How to make self-watering grow beds & smart greenhouses / Inside Permaculture Island – Part 4 Permaculture Magazine 2026-09-21 | How to make self-watering grow beds & smart greenhouses / Inside Permaculture Island – Part 4
How to Garden with the Seasons | Liz Zorab shares her tips for making the most out of your plot Permaculture Magazine 2024-01-22 | Organic gardener and homesteader, @LizZorab chats to Permaculture magazine's editor Maddy Harland, about what it is to be a seasonal gardener and shares some of her tips for winter gardening.Liz's gardening cycle starts in the autumn, rather than the spring, and she uses the shorter days to dream and imagine the following year's garden and any new projects.Liz shares how following the rhythms of Nature has improved her health and made gardening more enjoyable. Early mornings in the garden are bliss, even just to sit and embrace the colours and the sounds of life around, and taking time in winter to be inspired and excited adds another level of enjoyment.Liz is the author of two books, 'The Seasoned Gardener' and 'Grounded', both available from our online shop at: shop.permaculture.co.uk
Liz Zorabs Top Tips for Starting a Veg and Flower Garden Permaculture Magazine 2024-01-02 | Organic gardener, homesteader, YouTuber and author, Liz Zorab, shares her top tips for growing your own veggies and how to get started in your own garden.Liz grows her own fruit, veg, flowers and herbs at her smallholding Byther Farm, and documents her journey at @LizZorabOver the years Liz has created several new gardens, each time she's moved home, and here she shares the best ways to get started, including:*How to prepare the ground*How to feed the soil*How to reduce weeds*What veggies to grow*And how to choose produce and varieties to give year-round food.Liz is the author of two book, 'Grounded: A Gardener's Journey to Abundance and Self-Sufficiency' and 'The Seasoned Gardener', both available via our online shop: shop.permaculture.co.uk
Choosing Plants for the Forest Garden: a Masterclass with Pippa Chapman Permaculture Magazine 2023-08-24 | Pippa Chapman, garden designer and author of 'The Plant Lover's Backyard Forest Garden', talks about her most favourite combinations of plants for perennial food gardens, large or small, that are both beautiful and tasty. She offers ideas for ground covers, shrubs, nitrogen fixers, pollinators, flowering edible bulbs ... Pippa also encourages us to plant for the pure joy of plants, their beauty and scents, and for year-round interest for both humans and to provide food for insects and birds. Forest gardens can provide food and functions but they are also important habitats for nature as well as sanctuaries for human beings. Forest gardens can also be planted with medicinals, crafting, and for gatherings. We can have our edible permacultures and enjoy them too! Plus Pippa also shares how we can involve our children in the garden, especially as they grow older.For 'The Plant Lover's Backyard Forest Garden' see shop.permaculture.co.uk/products/the-plant-lovers-backyard-forest-gardenThe cover of Pippa's beautiful book is also available on our organic clothing and accessories, here: tinyurl.com/PlantLoversFor more on Permaculture magazine: shop.permaculture.co.uk/collections/permaculture-magazine
How to Start a Perennial Food Garden: Hints and tips for getting started Permaculture Magazine 2023-08-10 | Imagine transforming your garden, allotment, even your patio, into a multilayered edible wildlife haven!Garden designer, author and forest gardener, Pippa Chapman, chats to Permaculture magazine's Maddy Harland, exploring how she starts designing and implementing perennial food gardens.Observation is key to all designing, and a base map is also vital in creating the best design for your space. Pippa shares her top tips for getting started, including how to plan your plot and how to site important design elements. Pippa also explains how to gradually transform an established garden into your dream garden, while maintaining the garden's wildlife ecosystem.Pippa is the author of 'The Plant Lover's Backyard Forest Garden'. More info here: shop.permaculture.co.uk/products/the-plant-lovers-backyard-forest-gardenThe cover of Pippa's beautiful book is also available on our organic clothing and accessories, here: tinyurl.com/PlantLoversMore info on permaculture, forest gardening, food forests and permaculture design, here: permaculture.co.uk
Catching a Woodland Bee Swarm / Honeybees for Free Permaculture Magazine 2023-06-11 | Take a leisurely stroll with Tim and Maddy Harland, the visionary founders of Permaculture magazine, through the woodland at their new home in north Devon.Join us as we explore a 19th-century railway bridge that spans a stream that flows straight off Exmoor. Amongst the trees, on top of the bridge, you'll see a small box where wild honeybees have swarmed, enticed by an old comb frame infused with the scent of lemon grass essential oil which mimics a Queen bee's pheromones.Watch as Maddy gently adds frames to the hive, ensuring minimal disturbance to the bees.One of the remarkable qualities of locally adapted bees is their resilience. These gentle bees are well-suited to their environment, flying even in lower temperatures and foraging much the year. They've also earned a reputation for their increased resistance to the varroa mite, a common threat to bee colonies.Stay tuned to our channel for more videos from Maddy and Tim's new woodland home. We'll continue to explore the world of permaculture, no-dig gardening, renewable energy, low-impact living, and community resilience. For further inspiration and valuable insights, visit our website at permaculture.co.uk/.
