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How to Build a Garden Retreat from Cob
Michael Buck |
Friday, 23rd September 2011

Two summers ago I decided to build a round thatched cob house in my back garden in Wolvercote, near Oxford. I decided not to use any money and to gather all the materials and energy from the locality. I was inspired to dedicate it to my mother, Mother Earth and...

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How to grow green support networks and set up your own eco DIY forum
Julie Wall |
Monday, 19th September 2011

In 1994 we moved almost five hundred miles away from everything familiar, leaving our family, friends and the city we grew up in behind. We wanted to follow our dream of a healthier, more self-reliant lifestyle on our own smallholding using permaculture methods....

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Agroforestry and fighting poverty with trees - The BusyTrees Campaign
Jessie Bernard |
Sunday, 11th September 2011

Judging from the wonderful crowd we encountered at the London Permaculture fair last July, Permaculture Magazine readers are already well aware of agroforestry (planting trees amongst crops to naturally stabilise and boost production) and the benefits it can bring...

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How to turn a concrete desert into a food jungle
Simon Watkins |
Tuesday, 6th September 2011

Having rattled the cage of the gravel-bound back garden, it's time to turn my attention to the front. If the suffocated soil and dry shade of the back represented a challenge, the front looks like a fool's errand. I'm bequeathed a tidy, concrete-slabbed driveway...

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Taking the Journey Home: Kayaking in the Land of the Northern Lights
Nicola Didsbury |
Wednesday, 31st August 2011

Our adventure starts at base camp, not far from Ivalo, at a campsite on the shore of Lake Inari, in Lapland, northern Finland.

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Outdoor Cooking: how to make a Hobo Stove
Maddy Harland |
Saturday, 27th August 2011

I love camping and cooking outdoors and try to get outside all year round.

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Compost toilet competition: Who's got the finest loo in the land?
Rebecca Gibbs |
Friday, 19th August 2011

We are currently staying at Monkton Wyld Court and I've decided, having sat/crouched on a few, that they could well have the finest compost bog in the country. "Such a bold claim" I hear permies far...

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Going 'home': Connemara Dreaming part 4
Maddy Harland |
Friday, 19th August 2011

My father was born in India two years after WW1. His father was a doctor and, having survived Gallipoli, went on to serve in the Indian Army. His mother had witnessed the Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916. They were both Irish and had romantically eloped.