Winter 2017 (PM 94)
| Miraculous Abundance |
| Stuart Anderson visits a small permaculture market garden so successful that it inspired the film, Tomorrow. |
| Caring For Our Outer Edge |
| Laura Pardoe explores how we can permaculture our skincare. |
| Visionaries |
| What inspires London-based permaculture activist, Kayode Olafimihan and documentary filmmaker and Earth restoration pioneer, John D. Liu? |
| Calf At Foot Dairying |
| Fiona Provan explains her unique compassionate methods for producing raw milk at the farm gate from a Pasture For Life herd. |
| Can Britain Become Zero Carbon? |
| Paul Allen from the Centre for Alternative Technology explains how Britain can transition to a zero carbon country. |
| Universal Basic Income READ NOW |
| Keith Pierce explains the similarities between permaculture and Universal Basic Income, discusses its advantages and why we should support it. |
| Multi-Functional Food Forests – A Key to Our Future |
| Maddy Harland visits two beautiful biodiverse permaculture projects. |
| 5 Special Permaculture Places |
| We asked our international contacts to share their favourite sites. |
| The Solar Powered Farm |
| In his second article, Simon Hursthouse discovers how the off-grid electricity systems work at Living Energy Farm and how they take it nearer its goal of becoming a zero fossil fuel farm. |
| Make Your Own Vegan Cheese |
| Karen McAthy explores the art of plant-based cheesemaking. |
| How Nature Improves Our Mental Health |
| Josephine Hall visits Windsor Hill Wood and discovers how they are using the healing powers of nature and community. |
| An Edible Perennial Polyculture |
| Carole Kirk explains how she designed and planted her small West Yorkshire garden, inspired by Anni Kelsey’s work. |
| Next Generation Permaculture |
| Rozie Apps explains how Sector 39 are applying permaculture principles and practices in schools and to the wider community in Wales and Uganda. |
Autumn 2017 (PM 93)
| The Healing Garden |
| During a period of personal transition, Maddy Harland found solace and friendship designing and making a small ornamental cottage garden with a large pond. |
| What Keeps Visionaries Going? READ NOW |
| What makes a person a lifelong activist, someone who is able to sail against the wind for decades? Maddy Harland asked two very different visionaries. |
| The Art of Dying Creatively |
| Katie Shepherd thinks how we die is vitally important and should not be pushed under the carpet but well designed, permaculturally of course. |
| Regenerating Urban Communities |
| The May Project in Morden, London, uses lessons in permaculture, gardening, natural building and hip hop to empower and engage local people. Rozie Apps reports. |
| Building Resilience to Climate Change |
| Mali is in the heart of West Africa and is vulnerable to drought, floods and climate change. Caroline Hart and Anna Baness describe how tree planting and other regenerative strategies have helped local people to survive. |
| Designing a Permaculture Plot |
| Gardener, Vera Greutink, describes how she designed and implemented a permaculture plot larger than her small back yard and how she made her plant choices. |
| The Fossil Fuel Free Farm |
| Living Energy Farm has been working towards being 100% renewable since 2010. Simon Hursthouse asked founder Alexis Zeiger about their affordable and replicable living technologies. |
| Synergy in Ibiza |
| Chris Drews describes how he created an educational centre that is regenerating a dryland landscape and runs community events all over Ibiza. |
| How To Fund a Successful Build |
| Geoff and Fuggo King explain how they financed their upcycled workshop from their wider community. |
| Hardy Productive Trees |
| Now is the best time to research and plan your winter tree plantings. Martin Crawford shares four hardy productive trees for any permaculture garden, smallholding or orchard. |
| The Drawdown Project |
| A Comprehensive Plan to Reverse Climate Change |
| Making Your Dreams Come True With Dragon Dreaming |
| John Croft explains how we can transform our individual dreams, plans and celebrations into reality by working together. |
Summer 2017 (PM 92)
| In Search of Local Beer |
| Rob Hopkins, co-founder of the Transition movement, combines his passion for localisation and beer, exploring just how local a beer can be. |
| Saving Your Own Seeds |
| No Dig experts, Charles Dowding and Stephanie Hafferty, explain the ins and outs on saving your own vegetable seed. |
| Artisanal Cheesemaking |
| We asked David Asher to tell us how to make the most natural, permacultural cheese possible. |
| Growing Edible Polycultures in Containers |
| Vera Greutink explains how to grow vegetables in organic polycultures in containers by the kitchen door. |
| Make Your Own Biofertiliser |
| Why are soil minerals so important and how can we use biofertilisers to remineralise our land? Matt Dunwell and Juanfran Lopez explore the fascinating world beneath our feet. |
| Self-sufficient Nutrition for Life READ NOW |
| Chrissie Sugden, a nutritionist, explores how much land we would need to provide all our essential nutrients. |
| Bill Mollison |
| “We are time scouts. Finding places now for what will be needed then.” |
| What Keeps Visionaries Going? |
| Maddy Harland asks two very different visionaries how they maintain momentum over decades, even in dark times. |
| Permaculture Your Money: Designing Financial Ecosystems |
| How can banking be a force for good? We asked Huw Davies from Triodos Bank to tell us about their approach. |
| Making Flower Essence Jellies |
| In the last issue of PM, Susan Tipton-Fox showed us how to tap and make maple and birch tree syrups. Here she’s back sharing the secrets of her deliciously floral essence jellies. |
| Out of the Everyday Mind |
| Eleanor O’Hanlon writes of close encounters in the Okavango Delta in Botswana, one of Africa’s few remaining wildlife sanctuaries for lions and elephants. |
| Empowering Women with Permaculture |
| Looby Macnamara and Maddy Harland use permaculture design to help women become more empowered. Looby describes some activities to help create your own empowerment design. |
| How Growers are Adapting to Climate Change |
| Dr Dorian Speakman set up The Marginal Lands Project to show how permaculture growers and farmers in Britain’s harsh upland areas have adapted to drought, flood and unseasonal weather events. |
| Foraging for Health |
| Want to educate your kids, get them eating healthily and exercising away from the screen? Katy Bowman suggests that foraging is more than fun, it stacks all those functions and more. |
| Building a Children’s Permaculture Movement |
| How can we launch a global permaculture education programme for children? Lusi Alderslowe has the answer! |