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How To Make Your Own Simple, Cheap And Toxin-Free Body Hygiene Products
How To Make Your Own Simple, Cheap And Toxin-Free Body Hygiene Products Biodegradable Body Hygiene Products Body hygiene products often contain a large number of dubious substances such as artificial perfumes, microplastic, silica, aluminium and a host of other chemicals that are harmful to the environment and to your body. With our very simple and […]
Protein for the Plant-Based Permaculturalist
Protein for the Plant-Based Permaculturalist A Parade of Pulses Whether plant-based eating (veganism) is the guiding force behind your diet, or you simply enjoy having plant-based dishes just because plants taste good, there is something to be gained from experimenting with plant foods. In particular, pulses are great for providing some substance and protein to […]
Forest Garden Plants – Ground Cover Plants for Deep Shade
Forest Garden Plants – Ground Cover Plants for Deep Shade Ground cover plants play an important role in the forest garden, protecting the soil, providing refuge for wildlife at ground layer, preventing unwanted plants from establishing and can provide some food such as berries or leaves. Ground covers are easy to establish and can be […]
How to Build a Rain Garden to Capture Runoff
How to Build a Rain Garden to Capture Runoff There are many reasons to build a rain garden. Rain gardens help filter out pollutants like bird guano from stormwater and turn them into nutrients for your garden. They help reduce the draw on local aquifers to irrigate our gardens and allow those aquifers to be […]
Polyculture Trial – Apple Polyculture vs Monoculture
Polyculture Trial – Apple Polyculture vs Monoculture How Do they Compare in Terms of Costs, Soil Health, Biodiversity, Production and Time? I’m so looking forward to the spring to meet our Polyculture Study crew and get back into the gardens. This season we’ll be shifting our focus to perennial polyculture experiments and forest garden yields. […]
Integrated Pest Management – Part 2
Integrated Pest Management – Part 2 Suggestions for specific IPM techniques to help you obtain a yield In part 1(1) of this article, we looked at the history of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and the spectrum of IPM techniques. In this part we will explore some specific ways to apply IPM with your own ecosystem, whatever […]
Enrich Garden Soils without Paying for Amendments
Enrich Garden Soils without Paying for Amendments A big part of permaculture is building soil. The loss of quality soils is one of the largest, most prevalent concerns on the globe, and of course, without good soil, producing healthy food just isn’t in the cards. So, really, before we can fill those storage bins with […]
Integrated Pest Management – Part 1
Integrated Pest Management – Part 1 What is it and how can we do it as part of a balanced system? In these times of global uncertainty and transition, where the globalised food system has become halted or reduced1, there is a wonderful opportunity to begin practicing food sovereignty on a personal basis2. This seems […]
If you took to growing veggies in the coronavirus pandemic, then keep it up when lockdown ends
If you took to growing veggies in the coronavirus pandemic, then keep it up when lockdown ends If you took to growing veggies in the coronavirus pandemic, then keep it up when lockdown ends The COVID-19 pandemic produced a run on the things people need to produce their own food at home, including vegetable seedlings, seeds and chooks. […]
Off-Grid solar 101
Off-Grid solar 101 Going Off-Grid for electricity can be one of the biggest challenges you can face and also one of the most expensive. After doing a Geoff Lawton Permaculture design course in 2013 I learnt the secret to taking my family’s home off-grid in the city which I had been wanting to do for […]
Collecting Clean Water from Polluted Sources with Natural Filtration Systems
Collecting Clean Water from Polluted Sources with Natural Filtration Systems Being involved with permaculture helps one develop a mild obsession (and that’s putting it mildly) with water. Long before I was a certified designer, just an avid reader of permaculture texts and articles, and a compulsive watcher of Geoff Lawton YouTube videos, I was looking […]
Permaculture Alternatives to Waste-to-Energy (W2E)
Permaculture Alternatives to Waste-to-Energy (W2E) Waste-to-energy (W2E), particularly incineration, is being promoted as a good alternative to landfills – it gets rid of all that plastic we use and generate energy, right? In this article I’d like to first outline what’s wrong with W2E and then talk about permaculture alternatives. So What Is Wrong With […]
Permaculture and Money – Part 3
Permaculture and Money – Part 3 The Practice of Being Open In part 1(1) of this series, we explored the relationship between money, psychology and violence, while in part 2(2) we looked at some ways in which the stories we tell as a culture to do with money could be seen as encouraging destructive patterns of behaviour. Looby […]
Ways To Treat Wildlife Humanely When Creating A Homestead
Ways To Treat Wildlife Humanely When Creating A Homestead Beginning a homestead and trying to live as sustainably and being self-sufficient was once a lifestyle for a huge proportion of the population, but today this low-impact way of living is seeing something of a resurgence. One factor that can sometimes be overlooked when starting a […]
Permaculture and Money – Part 2
Permaculture and Money – Part 2 Living and Giving Abundance In part 1 of this article series we looked at the curious concept of money and how it can be seen to be contributing to the institutional violence of much of modern society. This part will look at some alternative ways of viewing and interacting with money, […]
