The Climate Resilient Community: 30 Years On
Seven years ago we featured Hockerton, an innovative low carbon project. Here Luke and Joy Justice describe why this community has remained so successful.
How a Garden Grows People
Andi Potamkin tells the story of how planting a small garden in a school courtyard has become a 16,500 sq ft educational farm and garden.
Grow Your Own First Aid Patch
The Seed SistAs describe how to design and plant a simple healing garden, a small act of sovereignty and community resilience.
The Permaculture Farm
What makes a permaculture farm? And why are they so important? Mira Illeris and Esben Schultz reveal the multiple aspects of Reforest Farm, a biodiverse 1.5-hectare regenerative farm in a landscape that favours industrial agriculture.
Adopting a Tree Basin
From spectator to participant. The Almenara team explore how planting and caring for trees cultivates connection and a shared purpose.
Land in our Names
Jamila Versi shows how BPOC-centred gardens can be a starting point for essential land justice and reparations.
The Urban Orchard
Anna Locke tells the story of how a community is creating edible landscapes on the south-coast of England.
Tropical Vegetables in a Temperate Climate
Niru Patel shares her experience of growing Asian vegetables in London, alongside friends Hina Joshi and Rishi Shah.
Climate Crisis Cabaret
Meet the scintillating, left-field, satirical and downright funny duo, Fossilheads, who turn gloomy facts into general silliness and conversation that inspire action.
Lost Wildness
Brigit Anna McNeill discovers what the wild can teach us about resilience.
From Golf Course to Thriving Farm
Imagine if we turned intensively mown and irrigated golf courses into permaculture farms. Dr Charlie Brennan, Bridget O’Brien and the Garden Juju Collective did exactly that.
Thermal Mass Self-Watering Glasshouse
Gavin Roberts from Permaculture Island explains how he built a living greenhouse to minimise work and maximise crops.
Farms as Church
Abel Pearson asks us: What are you in service to? Where do you whisper your prayers? Where do you find congregation?
Design your Dream Garden
Pippa Chapman shares her top tips for creating a beautiful, diverse and edible garden that you’ll love to spend time in!
The Solar-Cooled Pantry
Gavin Roberts introduces his ingenious off-grid food storage system for year-round homegrown food.
How We Save Our Rivers
Hamish Evans, a landworker and river dweller, explains how his local community is helping to regenerate the River Avon.
Thinking Like Water
Why managing water for both flood and drought is the most important thing we can do in a changing climate, with Perrine Bulgheroni.
How to go on a Design Adventure
Looby Macnamara shows us how to apply design tools to our everyday lives to become more impactful in the quest for wider cultural change.
Composting Together
Lily Hallam finds commonalities between projects in Uganda and England, and describes how to start your own community composting project.
Grow Your Own Clothes with Flax
Grown for over four millennia, flax is making a comeback as a beautiful fibre that can absorb carbon dioxide as it grows, Brigitte Kaltenbacher reveals all.
21st Century Earthships
Katy Fox describes a European adapted earthship that has become a ‘living laboratory’ and hub for citizen engagement.
The Necessity of Natural Darkness
Yolande Watson explains why dark skies allows humans and nature to thrive.
Beavers: our Freshwater Allies
Beavers are an astonishing keystone species. Eva Bishop explains how they control flood, reduce drought and enable nature to bloom.
Giving the River a Voice
Kim Kaos describes a deep and connected form of activism that respects and represents the sentience of the natural world.