Autumn 2018 (PM 97)
| The No Dig Palace Garden |
| Vicky Cooke describes a no dig garden on a palatial scale – the regeneration of Hampton Court Palace’s 17th century walled fruit and vegetable gardens. |
| Strawbale Building for Beginners |
| Felicity Lee and Dan Coleman took on a self-build in France with no prior experience. Would they succeed? |
| The Alchemy of Making Balms |
| Karen Lawton shares how to make an ‘Ache Ease’ balm from locally grown plants. |
| The Floating Food Forest |
| Rozie Apps explains how New York’s edible forest garden on a barge is combating food deserts and changing local law. |
| Common Lands |
| Cooperation is proving a resilient and powerful remedy to market failure and austerity across the UK. As a result, the concept of the commons is gaining traction once again. |
| Sustainable Livelihoods with Permaculture Values |
| How Kinsale College of Further Education in Ireland is homing in on business. |
| One Planet Development |
| Phil Moore and Lauren Simpson explain how Welsh planning policy is pioneering permaculture ethics and principles to give the next generation access to land and livelihoods. |
| The Virtual Permaculture Office |
| In the very challenging world of small enterprise, Permanent Publications co-founder, Maddy Harland, describes how new technology and flexible working can help us creatively adapt to change. |
| Cultivating the Edge |
| Can marginal spaces encourage biodiversity, food justice and a sense of place, and how does this relate to permaculture? Ollie Cem tells the story of a guerrilla garden in Totnes. |
| Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services |
| Richard Webb gives a counter argument to George Monbiot’s review of natural capital. |
| Permaculture Woodlands |
| Vikki Mill learnt woodland management from Ben Law. She describes her journey to her own Welsh woodland. |
| DIY Biofertilisers for the Farm READ NOW |
| Chris Evans discovers how James Aitchinson weaned his organic cider apple farm off oil based fertilisers. |
| Women Who Share the Harvest |
| Trina Moyles celebrates the stories of women farmers who practice permaculture around the world. |
Summer 2018 (PM 96)
| The Heritage Bread Revolution |
| Baker, Michael Hanson, describes exciting new developments in preserving ancient wheat varieties for the health of the land and our guts. |
| A Manifesto for Our Daily Bread |
| John Letts sets out the UK Heritage Grain Alliance’s mission to revive a local grain economy for artisanal bread, beers and distillations and our good health. |
| No Dig Gardening on any scale |
| Stephanie Hafferty explains the many advantages of growing annual and perennial veg and fruit with no dig on a small and larger scale. |
| Protecting Our Seas |
| Plastic pollution, climate change and over-fishing are negatively impacting our seas. Rozie Apps explores the issues and shares some of the solutions to kickstart positive change. |
| Building & Living in a Tiny Home READ NOW |
| Kate Fox shares the process of creating a small portable home and how it led her to the lifestyle she’d always dreamed of. |
| Cargo Bikes Urban Transport Solutions |
| Richard Scrase compares cargo bikes for moving everything from timber, a photographic studio, to a cello! |
| What Hope Can Achieve |
| Swansea Community Farm was on the brink of closure, but the local community just couldn’t let it happen. Ruth Domoney tells their story and offers lessons for other struggling projects. |
| Island Permaculture |
| Island life may seem idyllic but it has its challenges … Roz Rolls describes how a Sark permaculture garden is the first step in designing a more resilient lifestyle. |
| Lentil and Spinach Burger |
| The Power of Sound |
| Mike Edwards explains how he uses music to help people contact the wild recesses of their minds and engage with the more-than-human world. |
| The Nutritional Birthing Center |
| Tracy Chait explores how birthing center, Shanti Uganda, educates women in medicinal and nutritional food growing. |
| Biodynamic Farming and Permaculture |
| Marina O’Connell explores how these two systems are both challenging and complimentary to each other. |
| The Permaculture Fruit Tree Nursery |
| How Tom Adams helped bring back a range of heritage fruit trees on his organic and permaculture designed orchard and nursery. |
| Restorative Justice |
| Belinda Hopkins introduces Restorative Justice and Restorative Practice and describes what both can offer us in our communities. |
| Rites of Passage in a More Permanent Culture |
| Alan Creedon explores the positive effects of vision quests for both adults and young people. |
Spring 2018 (PM 95)
| Future Care – Redefining the
Third Permaculture Ethic READ NOW |
| Maddy Harland proposes that permaculture’s third ethic could become Future Care, designing for future generations. |
| Working with Nature –
the Beaver Way |
| Rozie Apps discusses how beavers can create more resilient flood and drought proof landscapes. |
| What is Eco-building? |
| Janna Laan explores what makes buildings ‘eco’, some of the best techniques and why they’re used. |
| How to Make and Use
an A-Frame |
| Caroline Aitken explains how to construct an A-frame and how to use it on your land. |
| Microcomposting on a Balcony |
| Michael Eschner created his version of Indian ‘kambha’ to compost his organic waste and feed his container garden. |
| Transforming Waterways |
| Suzanne Birch explains how technology and nature can work together to restore waterways around the world. |
| Turning Dreams into Realities |
| Looby Macnamara describes the processes that can help us design the lives we want to lead. |
| Vegan Arancini |
| Piers Warren and Ella Bee Glendining share this hearty recipe using ingredients from the garden. |
| An Agrarian Renaissance |
| Walter Lewis shares highlights from a year spent documenting small-scale, regenerative farms in England and Wales. |
| Organic, Permaculture and Biodynamic Cultivation |
| Andrew De La Haye and Yolande Watson combine three growing systems on their smallholding in Herefordshire. |
| Wind-powered Bicycles –
Toys or Transport? |
| Richard Scrase tests out a Whike wind-powered trike. |
| Reframing Financial Services for People and Planet |
| Peter Ellington puts ethics first in his accountancy and educational work. |
| Growing a Community Organisation |
| Sharon Stevens applies nature’s patterns to design and grow a community organisation. |
| From the Anthropocene to the Transformocene Age |
| Mick Collins explores how humanity can transition from a culture of climate chaos and violence to one of peace and earth restoration. |