Earth, Water, and Fire: exploring todays land through our ancestors eyes Permaculture Magazine 2023-04-07 | Announcing a virtual live performance of EARTH, WATER, FIRE!, a synthesis of story, original music and film broadcast on Zoom with a panel session afterwards on 18th April 19:30-9:30 BST.In the times before modern science, things were explained differently. Tales told through generations passed on the knowledge and wisdom of people and place, wrapped in the epic journeys of heroes, heroines and dragons.Devon-based storyteller, Lisa Schneidau, spent the autumn working with Dr Claire Kelly of Plymouth University and a wide range of people from across north Devon. They explored the latest climate and environmental science, met people battling with modern monsters, and explored how science and stories can entwine to illuminate the new generations living in the long-established landscapes around us.What hero stories would our ancestors tell of rural life today? Our landscapes are rapidly changing, the maidens have attitude and armour is pointless… Lisa, with musician Emma Welton and filmmaker Matt Biggs, present a new contemporary storytelling show, directed by Paula Crutchlow, that connects us across the centuries.Supported by Arts Council England, Plymouth University, North Devon & Torridge Councils and Beaford. Ages 13+To book your ticket beaford.org/events/ewf
Food: Happiness, Health, Wellbeing & Equity Permaculture Magazine 2023-03-17 | How can we eat well, make sure the land is well cared for, and ensure farmers get paid enough to grow good , sustainably grown food, and not use our resources importing crops we can grow at home?Maddy Harland speaks with Kath Dalmeny who runs Sustain, a food and farming alliance. Kath explains how Sustain gathers together people with the knowledge and solutions who can prepare, cook, and grow good food, which is the building block of life. From there, we can scale up our influence and change policy that is fundamental to the health of our planet and a high percentage of the solution to the climate crisis. It doesn't get more important than that!"Wake up, Westminster!"See: sustainweb.orgFor more information on Permaculture and Permaculture Magazine see: permaculture.co.uk
From the Age of Economy to the Age of Ecology Permaculture Magazine 2023-02-27 | Satish Kumar discusses the limits to growth and the potential for the transformation of human society to be positive rather than entropic, with the aid of active hope and optimism. He asserts that the great movement of transformation has already become.Aged 85, Satish is an extraordinarily positive role model for lifelong activism. He describes what nourishes him and offers insights into what and who have inspired him, like Bertram Russell and Martin Luther King (who he both met). He also speaks of non-attachment to outcomes, our small daily actions for change and the tipping points that will come to seed a better world.Satish Kumar is an author, an ambassador for Resurgence Trust and Schumacher College, and a lifelong activist for peace.For more about Permaculture Magazine and how to read our complete archive of copies, free of charge to subscribers, see permaculture.co.uk
Permaculture Farming – food, soil & community Permaculture Magazine 2023-02-12 | Matt Swarbrick and his family run Henbant Farm in North Wales. They use permaculture, holistic management and agro-ecological methods to grow veg, fruit, beef, eggs and forge strong links with the community.Matt chats to Maddy Harland about how he became a farmer, the various methods used on the farm, how their one acre market garden is feeding 80 local families and how they've incorporated tourism to enable the planting of hundreds of agroforestry trees, adding biodiversity, food and wildlife habitat.He also explains how, far from lonely, permaculture farming is all about building relationships and sharing skills – it is fun! For more information on Henbant visit: henbant.orgFor information about Permaculture and the magazine see: permaculture.co.uk
Vandana Shiva – Reclaiming the World We Want – A conversation with Maddy Harland Permaculture Magazine 2023-02-05 | Vandana discusses the illusion of scarcity versus the abundance of the Earth and Nature’s systems and explains how we are not alone, we are interdependent with and supported by all species of this Earth. She unpacks the 'Poison Cartel', who are they are and their origins, and suggests how we can effectively stand up for a better world."Her kind gentleness and humility belies a fierce integrity and a razor-sharp mind that cuts through the mirage of our poison-fed culture with startling precision. There was so much to take in and yet it was so simple to understand. It was a profound experience to be with and listen to her... " Tim Harland, co-founder of Permaculture Magazine.About Vandana ShivaHaving gained a PhD in quantum theory in the 1970s in her 20s, Vandana decided that instead of following a career in academia, her life would be much better spent in service to the environment and its people. She started by supporting the Chipko Movement, a nonviolent social and conservation movement by rural villagers, particularly women, in India, aimed at protecting trees and forests designated for government-backed logging. Since then she has campaigned and written tirelessly on issues concerning food sovereignty, ecofeminism and anti-globalisation. Vandana is the author of 20 books.For information about Permaculture Magazine see: permaculture.co.uk
How to Create the Life You Want Permaculture Magazine 2022-08-18 | The Design Web is a holistic design framework that has been used thousands of times globally for all sorts of personal and social designs. It was created by Looby Macnamara, author of Cultural Emergence, People and Permaculture, 7 Ways to Think Differently and Strands of Infinity.Here Looby talks with her collaborator and editor, Maddy Harland. They explore how their lives and the lives of many others across the world have been shaped by these permaculture inspired tools and techniques, allowing them and many others to live the lives they previously only dreamed of. These are lives that are joyful, creative, and are in service to the betterment of people and planet.For more information about Looby's work see: loobymacnamara.comFor information about Permaculture Magazine see: permaculture.co.uk
How to Manifest & Live Your Dream | An Emergent Mystery Class with Looby Macnamara and Maddy Harland Permaculture Magazine 2022-07-01 | In this joyful chat between Looby Macnamara and Maddy Harland, they touch on how to use Looby's design web to turn your dreams into realities and ask you, the listeners, to join their live mystery class, sending in your questions about people care, social permaculture, designing lives with permaculture and cultural emergence.Looby Macnamara is a permaculture teacher and author, with her seminal 'People and Permaculture' celebrating its 10-year anniversary this year. shop.permaculture.co.uk/people-and-permaculture.htmlMaddy Harland is cofounder of Permaculture Magazine and publishing arm, Permanent Publications, where she has edited and written books and articles, and been submerged in permaculture for 30 years. permaculture.co.uk/subscribeThis mystery class will be live on Permaculture Magazine's Facebook on Tuesday 12th July, 7-8pm BST.Leave your questions below and they'll be included in the live event.Join us live at: facebook.com/PermacultureMag
