounding community

It’s interesting how a simple act of kindness can multiply itself into thousands of good deeds in a short time, but how does that happen?

For your inspiration: Sabarmatee

A woman and her father gathered their know-how, investments and time, and turned 90 acres into a lush edible forest. Here’s their story. “Every expert…

Spiritual gardening, the way out of suffering.

Ever walked along a Chinese garden, public or private, urban or rural? It’s interesting maybe for you to know that if you did, it taught…

We are Stitch (Let’s be Lilo!)

Stitched up as we are I figure we can Lilo it out of here! Recently I read another article about how it’s now considered fact; we…

Benefits of Purging

Did you know that the primary definition of purging — before involving your bowels or getting rid of stuff — is this: a : to clear of guilt b : to…

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…

Approaching menopause as a childfree woman

By Gudrun Cartwright As a woman in my late forties, I am definitely approaching menopause. I feel in that ‘peri’ state. Even though I am…

War, what is it good for?

War, what is it good for? We need more compassion and understanding.

Confronting Shame — The Last Door

By Julia Pereira Dias Shame spits into your romantic dinner. Shame coughs blood on the hands that reach out. Shame laughs its ugly cackle at…

Archetypes and the power to transform

By Priya Logan I previously wrote a post about identifying and even celebrating your “inputs and outputs”, as a human that is a complicated, sometimes…

Taking stock before the stork: using permaculture to plan with pregnancy

Permaculture approaches to landing during pregnancy. By Priya Logan As a birth doula and mother of fifteen years and counting I often see and distincly…

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…

Start Where You are: Discovery at Zone 00

Herbalism and The Great Forgetting

Explaining regeneration and its expansion beyond the limits of culture

Rights of Nature

Marina Nobre: Reforestation is more than planting trees.

Life in symphony

Why It Is So Hard To Love Ourselves

How to learn humility for a better tomorrow

My 10-Point Plan for Feral Eldership

Watering Our Seeds

For your inspiration: Sabarmatee

Spiritual gardening, the way out of suffering.

We are Stitch (Let’s be Lilo!)

Benefits of Purging

The Right Question

Approaching menopause as a childfree woman

War, what is it good for?

Confronting Shame — The Last Door

Taking stock before the stork: using permaculture to plan with pregnancy