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How farms are using permaculture design to survive and prosper

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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...

Insulating under the floor

New Carpet? Insulate First

John Adams

In the middle of topping up my loft insulation to current standards, my wife informs me that she has ordered a new carpet for our downstairs guest room. I had realized long ago that...

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
Multifunctional small green roofs: drought-proof shelters with wildlife habitats

Tim Green

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the Editor's blog

Free Downloads, Useful Sites and Inspiration for 2012

Maddy Harland

2012 is a turning point. Of this be sure. It is our opportunity for positive change, yet most of us sense that the transition from the fossil fuel based hierarchical societies...

Planting Winter Bird Forage

Maddy Harland
Biochar Solutions, Ecocide & Indigenous Inspiration

Maddy Harland
The power of poetry to move us to action

Maddy Harland

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readers' solutions

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

Red spider mites harm apple, pear, plum and other fruit trees. They injure foliage by feeding with piercing mouthparts and removing cell contents, including chlorophyll. Heavy mite feeding early in the...

Parsnip and pea pasta with rosemary and black garlic

Carl Legge

Parsnips have been cooked in Europe since Roman times. Famous Roman foodie Apicius recorded four recipes in his De Re Coquinaria including Coriander Parsnips Cooked in Wine. Another interesting...

Build Your Own Solar & Wind Sound System

Andy Hunt

How to build a complete solar and wind powered mobile disco/mini rave sound system to entertain your family and friends!

As a fun project I have built a solar and wind powered sound system, which...

Small-scale hugelkultur in raised beds

Brad Rowland
How to make a bamboo polytunnel

Sunseed Desert Technology
Make your own simple rocket stove for free

Andy Hunt

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Tool share websites offer a cheap and green solution

permaculture.co.uk

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

Seeds of Freedom – what will our future be?

Seeds of Freedom – what will our future be?

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...

THE EARTH CARE MANUAL – A Permaculture Handbook For Britain & Other Temperate Climates

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This seminal work by permaculture teacher, Patrick Whitefield, has since its publication in 2004 been variously acclaimed: 'visionary, yet practical' (RHS The...

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