Celebrate and deep dive into the permaculture world with Permaculture Week.
All over the world, people, communities and projects will be holding events to celebrate. You can find your local event via the Permaculture Week website: www.permacultureday.org/permaculture-week
In celebration, we (Permaculture magazine) have an exciting week of collaborations with a selection of permaculture practitioners from around the world. Each day one of these ‘permies’ will be featured on our social media, as well as connected articles on our website. Head over to our Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and BlueSky to see what is on offer. We’ll be featuring regenerative farming, permaculture design and food forests, urban community farming and much more.
For the duration we will also be giving 30% discount to use on our permaculture books (discount will be automatically be applied at the checkout) and subscribers to Permaculture magazine will receive and additional 20% (discount code will be emailed to you).
If you’d like to know more about permaculture, why not try our ‘What is Permaculture?’ page: www.permaculture.co.uk/what-is-permaculture
– Rupert Read and Manda Scott chat to Permaculture magazine’s Editor, Maddy Harland
– Manda Scott explores thrutopia
Emeritus Prof. Rupert Read is the editor of Transformative Adaptation: Another world is still, just, possible, and co-director of the Climate Majority Project. https://rupertread.net
Manda Scott is the host of Accidental Gods podcast, a thrutopian writer and author of the 2024 hit Any Human Power and the bestselling series Boudica. https://accidentalgods.life
– Julie Leoni shares some of her poetry inspired by nature and the farms she’s been volunteering with.
Julie is a poet, educator, well-being life coach, researcher, facilitator, author, podcaster. www.julieleoni.com She launches her new book of poetry, Farmotherlands, in April and you can order it here: www.julieleoni.com/product/farmotherlands
– Warren Draper shares the journey of Bentley Urban Farm, a UK based city farm that teaches people to grow healthy food, whilst also highlighting food poverty. They work with their local community to create accessible spaces for art, music, therapy, nature connection and education. https://bentleyurbanfarm.com
– Malvikaa Solanki from SwaYYam, a non-profit in India that is educating community and local farmers in ecological food growing, shares how they’re transforming exhausted land into abundant farms, while ensuring plenty of habitat for wildlife. https://swayyam.org
– Pippa Chapman, a professional RHS trained horticulturalist, permaculture practitioner and teacher, explores how she designs and experiments with polycultures and perennials to create beautiful, diverse, edible and functional gardens, while also creating space for wildlife.
Pippa is also the author of The Plant Lover’s Backyard Forest Garden.
– Babbinswood Organic Farm, in Shropshire, share how they’re using permaculture and regenerative agriculture to grow healthy food for the local community, and using holisitic planned grazing to create healthy soil. Three generations of the Jones family currently live and work on the family farm. www.babbinswoodfarm.co.uk