How to Grow, Harvest, Store and Cook Beans | The Diet of the Future Permaculture Magazine 2022-03-26 | Susan Young, author of 'Growing Beans' gives a masterclass in growing protein-packed beans!In the UK, we mostly grow beans for fresh green pods, but there is a whole world of flavoursome and nutritious beans out there, that provide food all winter. Beans can play a role in reducing the risk of obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer – they are good sources of protein, fibre, folate, iron and potassium – and they can reduce your carbon footprint and food miles as well!Susan grows a wide range of beans in her English-Welsh border garden, mostly for eating at the bean stage, rather than the pod, and here she shares her favourite varieties, how best to grow them, best methods for harvesting and storing and her favourite recipes.Susan also explains landraces, the difference between beans and pulses and how she started collecting beans from around the world. She also talks about flatulence and shares her tips for reducing this when eating your own tasty beans.Learn more in Susan's useful guide: shop.permaculture.co.uk/growing-beans.html00:00 Introduction01:54 How and why Susan first became interested in growing and collecting beans10:06 Landraces, beans and pulses11:37 Favourite varieties to grow17:29 Beans for storing24:19 Favourite recipes26:50 Tips for growing beans36:20 Saving bean seed43:30 Flatulence and how to reduce it and eating for healthy
How to Plan, Plant and Grow your own Fruit Trees | tips & tricks for small & large gardens Permaculture Magazine 2022-02-05 | Wade Muggleton, apple addict, shares how you can grow your own fruit trees in small and large spaces.Wade has been growing fruit trees for over 20 years. He has over 30 varieties in his permaculture back garden – Station Road Permaculture – and more recently over 100 varieties in his field orchard.Here Wade chats with Maddy Harland, Permaculture Magazine editor, who has been growing a range of fruit on chalk downland for 30 years.Learn how to grow fruit trees on various scales; how to choose the right rootstock for your space; how to find the best varieties for you; the best orchards to visit; how to prune for maximum yields; and how to keep your orchard healthy with chemical-free methods.Wade and Maddy also explore the importance of adding biodiversity for wildlife and beauty, how to use your harvests and how to encourage others to get involved.Orchards, whatever their size, provide delicious local food for pollinators, birds, bats and of course people. They can be beautiful and enjoyable spaces for communities, families and anyone who wants to connect more with nature while growing food.0:00 Introduction01:56 How fruit trees can be scaleable5:56 Rootstocks and how to select the right ones for your garden13:55 How do you decide what varieties work best in the garden/field?18:48 Best places to see orchard systemsin all their glory20:46 Chemical-free maintenance strategies26:51 The best way to learn pruning31:46 Using yourharvested fruit33:40 Adding biodiversity and beauty39:14 How to encourage other people to get involved42:42 The most surprising thing to happen in an orchardAll of this and more features in Wade's 'The Orchard Book' available with 10% off at: bit.ly/34bEqUq
Growing Beans for Year-round Food Permaculture Magazine 2022-02-01 | Beans are easy to grow, easy to cook, delicious, nourishing and beneficial for us and the planet.Susan Young, author of 'Growing Beans: A diet for healthy people and planet' shares a range of beans she grows to eat fresh from the plant and to dry for year-round tasty meals.From the tiny 'Hungarian rice' bean, which grows on small plants that can grow in pots on the patio, to the gobstopper Polish bean, 'Piekny Jas', which grows on tall climbing vines that Susan incorporates with trailing squash plants.Growing your own beans not only helps you build healthy soil in your garden, it also provides you with a nutrient-rich diet. Beans can play a role in reducing the risk of obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer – they are good sources of protein, fibre, folate, iron and potassium – and they can reduce your carbon footprint and food miles as well!Beans offer year-round nutritious meals, and dried beans can be the star of the show with their fabulous diversity of flavours, colours and textures.Get 10% off 'Growing Beans: A diet for healthy people and planet' at: bit.ly/348NHfA
Tools for Cultivating Hope: permaculture solutions for a challenging world Permaculture Magazine 2022-01-22 | Maddy Harland, editor and cofounder of Permaculture Magazine, shares the tools she uses for staying hopeful, especially after the difficulties of the last two years.Some of Maddy's tools include sowing seeds and gardening; connecting with nature and noticing the change of weather and seasons; and 30 years of editing Permaculture Magazine, which brings positive stories from around the world: projects providing land and education for refugees, people teaching others how to grow their own food, communities coming together to build shared spaces to learn, connect and celebrate, as well as projects exploring and implementing climate change mitigation, carbon sequestration and reforestation.To learn more about the inspiring and hopeful stories, subscribe to Permaculture Magazine. All subscriptions receive free digital access to all past issues: bit.ly/3rvhx5X
Scaling up Permaculture: A Masterclass with Rosemary Morrow and Maddy Harland Permaculture Magazine 2021-11-27 | Permaculture is now a worldwide movement but how do we scale it up to improve the lives of many millions of people? Delvin Solkinson talks with pioneering teacher, Rosemary Morrow, and Maddy Harland, editor and co-founder of Permaculture Magazine and book publishers, Permanent Publications. The work of both women has reached many people globally over decades.They explore developing the Permaculture Design Course curriculum to be even more relevant to more people, evolving the ethics, reaching people at grassroots through practical demonstrations and supporting community leaders, effective low cost strategies for disasters and refugees, the role of media and much more.If you want to see the change so desperately needed in the world, please watch this video and leave your positive ideas to make permaculture a more effective mass movement in the comments.00:00 Introduction04:07 What is going well in permaculture and how is it evolving?15:31 What can be done to support permaculture to be more effective?34:20 How can people develop momentum to create positive change?48:34 What's happening now and what's next in the work that you're doing?Thanks to Delvin Solkinson for organising the discussion: www.permaculturedesign.earthLearn more about Rosemary's work at: https://www.bluemountainspermacultureinstitute.com.au/Learn more about Permaculture magazine and Permanent Publications at: permaculture.co.uk
