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Peoplecare Skills

Looby Macnamara

My journey with permaculture started with a design course in Brighton in 1999. The creative way it was taught immediately demonstrated to me that permaculture had more to offer than...

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How farms are using permaculture design to survive and prosper

Louise Cartwright

The rise in fuel prices has seen greater awareness and a wider concern for what life will be like when the oil runs out. This has seen interest in less chemical dependant farming...

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Permaculture Education in Malawi: taking practical skills to rural communities

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Butterfly Space is a unique community space aiming to bring together passionate volunteers and the local community. Community, self-sustainability and the environment are some of...

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5 practical steps for feeling fulfilled

Beth Creedon

We can spend our time concentrating our thoughts so much on the future or the past that we forget to take stock of what there is to be pleased about in our lives today. So here's an...

New Carpet? Insulate First

John Adams
Celebrating 25 years at Sunseed Desert Technology, Spain

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Woodland Co-operation - restoring woodlands and providing volunteers with cheap woodfuel

John Bell

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the Editor's blog

The End of Growth: the Great Unravelling?

Maddy Harland

For four decades, Richard Heinberg has been observing why our current growth based economy is unsustainable. He has written seminal books on peak oil and the global effects of the...

Free Downloads, Useful Sites and Inspiration for 2012

Maddy Harland
Planting Winter Bird Forage

Maddy Harland
Biochar Solutions, Ecocide & Indigenous Inspiration

Maddy Harland

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readers' solutions

Vegan Carrot Cake Recipe

Alasdair Sim

This is a vegan version of a classic carrot cake that always goes down well in the Beech Café at The Sustainability Centre. There are all sorts of flavours intermingling in the cake, from the tang of...

At Least 10 Uses for Wood Ash

Becoming Self-Sufficient

1 - Dust Baths - place cold ashes where your birds can get to them, the dust baths will control bugs

2 - Ring Around the Rosie - spread a low ring around individual plants are gardens to deter...

Oca Homity Pie Recipe

Carl Legge

This wonderful tuber is certainly getting popular. I got involved in identifying a specimen from Jamie Oliver's garden a few days ago . His online editor was after recipe ideas because it was being cooked...

Warm oca salad recipe

Carl Legge

It’s obvious that there’s now a growing band of permie people growing this so-called ‘lost crop’ of the Incas. The tubers could easily be the model for gems or ‘power ups’ in a computer game they are so...

Organic fruit tree management: encouraging predators for red spider mites

Ben Brangwyn
Parsnip and pea pasta with rosemary and black garlic

Carl Legge
Build Your Own Solar & Wind Sound System

Andy Hunt

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Tool share websites offer a cheap and green solution

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Tool share and hiring websites are on the up - could you make use of products you bought but rarely use?

How the 'Hobbit House' has inspired the world

How the 'Hobbit House' has inspired the world

Get A Life, Get A Lifebottle

John Adams

In the UK, in the last decade or so many of us have been converted to drinking bottled water. Personally I have resisted for years but now, even I hardly ever...

Birthrites: Rituals and Celebrations for the Child-bearing Years

Sarah Whedon

Birth is the archetypal rite of passage for a woman, containing the essential elements of any ritual: separation from normal life, a profound transition...

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Earth User's Guide to Permaculture

Graham Burnett

I bought the Earth Users Guide way back in 1994. It was at a time when I'd realised that there was much more to permaculture than making herb spirals and...

The Resilient Gardener: Food production and self-reliance in uncertain times

Carl Legge

The Resilient Gardener is intended to provide some principles of gardening that are sustainable in the light of climate change, disasters, health and financial...

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