
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. |