Decolonising Permaculture with Principle Zero | Rosemary Morrow in Conversation with Sarah Queblatin Permaculture Magazine 2021-10-30 | All permaculture design begins with 'Observe and Interact', but even this step doesn't taking into consideration the history of the land, its peoples and their traditions.Sarah Queblatin, co-founder of Green Releaf Initiative and the Living Story Landscape, believes all designing should take place through the lens of Principle 0, where local knowledge and wisdom is acknowledged.Here Sarah talks with permaculture teacher, Rosemary Morrow, about Principle 0 and how this simple reframing can decolonise permaculture, reconnecting land with its ancestors and ensuring that indigenous people are included in decision making.Learn more about Decolonising Permaculture in PM110: permaculture.co.uk/issue/winter-2021All subscribers both print and digital receive access to all 109 back issue totally free of charge!The article can be read at: permaculture.co.uk/articles/decolonising-permaculture
Future Care: putting the needs of the next generations first / Maddy Harland / Permaculture Magazine Permaculture Magazine 2021-10-15 | What distinguishes permaculture from other holistic design or growing methods is that it aims to create more than a system of sustainable agriculture or organic horticulture; it uses (eco) systems thinking to explore the drivers and ideas behind more lasting, permanent cultures.Maddy Harland suggests that we need to shift our thinking towards 7 generational thinking and decision-making – honouring the wisdom and legacy of the Law of the Iroquois and other indigenous and traditional cultures – in order to design regenerative permanent cultures. Our emphasis cannot just be about human well being but needs to embrace all species on planet Earth.For references and information see: permaculture.co.uk/articles/redefining-third-permaculture-ethic-future-care0:00 Introduction0:39 The Ethics of Permaculture3:25 Seven generational thinking5:02 Existing examples of Future Care8:12 Wellbeing of all species8:59 Ministry for the Future13:42 Hope for the Future19:19 Celebrating Youth – Youth in Permaculture Prize
How to Create a Food Forest in any Sized Garden | Planning, growing & cooking a forest garden Permaculture Magazine 2021-09-18 | Alan Carter grows a diverse range of food (leaves, fruits, roots and flowers) on his 200 square metre allotment in Aberdeen.Maddy Harland has been growing a forest garden with fruit, nuts and unusual trees like Nepalese and Szechuan peppers on chalk for 30 years, with annual veg beds and a wildflower meadow.Here the two bring together their knowledge and experience so others can create their own edible haven too.Alan explains how he began designing and planting his plot; for many this means starting with a blank canvas like a lawn. He shares techniques for feeding the soil and giving your young plants the best start, and how he made adaptations to the forest garden layers for his cooler climate.He shares some of his favourite plants and why you should only grow foods you like. He explores a range of useful plants, including wild garlic, (which is great for shady spaces), celery, angelica, raspberries and sea beet.Maddy tells us how important it is to encourage pollinators, especially for increasing fruit and vegetable production, and how her honey bee hives have been a real bonus.Alan offers tips for soil health and how to create a closed loop system, with no inputs coming from outside the garden. He also talks about managing slugs and snails, the many benefits of including a nettle patch, how to cook your harvests and why you should grow a mixture of annuals and perennials.0:00 Introduction2:54 Cool climate adaptations9:52 Favourite plants18:29 Successful experiments24:30 Slugs and snails 27:55 Annuals vs perennials 32:00 Cooking unusual plants 34:52 Creating diversity 37:22 How to start 43:38 Benefits of nettles 45:51 Growing for food 46:55 Sources of inspiration All of this and more is featured in Alan's book, 'A Food Forest in your Garden' which is available now via Alan's blog: https://www.foodforest.garden/ and our online shop: shop.permaculture.co.uk/a-food-forest-in-your-garden.html
Growing Perennials & Companion Plants: tips for organic pest-free food, medicinals & healthy soil Permaculture Magazine 2021-08-21 | Learn how Tanya from @Lovelygreens has created a low-maintenance vegetable and medicinal garden on a slope, and how she uses perennials and companion plants to create healthy soil and bountiful harvests.Tanya uses perennials and ground cover to prevent soil erosion. She spreads out plants of the same family across the plot to reduce pests moving through the whole crop and incorporates them within polycultures (cottage garden style) for multi-layered beds that are brimming with insects, and bursting with colour and food. Sacrificial plants like nasturtium, are used to reduce pest damage. Companion plants are used to attract beneficial insects such as pollinators, and repel the unwanted ones, helping to create a balanced ecosystem.Tanya grows hundreds of different plants, from annual vegetables to perennial fruits, herbs and medicinals. A lot of Tanya's garden produce is multifunctional, and she makes soaps and plant-based dyes from them too.Tanya talks about her favourite multi-use companion plants in PM109: permaculture.co.uk/issue/autumn-2021She also has a new book that looks at how to create this diverse, buzzing and edible ecosystem: lovelygreens.com/a-womans-garden-grow-beautiful-plants-and-make-useful-things
Perennial and Permanent Planting | Veg Garden Tour Permaculture Magazine 2021-08-07 | Perennial and Permanent Planting. Veg Garden TourLiz Zorab of Byther Farm takes us on a tour of her vegetable garden and young food forest. She shares her tips and techniques, including permanent plantings, that can help save time and save money in the veg garden. The annual vegetable garden can be hard work, so adding in staple perennial plants is a valuable tool, and will mean there's always food, even if you're unable to sow your annuals.Liz looks at perennials like Taunton Deane kale and Walking Stick cabbage, as well as self-seeded annuals and volunteer vegetables, plus red and yellow chard which can still be eaten while going to seed.To find out more about her techniques and experience, see her best-selling book, 'Grounded: A Gardener’s Journey to Abundance and Self-Sufficiency' here shop.permaculture.co.uk/grounded.html
How To Set Up A Bait Box & Attract a Honeybee Swarm / Minimal work for maximum yield! Permaculture Magazine 2021-06-11 | Maddy and Tim Harland take you into the eye of a honeybee swarm as it spirals in a vortex above their garden before settling in a carefully placed bait hive in a tree.Learn how to set up your own bait hive, sit back and watch the bees come. They show how feral bees arrived in May last year. This year the swarm is in June and from the same bees that they placed in a top bar hive in their apiary that are now ready to divide.This is definitely the most exciting and fun way to add bees to a garden!
