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. |