Marit Parker

Can I Grow This Here? Plant Selection Basics

A guide to plant selection for a perennial polyculture garden.

How to Make Your Garden More Accessible

A straightforward way to think through accessibility in your garden and plan improvements.

Marit Parker

Wales, UK. Marit Parker has been learning about permaculture for over 25 years, and applying it not just to gardening and farming but also in her work tackling inequalities and social exclusion, in particular with people with disabilities and learning difficulties.

Getting Ready for Lambing

Lambing indoors is easier to deal with emergencies quickly. It also protects the newborn lambs from foxes.

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?

Food forest starter kit: essential tools for a permaculture garden

You need to have the right tool for the job. So what tools are needed for a permaculture garden?

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.

Dry Stone Walls

Dry stone walls are a significant part of the landscape in many parts of the world. They are built in places where there are plenty of stones nearby, and where trees don’t thrive well enough to create hedges or to provide materials for fencing.

What’s so permanent about permaculture?

Permanent permaculture, is it possible?

What is Rewilding? Here’s another view

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

Community Woodlands: Nurturing trees and people

Through observing community woodlands principles of nature become important.

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.

Decolonising learning

What needs to be done for decolonising learning?

What’s permaculture got to do with the housing crisis?

In the current housing crisis, most people are stuck in rented housing, paying high rents for what is often poor quality housing far from the permaculture dream of one's own home.