How To Catch A Honeybee Swarm In Seconds / Natural Beekeeping, from tree to hive in one move! Permaculture Magazine 2021-06-06 | Catching swarms is a great way to raise honeybees and add to your apiary's genetic diversity. Maddy and Tim Harland from Permaculture Magazine show how you don't need a skep or a cardboard box, you can shake the swarm straight into a nuc hive, creating minimum disturbance. No smoke or handling required, we shook the tree once and then let the bees follow their Queen into the safety of a darkened hive box. You can tell she is inside the hive by the behaviour of the bees. Watch the video and find out why!Afterwards, don't feed the swarm, wait 3 days for them to deposit all their honey into the new comb and prevent the spread of disease. Also don't add more frames as soon as the bees are inside. You can spook them and they could abscond. Wait until they have started drawing out comb and add the remainining frames to the nuc to fill the box later in the evening or the next morning. They are less likely to leave.Another piece of advice: Don't add the swarm to the apiary immediately. Place in 'quarantine' until you know they are a healthy colony. Once you are happy you have a free hive of bees for minimal work. Brilliant!Please check out our natural beekeeping playlist here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYL5XsdNx_OH0gfcpzQUteQ0Ji-X5KO1_To find out more about Permaculture: permaculture.co.uk
Permaculture Tools for Soil Repair | Agroforestry, alley cropping, tree planting & water management Permaculture Magazine 2021-05-08 | Imagine transforming barren and empty landscapes into abundant food forests, layered with mangoes, legumes, garlic, herbs and corn.SwaYYam in South India is doing just this by using agroforestry and alley cropping to revitalise soils, produce an abundance of crops and educate local farmers.Agroforestry and alley cropping allow multiple crops to be stacked in one space, with tree crops providing shelter for low-lying plants and holding water in the soil with their roots. Fast growing biomass plants are used as groundcover and then as a mulch to feed the soil. Nitrogen-fixers make nitrogen available in the soil for other plants and a range of crops are grown for year-round food.Swales and ploughing on the contour work with the land's orientation to maximise water capture. Deep irrigation and pitcher irrigation take water deep to the roots of trees, especially young sapling plantings.SwaYYAm and their educational centre, Open Shell Farm, enables local farmers to learn regenerative farming methods, helping them create their own sustainable incomes through healthy soils and bountiful harvests.SwaYYAm is a recipient of the 2020 Permaculture Magazine Prize: permaculture.co.uk/articles/2020-permaculture-magazine-prizeMalvikaa from SwaYYam shares the story of the project and some of their techniques in PM108: permaculture.co.uk/issue/summer-2021
Foraging Natural Fibres | harvest & process nettles for crafts, jewellery making, garden string Permaculture Magazine 2021-05-01 | Often considered a weed, the nutrient-rich nettle (Urtica dioica) is ideal for transforming into a strong, natural fibre to be used in crafts and jewellery making, a natural garden string/twine and a yarn for weaving.Brigitte Kaltenbacher, a sustainable crafts practitioner from BeeKayMakes, explains the best time to harvest nettles and the simple methods for processing them (retting, drying scutching and combing). Once combed, the nettle fibre strands can be made into cordage, thread, string and yarn, useful in the home for crafts and the garden as a strong and natural alternative to most strings.Nettles are often in abundance, but do always forage responsibly. They are home and food to lots of pollinators and wildlife.Brigitte shares more about this process in PM108: permaculture.co.uk/issue/summer-2021For more from Brigitte visit: beekaymakes.co.ukinstagram.com/beekaymakes
Permaculture Tools for Transforming Soil | using mulch, green manures, compost and multi-cropping Permaculture Magazine 2021-04-24 | Permaculture offers a wide variety of tools for creating healthy and productive soil, from the back garden to the farm scale.SwaYYAm in South India uses permaculture and regenerative farming methods to transform denuded and abandoned farmland into productive food enterprises for local farmers.Their educational centre, Open Shell Farm, features a zone one kitchen garden where green manures, mulching, composting, soil regeneration, compost teas, using the contour and multi-cropping showcase the many techniques available.A trellis creates shade for the vegetable beds, a fast growing tree line creates a shelter belt from southerly winds, and swales are used to collect and hold water into the landscape during heavy rains. And the pitcher irrigation system is an innovative addition to SwaYYam's 1000 Tree Project.These tools are being used to transform dry, stoney and barren Indian soils but they can be applied to all situations, wherever you are in the world.SwaYYAm is a recipient of the 2020 Permaculture Magazine Prize: permaculture.co.uk/articles/2020-permaculture-magazine-prizeMalvikaa from SwaYYam shares the story of the project and some of their techniques in PM108: permaculture.co.uk/issue/summer-2021More on SwaYYam at: swayyam.org
How to Plan & Plant a Forager’s Garden Permaculture Magazine 2021-04-17 | Experienced gardener and now author, Anna Locke, shares how to create a Forager's Garden, layered with easy to manage edibles that provide year-round food for you and your local wildlife.The Forager's Garden concept, based on permaculture and forest gardening principles, offers all gardeners simple techniques to create beautiful and abundant spaces, whether on allotments, smallholdings, urban gardens or even in pots on a patio. Anna explains the foundations of the Forager's Garden, elements you need to include and how you can create your own edible paradise, no matter what space or climate you have. And they're perfect for anyone with minimal time too!All of this useful advice is brought together in Anna's book, 'The Forager's Garden' available at: shop.permaculture.co.uk/the-foragers-garden.html
