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 |