Spring 2015 (PM 83)
| The Wonders of Woodchip |
| Wade Muggleton visits an amazing allotment that needs no digging or watering |
| Wild Animals and how to recognise their signs |
| Patrick Whitefield shares how spotting animal signs is just one aspect of how we can learn to read our landscapes and their history. |
| Pallet Bench Project |
| John Adams explains how to build a comfortable, two seater garden bench using only scrap pallets and a handful of screws. |
| Upcycling an Old Barn |
| How Stuart and Gabrielle Anderson have given new life to a 200 year old cob and stone barn using a variety of materials and techniques. |
| Farming With Nature |
| Maddy Harland visits Rebecca Hosking on her farm in Devon. |
| Hotbeds and Their Many Uses |
| Master of organic, no-dig gardening, Charles Dowding explains how to make and use them. |
| Growing Health and Happiness |
| Rozie Apps discovers a South African permaculture project that teaches urban people how to grow food and start new enterprises. |
| How to Plan and Plant a Forest Garden |
| Graham Burnett explains how a food forest can be grown on balcony, urban garden or allotment... it’s all down to the planning. |
| What is Permaculture? |
| Maddy Harland explores the ‘original’ permaculture principles set out by Bill Mollison. |
| Tree Beekeeping |
| Jonathan Powell explores the ancient practice of tree beekeeping, a low intervention form of beekeeping using a living tree. |
| Scrap Upcycling – It’s a Steal! READ NOW |
| Steve Hanson shows how he turns scrap into desirable green woodworking tools. |
| The Many Uses of Udo |
| Stephen Barstow invites you to savour a remarkable wild edible, Udo. |
| Willows, Wetlands & Wee |
| Féidhlim Harty looks at some eco-friendly solutions to the problems of dealing with domestic wastewater. |
| Growing Youthful Solutions |
| Ryan Blosser and Jenna Clarke – Project GROWS healing both the community and the land. |
| Play Time |
| Mike Jones – how play is a key ingredient in our ability to adapt to new evolutionary challenges. |
Winter 2014 (PM 82)
| LOW IMPACT LIVING...AT SEA |
| Joshua Msika and his family crossed the Atlantic on a small yacht without an engine and learned the art of resilience and voluntary simplicity. |
| DIY WICKING RAISED BED |
| John Adams explains how to build a self-watering raised bed for free - well almost - using pallets and other scavenged materials. |
| RESTART - REPAIRING THE UNREPAIRABLE |
| Janet Gunther describes the Restart Project that fixes consumer electronics, those sleek minimalist boxes you aren’t meant to open! |
| THE 'FAMILY' PERMACULTURE GARDEN |
| Why permaculture is perfect for the urban family garden by Neil Kingsnorth. |
| THE BEAUTY OF HERITAGE APPLES |
| Wade Muggleton celebrates the local distinctiveness of the apple and suggests you look close to home when choosing varieties to plant. |
| SILKIES - PERFECT HENS FOR SMALL GARDENS READ NOW |
| Kay Hebbourn explains the benefits of the Silkie chicken breed – small, docile and great pest controllers. |
| GUBA: GROWING RESILIENT COMMUNITIES |
| The story of an inspirational permaculture project in Swaziland told by its co-founder Emma Granville and Guba volunteers. |
| THE NOT SO GREEN REVOLUTION |
| Kristof and Stacia Nordin describe why the ‘green revolution’ hasn’t worked and present the alternatives. |
| EXTREME GARDENING |
| Jennifer Lauruol visits a productive garden in the Outer Hebrides, on a steep slope with high winds and poor soil, that proves good gardeners can grow food anywhere! |
| WHAT IS PERMACULTURE? |
| In the first of a four part series, Maddy Harland explains the three ethics of permaculture: Earth Care, People Care and Fair Shares. |
| CHOOSING SUSTAINABLE TEXTILES |
| A Guide to Eco Fashion & Ethical Materials by Rozie Apps. Case study by Poppy Nicol. |
| THE ART OF STRAWCRAFT |
| Amanda Davies explains the many uses of straw and the importance of maintaining the craft. |
| WHERE THE HEART ZONE RULES |
| Jenni Blackmore lives in Nova Scotia, Canada and lives and gardens by the North Atlantic. She explains why her ‘inner’ permaculture is as important as her outer yields. |
| PEOPLE CARE IN ACTION |
| Kerry Lane and Deborah Simmonds introduce useful tools and techniques for small gatherings and group work. |
| 10 YEARS TO SAVE THE PLANET |
| Maddy Harland talks to Professor Tim O’Riordan about new science, climate change and transitioning to a low carbon world. |
Autumn 2014 (PM 81)
| FOOD UNITES US |
| The Food is Free Project is waging peace through gardening in the USA and beyond, as Crystal Stevens describes. |
| 7 WAYS TO THINK DIFFERENTLY |
| People & Permaculture author Looby Macnamara talks to Maddy Harland. |
| THE PERMACULTURE ECOLOGY OF BEES |
| Philip Chandler explains the difference between conventional, natural and balanced beekeeping and the need to reappraise the way we keep bees. |
| HORTICULTURAL THERAPY |
| An inspiring story of how permaculture can be applied to enhance the lives of even the most physically challenged, by Rozie Apps. |
| IS RENEWABLE ENERGY REALLY VIABLE? |
| Keith Barnham introduces a German project that proves why the lights won’t go out with 100% renewable electricity. |
| IN SEARCH OF THE SIMPLE LIFE |
| How Steve Golemboski-Byrne and his wife Claire’s dreams of self-building and living in an ecovillage took them instead to a cottage in need of eco-renovation on a smallholding and an existing community in Northern Ireland. |
| I DO THEREFORE I EVOLVE |
| Mick Collins explores how we, humanity, can step up and solve our global problems. |
| THE DIY ORCHARD |
| Wade Muggleton explains how to create your own orchard on the cheap by using simple grafting techniques. |
| TYING THE KNOT ON A SHOESTRING |
| How Matthew Douglas and his wife, Martina, held a wedding blessing and reception for 70 guests with just £1,200 to spend on everything. |
| RESTORING AGRICULTURE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN |
| Dan McTiernan describes how regenerative agriculture is transforming olive groves in Spain and introduces transnational cropsharing. |
| WANT TO START A REVOLUTION? START A REFORESTATION PROJECT |
| You think this is too ambitious an idea? Andreas Kornevall urges us all to do it and tells us how! |
| 10 TIPS FOR PLANNING SUCCES |
| Thinking of buying land and setting up a permaculture project? Suki Montague offers advice for planning applications. |
| ZONE 5 - A SPACE FOR NATURE |
| Permaculture always tries to make space for a wild, uncultivated area, but is this the right way of integrating nature? asks Stuart Anderson. |
| YOUR SMARTPHONE/TABLET DESIGN TOOLKIT READ NOW |
| Aranya explores the world of apps and rates the ones useful for permaculture design. |