Tools for Transformation in a Changing World / Gratitude, Empowerment & Connection Permaculture Magazine 2021-04-14 | An inspirational and warm encounter with pioneers and visionaries, Looby Macnamara, Jon Young, Drew Dellinger and Maddy Harland, ably facilitated by Delvin Solkinson, who explore the tools that underpin transformation.How can we change the world one step at a time? What are the values we need to nourish in our lives? What attitudinal principles can we adopt? What are the core practices? How can we all emerge as leaders?! Learn more about Cultural Emergence, active hope and changemaking in this rich and moving conversation. To find out more about Looby Macnamara's book see shop.permaculture.co.uk/cultural-emergence.html
How to Build a Rain Garden | Utilise Rainwater and Prevent Flooding Permaculture Magazine 2021-04-03 | Learn how to create your own rain garden, ideal for urban gardens, to reduce flooding and turn rainwater into a useful, free resource.On a small roof, of around 10 x 4m, 1000 litres of water is created for every inch of rainfall. Rain gardens harvest and store water in the soil, not in containers, but in especially made beds where the flow is directed. Rainwater can be cleverly used to feed water-hungry plants, whilst reducing localised flooding, by slowing down the flow of water that usually goes directly into drains and sewers, often overloading the system in cloudbursts.This video shows step to step how to build a rain garden, in gardens large and small, so that you can be part of the solution to localised flooding and grow beautiful productive plants that love lots of water.Check out the wonderful people at Transition Town Worthing who made this film and allowed us to show it on our channel: www.ttworthing.orgFor a full description of the small urban rain garden project please see permaculture.co.uk/issue/summer-2021
Celebrating International Womens Day / Glennie Kindred, Looby Macnamara, Liz Zorab & Maddy Harland Permaculture Magazine 2021-03-08 | On International Women's Day 2021, four authors join together to celebrate the role of women in our lives, explore what women contribute, encourage women the world over to get together. Join us and celebrate your appreciation of women with a simple ceremony led by Glennie Kindred who guides us through the five elements and what women the world over express through them.Meet 4 pioneering authors, Looby Macnamara, Glennie Kindred, Maddy Harland and Liz Zorab, from Byther Farm, all published by Permanent Publications, the book publishing dimension of Permaculture Magazine.loobymacnamara.com/homebytherfarm.comhttp://www.glenniekindred.co.ukpermaculture.co.ukpermanentpublications.co.uk
Permaculture Design & Enterprises / 10 Tips for Successful Ethical Businesses Permaculture Magazine 2021-02-20 | Can permaculture design be applied to enterprises? How do we design ethical businesses that work? What are some of the core values and principles that can guide us?Maddy Harland, co-founder of Permaculture Magazine and book publishers, Permanent Publications (and this channel!), has been running successful, independent enterprises since 1980 and has an incredible track record. Here she shares some of her top insights into ethics and guiding principles and how they can be applied. Unmissable ideas for anyone considering running their own operation, social enterprise or business with care of the Earth and care of people in mind.
Tools for Designing Change / Permaculture Design for People & Society Permaculture Magazine 2021-02-13 | Learn about the Design Web, part of the Cultural Emergence toolkit that can be applied to all aspects of life, including the relationships within your personal community. Connecting with our friends, family and neighbours by simply listening and hearing their needs and struggles can create strong, nourishing connections which in time can open up new emergent opportunities for growth.Learn why having different types of mentors can be useful; elders in the community, those with more experience in an area we need help with and even the younger generation, who see the world through a different lens.Creating regenerative cultures isn't always easy and Looby encourages us to keep ourselves nourished and happy, so we can become role models by example. She also shares tips for keeping nourished and grounded through difficult times, particularly relevant to us all at the moment.Filmed at the launch of the book, Cultural Emergence, with author, Looby Macnamara, and collaborators Maddy Harland, co-founder of Permaculture Magazine, and Jon Young, founder of the 8 Shields Institute.Find out more about:Cultural Emergence shop.permaculture.co.uk/cultural-emergence.htmlLooby Macnamara loobymacnamara.com/home8 Shields http://8shields.orgPermaculture Magazine permaculture.co.uk
Organic Self Sufficiency with Liz Zorab / Growing a nutrient-rich, abundant garden on a small budget Permaculture Magazine 2021-02-05 | Learn how Liz Zorab from @Liz Zorab - Byther Farm turned 0.8 acres of compacted pasture into a bountiful and wildlife-friendly smallholding/homestead.This beautiful transformation has taken five years. Liz shares how she started by creating nutrient-dense raised beds to improve the unhealthy soil and concentrated on making her own compost to feed the garden.As the garden evolved, Liz explains how she created a mix of annual vegetable beds, fruit areas, a food forest, perennial veggie beds and beautiful flower area for pollinators. She even grows sacrificial brassicas to keep a healthy population of cabbage white butterflies as food for birds, bats and hedgehogs.Here Liz shares her journey and top tips for no dig, organic gardening. To find out more about her techniques and journey, see Liz's first book 'Grounded: A Gardener’s Journey to Abundance and Self-Sufficiency' here: shop.permaculture.co.uk/grounded.htmlLiz's second title, 'The Seasoned Gardener' explains how to grow organic food with the seasons, understanding your own microclimate, weather patterns and seasonal changes. She includes best plants, how to make the most of your time and energy, how to be creative with resources and how to find pleasure in doing less. Shop here: shop.permaculture.co.uk/the-seasoned-gardener-out-april-preorder-now.html
