Winter 2012 (PM 74)
| The Moneyless Manifesto READ NOW |
| Mark Boyle describes how we can free ourselves from that ravenous beast – The Economy. |
| Scavenger Technology |
| Cathy Ashley takes us on a tour of her permaculture home – an ‘evolving’ council house on a quest to become a farm! |
| Wwoofing Around The World |
| Rebecca Huntley tries her hand at range of jobs on organic farms and gardens, while travelling on a budget. |
| Rocket Mass Heaters |
| John Adams looks at the potential of these stoves for heating your home, workshop or communal space. |
| Demystifying Permaculture Design |
| Aranya explains how to make the many pieces of the permaculture jigsaw fit! |
| No Dig Experiments |
| Charles Dowding compares the yields and health of dug and undug soil on his market garden. |
| Funding Your Pemaculture Project |
| Georgina-Kate Adams explains how to find empowerment in an alternative finance model, crowdfunding. |
| Growing Food In Small Urban Spaces |
| Juliet Kemp offers some tips for keeping you growing in the cold winter months. |
| How To Make Your Own Soap |
| Stuart and Gabrielle Anderson share their recipe for success for producing your own sweet-smelling bubbly bars. |
| Ecological Land Co-op |
| Shaun Chamberlin describes a co-operative that helps people gain access to affordable low impact smallholdings. |
| Building A Mass Stove Heater |
| Nicolette Keizer and Baya Salmon Hawk describe how they build an efficient ‘mass’ stove that also heats their water. |
| The Wonder of Wetlands |
| Lucy Elkin discovers a wetland habitat teaming with biodiversity which provides flood protection as well. |
| Making Space For Zone 00 |
| Amelia Lake takes a journey from the outer zones of practical permaculture to the controversial inner zone. |
| Cashing In On Creation |
| Dr Joanna Boehnert explains why Rio+20’s Green Economy program is more of a problem than an ecological solution. |
autumn 2012 (PM 73)
| Incan Agriculture Revisited |
| Matthew Seal and Julie Bruton-Seal take an excursion into the ancient Andean agriculture of the Incas. |
| Permanent Horticulture |
| Deano Martin experiments with John Jeavons’ biointensive growing methods and other aspects of permanent horticulture. |
| Making a Solar Food Dryer |
| John Adams describes how he made a solar food dehydrator and how it performed in a less than typical British summer. |
| Nurture and Nature |
| Lusi Alderslowe wanted her son to learn from nature so she set up her own Earth Education group. She explains how and why! |
| Treating Waste Water Naturally |
| Maddy Harland looks at the positive benefits of an ecological waste treatment system installed at the Sustainability Centre in Hampshire. |
| River of Flowers |
| Sophie Housley describes how a social enterprise is creating urban wild flower corridors to help rescue our declining bee population. |
| How to Survey a Site |
| Whether it is a plot of land, a business, or social enterprise, Aranya describes the critical process of surveying to produce an effective design. |
| Biomatrix Water |
| Lisa Shaw and Galen Fulford describe how they transform polluted waterways into lush water-front parkways using biomimicry. |
| How to Make a Pallet Shed |
| Urban dweller Liz Darley describes how she and her partner made a garden greenhouse/shed from waste materials. |
| Cultivating Communication Skills |
| Looby Macnamara offers some simple yet effective principles to help us become better communicators and listeners. |
| Multi-Functional Hedges |
| Tim Green applies permaculture thinking to hedgelaying and comes up with a stock proof, multi-functional design. |
| Permaculture in Panama |
| Joanna and Franck Marion visit Panama’s permaculture pioneer, John Douglas, and learn the art of ‘lazy’ farming. |
| Peak Oil Transport READ NOW |
| John Owen describes his six years living and travelling on the road and explains why this lifestyle is so very permacultural. |
summer 2012 (PM 72)
| SUCCESSFULLY DEALING WITH DROUGHT |
| Peppi Gauci describes a permaculture project in Malta that has transformed a windswept arid landscape into an abundant oasis. |
| FEED THE WORLD |
| Patrick Whitefield looks at whether permaculture can feed the world whilst reducing our use of fossil fuel derived pesticides and fertilisers. |
| WHY PERMACULTURE NEEDS DESIGN READ NOW |
| Aranya explains why design is central to permaculture and how it enables us to consciously create more harmonious, low impact lives. |
| APPLIED OBSERVATION |
| Wade Muggleton explains why a cup of tea and a wander is a valuable daily habit for a productive garden. |
| DESIGNING YOUR LIFE WITH PERMACULTURE |
| Looby Macnamara describes how to become the person you have always wanted to be! |
| HOW TO PROPAGATE A FOREST GARDEN |
| Pippa Greenwood, explains how to grow your own forest garden from scratch. |
| BUILDING COMMUNITY |
| Zoë Foster on joining a cohousing community and helping set up an energy saving project. |
| LEARNING BY DOING |
| Nicole Vosper reports on a permaculture design programme that invites diversity and action. |
| 10 REASONS TO DO A PERMACULTURE COURSE |
| We want to encourage all of our readers to take a Permaculture Design Course: here’s why. |
| FROM FLEECE TO FELT |
| Rosie Hazleton explains how to dye and felt fleece while working outdoors. |
| PRODUCTIVE PERMACULTURE ON A SMALL SCALE |
| Anni Kelsey explains why she grows plants all mixed together in her garden |
| ROCKET STOVES IN THE PHILIPPINES |
| Penelope Reyes describes how rocket stoves are saving fuel and reducing lung disease. |
| DRYLAND PERMACULTURE IN PALESTINE |
| Last autumn Annie Neligan visited the Marda Permaculture Project in Palestine. |
| THE PERMACULTURE PIGGERY |
| Kate Fox explains how to set up a small piggery. |
| FIRE AND WILD FOOD COOKERY |
| Wendy Vickerman describes a school where children have a land based way of learning, much of it practical and hands on. |