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Living the Good Life: Core Values, System Design and Functional Resilience
Living the Good Life: Core Values, System Design and Functional Resilience Credit: Good Life Permaculture Hannah Moloney, co-founder and co-director of Good Life Permaculture, was in the pursuit of a duck on the run when I arrived at her property on a fine summer evening. The duck had wandered into the chicken enclosure, and Hannah’s […]
Clean Food: If You Want to Save the World, Get Over Yourself.
Clean Food: If You Want to Save the World, Get Over Yourself. From Salt Bae, via Facebook I’m a permaculture farmer. My goal is to develop natural ecosystems that produce food. My dream is a world with ready access to a diet that nourishes the body of the consumer, provides a living for the producer, and […]
Council Estate Permaculture: creating a resilient productive garden on a compacted lawn
Council Estate Permaculture: creating a resilient productive garden on a compacted lawn We live on a Council estate in Bolton, and decided around five years ago to do something with the front garden. All of the front gardens in the street are all lawns with compacted soil, each front lawn measures roughly 14x14ft. Incoming sunlight […]
Money & Permaculture
MONEY & PERMACULTURE Money, though valuable in its own way, probably should not be the motivating factor for adopting a permaculture lifestyle, that is unless the idea is to escape the perils associated with it. Nonetheless, how and where money will come from seems to be one of the more frequently asked questions when I […]
Challenges of Choice
CHALLENGES OF CHOICE Even before permaculture vernacular had become commonplace to us, my wife Emma and I were active in our pursuit of living more in keeping with how we wanted to treat the planet, its animals, and our fellow humans. We were already ardent boycotters, believers in fair wages, in animal rights, in corporate […]
Assessing a Property Before Designing It
ASSESSING A PROPERTY BEFORE DESIGNING IT For the purpose of this article and the scope of which I’m looking to explore, we are going to begin by assuming a hypothetical property is already bought and paid for. In short, we won’t be going into all of the legal assessment ideas that might be involved when […]
Volatility on Steroids
Volatility on Steroids Salvador Dalí White calm 1936It’s been a while since we last heard from longtime friend of the Automatic Earth Dr. Nelson Lebo III, New Englander living in Wanganui, New Zealand. Nelson has written a fine collection of articles on this site through the years. Of course I thought, when I first saw […]
Hornshurst Forest Garden – growing food in a forest clearing
Hornshurst Forest Garden – growing food in a forest clearing As many of you know, permaculture will often have you disappear down a rabbit hole, if not an entire warren. Or, in permaculture-speak, will take you off the well-beaten track to explore those infamous edges. The Hornshurst Forest Garden is one such edge. It is […]
How Permaculture is the Perfect Match for Homesteading
HOW PERMACULTURE IS THE PERFECT MATCH FOR HOMESTEADING WHAT IS PERMACULTURE? “Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted & thoughtful observation rather than protracted & thoughtless labor; of looking at plants & animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single-product system.” BILL MOLLISON The […]
Permaculture: A Holistic Approach to Life
PERMACULTURE: A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO LIFE When we tell people we practise permaculture, we usually get some questions. The interesting thing is the type of questions we are asked. Usually, the person asking us has a plant or tree that has some sort of disease and we are asked what they can do about it. […]
What Permaculture Can Teach Us About Commons
What Permaculture Can Teach Us About Commons As a developed set of social practices, techniques and ethical norms, permaculture has a lot to say to the world of the commons. This is immediately clear from reading the twelve design principles of permaculture that David Holmgren enumerated in his 2002 book Permaculture: Principles and Practices Beyond Sustainability. It […]
Basil: What Every Permaculturalist Should Know
BASIL: WHAT EVERY PERMACULTURALIST SHOULD KNOW In a design system in which we are looking for each element to perform multiple functions, there are few plants that can show off quite the way basil does. As a rule of thumb, things are expected to warrant their placement within our designs with at least two useful […]
Survival in Different Terms: A Healthy Ecosystem is Not Based on Survival of the Fittest
SURVIVAL IN DIFFERENT TERMS: A HEALTHY ECOSYSTEM IS NOT BASED ON SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST As I’m working my way through and around Geoff Lawton’s online PDC course, I’m pulling out all sorts of nuggets, things that spur my thoughts or twist a smile onto my face. It’s great to hear about familiar ideas in a […]
Learning More on How to Think About Soil
LEARNING MORE ON HOW TO THINK ABOUT SOIL I don’t know why it is, but I’ve taken to waking up at about five every morning. I kiss my wife Emma on the head, creep downstairs from the loft of our apartment and spend the next hour or more watching Geoff Lawton videos from the PDC course. She […]