Pasture-fed Cattle | Polycultures for a Climate Resilient Garden | Community Food in a Pandemic Permaculture Magazine 2021-01-30 | Three Permaculture Magazine authors shares their stories, exploring the uses of permaculture growing techniques, polycultures and regenerative farming methods.Wade Muggleton from Station Road Permaculture shares his experience of keeping pasture-fed cattle, exploring their purpose in the larger landscape.Kim Stoddart, author and editor of 'The Organic Way' of explains the importance of diversity in the garden, especially with the constant weather and seasonal chnages we're all seeing due to climate change. Kim explains why polycultures offer a resilient alternative to a block planted veg patch.Jennifer Macdonald from Woodside Arran farm on the Scottish Arran island shares how her family set up a land-based business in the pandemic and, through sheer hard work and support, they have thrived and provided hundreds of kilos of food the locals.Learn more about each of these projects in PM107: permaculture.co.uk/issue/spring-2021Music by kind permission of Tygermylk: http://tygermylk.com
Cultural Emergence / A Toolkit for Transformation / Designing Regenerative Cultures Permaculture Magazine 2021-01-27 | Imagine a toolkit that can help you consciously design your life so that your relationship with yourself and your family and friends is more harmonious, peaceful and fulfilling. Imagine that these tools being applied to your local community, your workplace and the wider world ... Cultural Emergence is all this and more. It is an invitation to create personal leadership, collective wisdom and Earth care. Emergence creates breakthroughs that expand our thinking and enable us to build personal and collective resilience.Find out more where the ideas and principles of Cultural Emergence came from, how they are helping changemakers to become more empowered and nourished, and how you can benefit from learning more!Filmed at the launch of the book, Cultural Emergence, with author, Looby Macnamara, and collaborators Maddy Harland, co-founder of Permaculture Magazine, and Jon Young, founder of the 8 Shields Institute.Find out more about:Cultural Emergence shop.permaculture.co.uk/cultural-emergence.htmlLooby Macnamara loobymacnamara.com/home8 Shields http://8shields.orgPermaculture Magazine permaculture.co.uk
11 DIY Projects to Upcycle IBC Tanks and their Metal Cages Permaculture Magazine 2021-01-23 | A wide range of DIY projects can use IBC tanks and their metal cages, from a hot tub and outdoor shower, to biodigester and firewood storage.Matthew and Charis Watkinson from Beeview Farm (featured on Channel 5's 'Into the Wild' with Ben Fogle) take us around their One Planet Development plot in West Wales. Take a look at the multiple uses they've found for IBC tanks. Matthew shows us the reed bed system for cleaning greywater and the log storage unit under the log burner. Charis introduces the 'owl tower' and the storage unit for chicken bedding.Inspiring ideas for upcycling!You can learn more about Beeview Farm's IBC tank projects in PM107: permaculture.co.uk/issue/spring-2021Learn more about Beeview Farm at: www.beeview.farmMusic by kind permission of Tygermylk: http://tygermylk.com
How We Can Shift Ourselves Towards a Regenerative Culture | Cultural Emergence Toolkit Tip Permaculture Magazine 2020-12-13 | Looby Macnamara introduces us to a tool that we can use to shift our minds towards abundance thinking and regenerative cultures. Looby's new book Cultural Emergence is available now: shop.permaculture.co.uk/cultural-emergence.htmlFor all kinds of permaculture products (books, cooking, clothing etc) visit: shop.permaculture.co.uk Subscribe to the Permaculture Magazine: shop.permaculture.co.uk/permaculture-magazine.htmlFind us on Facebook: facebook.com/PermacultureMag Instagram: instagram.com/permaculturemagazine #culturalemergence #permaculture #regenerative
How to Understand & Change Culture | Looby Macnamara on Cultural Emergence Permaculture Magazine 2020-11-14 | Looby Macnamara introduces us to the concept of Cultural Emergence, as well as her exciting new book that gives us a toolkit to transform ourselves and our world by understanding how we can change culture on both the macro and micro. Everyone who pre-orders with us will be invited to a special online launch event with Looby Macnamara. Pre-order here: shop.permaculture.co.uk/cultural-emergence.htmlFor all kinds of permaculture products (books, cooking, clothing etc) visit: shop.permaculture.co.uk Subscribe to the Permaculture Magazine: shop.permaculture.co.uk/permaculture-magazine.htmlFind us on Facebook: facebook.com/PermacultureMag Instagram: instagram.com/permaculturemagazine #culturalemergence #permaculture #regenerative
How to Prepare Polytunnel Beds for Winter | The Complete Guide with @HuwRichards Permaculture Magazine 2020-11-07 | In this video, Huw Richards demonstrates the simple method he uses to prepare any unused undercover raised beds for winter and explains why he takes a different approach in comparison to raised beds outside. It is a very simple process that will help ensure that the next growing season will yield great results. Get your copy of the latest Permaculture Magazine here: permaculture.co.uk/issue/winter-2020 Huw's channel: youtube.com/huwrichardsFor all kinds of permaculture products (books, cooking, clothing etc) visit: shop.permaculture.co.uk Find us on Facebook: facebook.com/PermacultureMag Instagram: instagram.com/permaculturemagazine #polytunnel #permaculture #kitchengarden
