Spring 2020 (PM 103)

Pies, Ale & Camping |
With traditional English pubs closing every week, one enterprising couple, Marie Smith and Mark Sealey, describe how they combined real ale with eco-camping to create a thriving community hub. |
The Ecological Gardener |
Garden designer, Sid Hill, describes how combining a wildflower meadow with an edible forest garden is a game changer, establishing habitat, biodiversity, beauty and resilience for more extreme climate events. |
When Fashion Becomes Activism |
Linda Thomas designs stunning clothes from waste materials. She also uses fashion activism to highlight the need for us to stop littering our beautiful planet with plastic. |
The Greenest School in the World? |
A new eco-built school in Nepal is utilising climate-sensitive technology fit for a changing world – and raising a new generation of Nature protectors. Georgina-Kate Adams shares Part 1 of the story. |
Tomorrow’s Leaders |
2019 Permaculture Magazine Prize runners up, Marcela Casaus and Lupita Salazar, describe how their land-based Northern Youth Project is creating the community’s leaders of the future. |
Fair Shares on the Farm |
Rebecca Hosking explains how she and the late Tim Green applied the third permaculture ethic of Fair Shares on Village Farm. |
Coppicing Trees for Medicine |
Anne Stobart shares some experience of growing and harvesting medicinals at Holt Wood, a forest garden in Devon. |
Grow Your Own Kombucha |
Kombucha is now super trendy and becoming very expensive. Known for its healing properties, Susan Tipton-Fox explains how to make your own. |
Nurturing Your Soils with Compost Teas |
Eric Fisher shares a simple compost tea recipe to increase the health of your soil. |
Regenerative Permaculture – An Alternative to Business as Usual |
Simon Constantine tells the story of one of his favourite permaculture projects: the restoration of rainforest in an area once populated by orangutans, rhinos, elephants and tigers. |
How to Create a Culture of Collective Intelligence |
Looby Macnamara says that culture naturally evolves, and that we can speed up and positively steer this process in our personal and collective lives. |
The Woodcraft Folk – education for social change |
Joseph Sallis delves into a movement that teaches young people the importance of cooperation, peace and friendship, while offering a safe space to share. |
How to Find Land for Your Tiny House |
A Tiny House can seem like a great way to overcome high rentals or a crippling mortgage. Pamela Palongue investigates how to find a site. |
WWOOFing and Permaculture – Let’s Build a Guild |
Scarlett Penn describes how World Wide Opportunities on Working Organic Farms (WWOOF) transforms lives. |
Carbon Neutral Composting |
Eleanor Strangways reveals the latest technology combatting excessive food waste. |
DIGITAL ARTICLE: Deep Adaptation on the Farm |
Julie Kunen volunteers on a Kenyan farm that is adapting to climate change by changing its way of growing crops. Salutary lessons for us all. |