Autumn 2009 (PM 61)
| My kitchen garden |
| Emma Cooper describes the summertime flourishings of her prolific urban patch |
| Reconnecting land and people |
| Why is planning so hard to get for genuine low impact development? Mike Hannis visits projects and explores what needs to change |
| Sustainable beekeeping |
| With global honeybee populations plummeting, David Heaf offers a possible solution in the form of the Warré hive |
| Cycling for sustainability |
| Juliet Kemp’s useful tips for ditching the car and converting to pedal power for our daily transport |
| A stitch in time |
| How climate change and peak oil has inspired John-Paul Flintoff to shun the fashion industry and make and mend his own clothes |
| Permaculture principles |
| Maddy Harland takes a fresh look at the principles that underpin permaculture design |
| Creating harmony |
| Michiyo Furuhashi introduces a Japanese ecovillage that is almost entirely self-sufficient and is teaching sustainable agriculture to its neighbours |
| The art of reading the landscape |
| Understanding landscape is not only fun, it is a vital way of understanding sustainability and reconnecting with the Earth. Patrick Whitefield explains why |
| A new woodsman's tale |
| How PM made Ian Varley’s mid-life crisis definitely worth having, enabling him to live his dream and make a living working with wood |
| Champion the lumber horse |
| Mike Abbott describes how to make a modern, efficient shaving horse from mainly scrap materials in just a couple of hours |
| Les porcs in permaculture |
| How to be happy keeping pigs in permaculture. Stuart & Gabrielle Anderson share their experience of raising pigs on their smallholding in France |
| Catch 'n' store water |
| With climate change threatening drought as well as flood, Daniel Halsey explains how to design resilience into your orchard or farm |