Feng Shui – The Ancient Art of Permaculture?
Author and Feng Shui practitioner, Gill Hale, looks at the auspicious similarities between this ancient art and permaculture.
Our House
A visit to the passive solar retrofit of the Harlands' dilapidated 19th century flint cottage in Hampshire.
Cultivating Plenty
Chris Evans describes 'Three Season' vegetable gardening, which includes the principles of Ayurvedic, bio-intensive and minimum tillage systems, and shows how this can be adapted to local situations and resources.
Getting There
Swimming against the tide. Anna Glanville-Hearson describes the joys of car-free living.
Can we Afford to Ignore Genetic Engineering
In this passionately argued article, Siobhan Mitchell explains why the subject of genetic engineering is too important to be ignored.
Heritage Tomatoes
Sue Stickland gives adventurous treatment to the heritage of tomatoes. History and growing tips for all kinds of tomatoes.
Welcome to the Feast of Dean
The forest food directory is a new initiative to celebrate the production of food within the Forest of Dean. Matt Dunwell writes on a practical project which ties together the issues of sustainable land management, health, transport, recycling, employment and the local economy.
How to Grow Mushrooms
Keen amateur mycologist, Richard Scrase describes the life-cycle of fungus and explains how to grow mushrooms on wood and in compost.
Pest Control Without Poisons
Introducing the first in a practical series of articles by the team at the Henry Doubleday Research Association who share with us their knowledge and experience in growing food organically. Richard Smedley writes.
Plants to Pig out on: Part 1, Fruits
Ken Fern gives pemaculture magazine readers an insight into his favourite edible plants. In this, the first of two articles, Ken tempts us with some of his favourite less usual fruits.
In the Raw: A High Energy Diet
Steve Charter provides some nourishing thoughts on permaculture diet and lifestyle.
Growing Nuts in Britain: Part 1
Ray Brown, of Nutwood Nurseries, has been experimenting with growing as many kind of nut trees as possible in Cheshire, England. Here in the first of two articles, he describes commonly grown nut trees.
A Sewage Reed Bed in our Garden
Trevor Davis reveals how he found a reed bed solution to a rural drainage problem in his new garden.
Life in Clover, or Trial by Green Manure
Andy Waterman describes his no-dig, green manure, low input system tested on his own allotment.
Allotment Forestry: A Community Initiative
Geoffrey Sinclair & Adria Pittock tell the story of a set of allotments with a difference - providing a focus for local people, growing useful resources, and creating a place to learn new skills.
Community Compost Network
The Department of the Environment charges a minimum of £400 per year for a Waste Management Licence. This has discouraged many small-scale community composting schemes. The Community Composting Network aims to change all that, writes Rebekah Hoyland.
Light on the Horizon
Madeleine Harmond reports on the Tweed Horizons Centre For Sustainable Technology, pioneers of economic and cultural regeneration.
Spuds in Tyres
Michael Guerra offers some useful tips on growing potatoes in old car tyres.
Riverside Community Garden
A group of Cardiff residents called REACT (Riverside Environment Action) have transformed a barren lifeless space into a vibrant lush urban oasis, writes Michele Fitzsimmons.
Permaculture Goes to School
Stephen Froom, permaculture designer tells the story of how permaculture went to school with sponsorship from the Devon Wildlife Trust.
Close to the Land & Holding Your Ground
David Crouch describes the changing culture of allotments, the reasons for their decline and their vital place in permaculture.
Forest Gardening: A Healing Vision
Robert A. de J. Hart presents part of the comprehensive answer which permaculture puts forward to the problems of industrial blight.
Forest Farming in Spain
Ruth Bond relates her experiences after three years of helping Rory Corcoran on his forest farm in the mountains of Malaga in Southern Spain.
Ryton's Forest Garden
Jane Powell writes about a collaboration between the Henry Doubleday Research Association (HDRA) and the Permaculture Association at 10 acres of demonstration gardens near Coventry.