Web of Life
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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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.co.uk

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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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

permaculture.co.uk

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

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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...

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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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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...

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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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