| Singing a more Natural Song |
| Hildur Jackson visits EcoVillage at Ithaca and receives a warm welcome, despite the climate |
| Fertile Relationships |
| Alzena Wilmot and Rik Humphreys describe a way of growing healthy vegetables on poor soil |
| A Dip in a Natural Swimming Pool |
| Maddy Harland takes a dip in a natural swimming pool at ZEGG and finds out how they built it |
| Planning a Polytunnel |
| How to buy, site and erect a polytunnel. Ever-practical reader, Mark Smith, shares the benefits of his experience |
| Grow Your Own Building |
| Alan Cameron-Duff and Annabel Fawcus show that building with cob is easy and great fun. Dip your hands in the mud and have a go! |
| In Search of Peace and Tranquility |
| Is relocating in Southern Greece a route to paradise or a road to hell? Linda Vincent tells her story |
| Eat Less Meat |
| Clive Davidson makes no bones about how eating too much meat damages the land, water resources and health |
| Eco-Toad Hits the Road |
| When Pooran Desai has a mid-life crisis he doesn’t do it by halves! |
| Beyond Potatoes |
| Patrick Whitefield describes how a permaculture family make a diverse living from the land in Ireland |
| TO BOLDLY GO |
| Jean Armin returns to a recurrent readers’ fascination - the construction of a DIY compost toilet. |
| THE BUNKHOUSE GARDEN |
| Patrick Whitefield describes a garden he designed that has to feed a group of visitors in very specific periods of the year. |
| THE WOODLAND RENAISSANCE |
| Tino Rawnsley argues passionately that the wholesale regeneration of coppicing with its allied skills and enterprises is a key to a more sustainable Britain. |
| FROM PLANT TO PAINTBOX |
| Kathleen Askew explains how to make your own watercolours from fruit and flowers. |
| Kathleen Askew explains how to make your own watercolours from fruit and flowers. |
| Last summer Hildur Jackson visited a remarkable ecovillage project in Hungary. |
| RUNNING A DIESEL ENGINE ON VEGETABLE OIL |
| How Darren Hill converted his vehicles to biodiesel and solved a few problems. |
| MIX YOUR VEGETABLES & REAP THE REWARDS |
| How to share light, time and companions in the vegetable garden by Patrick Whitefield. |
| THE POWER OF SUPPLY & DEMAND |
| Paul Wagland investigates green electricity. |
| NATURAL PAINTS |
| The art and craft of making natural paints and finishes by Lynn Edwards. |
| CREATING AN ECO-KITCHEN |
| How George Marshall made his DIY solid wood kitchen for a song. |
| SUNNY SIDE SHADY SIDE |
| How to make the best of sun and shade in the domestic garden by the ever practical Patrick Whitefield. |
| PLANNING FOR CHANGE |
| With planning policies under review in Britain, Simon Fairlie reports on the inequities of the system and argues how it could be changed for the better. |
| DOWNSHIFTING BACK TO FRONT |
| How Jennie and Ian Lock left their country idyll for a market town and discovered neighbours. |
| RECHARGING THE SOIL |
| Jane Cobbald offers a taste of the ideas and work of Austrian visionary and inventor, Viktor Schauberger. |
| STORING YOUR SURPLUS Part 2 |
| Low-tech and effective ways of drying and storing food by Kate McEvoy. |