| 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. |
| CREATING CEREMONY |
| Ideas and stories from Glennie Kindred and Lu Garner about how to contact the sacred in our lives. |
| MAKING A SPLASH! |
| Paul Wagland reports on two natural swimming pools recently installed by Michael Littlewood. |
| HOW TO MAKE A DIY WORMERY |
| Reader, Paul Webster, shares his inexpensive and easy to make worm bin design. |
| SEEDLESS GRAPES FOR COOL CLIMATES |
| Avid grape collector, Brian Edwards, invited his friends to a tasting and shares the results with us. |
| HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS IN THE GARDEN |
| Dr Mark Fisher introduces companion planting and describes how to plant guilds for healthy, robust gardens and farms. |
| A DREAM COME TRUE? |
| How Duarte Câmara made his dream of peace and plenty come true in beautiful Madeira. |
| PLANTING A NEW WOODLAND Part 1 |
| Patrick Whitefield takes a look at what to consider when designing and planting a wood. |
| BUILDING WITH STRAW BALES Part 1 |
| Barbara Jones gives a detailed appraisal of straw bale building in a damp climate. |
| LIVING STREETS |
| Ben Plowden explains why walking is an essential strategy for reviving urban areas. |
| THE ART OF PERMACULTURE GARDENING |
| How to design a healthy, robust and productive garden with Patrick Whitefield. |
| ECO CENTRICITY |
| Max Lindegger describes how a model ecocentre was built at Crystal Waters Village. |
| GETTING INTO HOT WATER |
| Want to build your own efficient solar hot water panels? Dave Darby tells how. |
| TRANSPORTS OF DELIGHT |
| David Henshaw explores an exiting range of alternatives to the car. |
| NOT A RIB TO SPARE IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN |
| Sculptor and low impact builder, Jack Everett, describes a very special shelter he built at the Eden Project, Cornwall. |
| VEGETABLES IN CLOVER |
| Patrick Whitefield reports on an innovative research project that could revolutionise organic gardening. |
| A SHARE OF THE EARTH |
| Hellen Trussell describes her life on a Scottish organic farm which runs a successful Community Supported Agriculture scheme. |
| GROWING GRAPES OUTDOORS |
| Fruit artisan, Clive Simms, gives advice on how to grow and prune healthy, hardy grapes for the table. |
| STEALING THE SHOW |
| How a strawbale house in Ireland was built in no time at all, with little money, and stole the show at a homes and gardens festival. Rob Hopkins reports. |
| GARDENING A COMMUNITY |
| Dr Paul Benham describes the transformation of bare fields into a thriving market garden and educational centre in Wales. |
| LIVING AMONGST THE TREES |
| Dan Mills reports on a low impact, sustainable living and educational project in a Devon Community woodland. |
| A HOME IN THE WOODS |
| Can 30 acres of woodland support two people and offer a happy, sustainable lifestyle? Wade Muggleton investigates. |