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. |