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. |
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. |