Benefits of Ornamentals | Pollarding Apple Trees | Improving Urban Land for Food Permaculture Magazine 2020-11-01 | Three authors from the winter issue of Permaculture Magazine reveal a little more about their projects and how they're using a range of permaculture techniques for abundant harvests and wellbeing.Jan Hoyland gives a mini tour of her ornamental beds that provide a feast for the eyes and soul, as a companion to her veg beds. Jan feels it is important to have a mix of food and ornamentals, for a healthy body and mind.Chris Evans from Applewood Permaculture Centre reveals his experiment with pollarding apple trees, adding firewood and timber to the orchard's abundant harvests.Brandy Hall from Shades of Green Permaculture guides us around a small shady, urban plot that has been transformed into an edible and medicinal paradise, thanks to water management and soil building techniques – all of which easily replicable.For more details on PM106 visit: permaculture.co.uk/issue/winter-2020
The 7 Ways of Thinking Differently | Permaculture Thinking with Looby Macnamara Permaculture Magazine 2020-10-25 | Order your copy of '7 Ways to Think Differently' here: shop.permaculture.co.uk/7-ways-to-think-differently.html In this video, author and permaculturalist, Looby Macnamara, uses an abundant apple tree to explain her '7 Ways to Think Differently' method. 7 Ways to Think Differently explores ways to address personal, social and environmental concerns in simple practical steps in our daily lives, helping us to make incremental, achievable changes. As well as addressing our internal landscapes, Looby explains how individuals and communities can work together to achieve positive change. She also explores the current political and mainstream paradigms and where they are leading us.Looby is featured in the latest edition of the Permaculture Magazine: permaculture.co.uk/issue/winter-2020For all kinds of permaculture products (books, cooking, clothing etc) visit: shop.permaculture.co.ukFind us on Facebook: facebook.com/PermacultureMagInstagram: instagram.com/permaculturemagazine
Growing Apple Trees for Fruit & Firewood | A Regenerative Orchard Experiment Permaculture Magazine 2020-10-18 | Chris Evans from Applewood Permaculture Centre shows us his fascinating experiment where he's managing apple trees not just for fruit, but also for firewood. Applewood is used for a fantastic smokey aroma for all kinds of food and is wonderful firewood, however, it is really hard to come by and often originates from the awful destruction of old orchards. Take a look at how Chris is experimenting with new plantings as well as coppicing and pollarding 25-year-old trees. This video is a supplement to his article in the winter 2020 edition of Permaculture Magazine: permaculture.co.uk/issue/winter-2020For all kinds of permaculture products (books, cooking, clothing etc) visit: shop.permaculture.co.ukFind us on Facebook: facebook.com/PermacultureMagInstagram: instagram.com/permaculturemagazine
Universal Basic Income - what it is and how it can transform societies Permaculture Magazine 2020-10-11 | Countries are spending billions on the furlough scheme and Bounce Back Loans for businesses and finding that they either do not work for everyone who needs them or they are being targeted by fraudsters who are setting up bogus companies to claim benefits. Should we instead be investing in Universal Basic Income, a scheme that pays a basic income (it's in the name!) regardless of individual circumstances? What effects could this have on society?Maddy Harland, editor of Permaculture magazine, speaks with Peter Ellington, an ethical accountant and Associate Professor at the University of East Anglia.Further Information:The crisis in fours planes of social being:Olvitt, Lausanne, L (2017) Education in the Anthropocene: Ethico-moral dimensional and critical realist openings. Journal of Moral Education tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03057240.2017.1342613?scroll=top&needAccess=true&journalCode=cjme20For Roy Bhasker the founder for Critical Realism check out his Wiki profile.
Bees Not Lawns! How to Attract Pollinators Permaculture Magazine 2020-09-13 | Bees are responsible for the pollination of many important food crops around the world. But in the last 10 years, the UK alone has lost a third of its population. So what can we do?For starters, we can let our lawns grow wild, allowing wild, bee-friendly flowers like clover to grow. Simon Pickering from Ecotricity shares the history of the lawnmower and why we need to step away from it.There are plenty of bee-friendly plants we can grow, with a range of shapes and colours being shared here.We also take a 'lunchtime safari' in Stroud and see a diverse range of pollinators, from the chocolate mining bee to the comma butterfly. A great lesson in opening your eyes to your own environment.Video thanks to Ecotricity.More videos on bees can be found in our 'Natural Beekeepin' playlist.Ecotricity and PermacultureEcotricity and Permaculture are partners aligned on their shared values and mission to make Britain greener. Ecotricity are Britain’s greenest energy company – they kick started the now global green energy movement. Their mission was and remains to change the way energy is made and used in Britain.You can learn more about Ecotricity on their website and social media channels:Website: ecotricity.co.ukFacebook: facebook.com/ecotricityInstagram: instagram.com/ecotricityTwitter: twitter.com/ecotricityYoutube: youtube.com/ecotricity
Catching a Late Swarm in August: is it worth it and what to do? Permaculture Magazine 2020-09-06 | Maddy and Tim Harland have a late swarm in the garden. Located in a small apple tree, they show how easy it is to shake a swarm into a box. Later that evening once the bees have settled, they seal the hive and take it to a neighbour's garden to transfer into a brand new home-made hive. Watch how bees follow their Queen into a hive and how easy it is to transport it. Is it worth catching such a late swarm? Take a look and find out!Maddy and Tim founded Permaculture Magazine. Please check it out. Subscriptions now include not just the printed issue, but FREE digital access as well (worth £13.99 p.a.), offering you FREE access to nearly 30 years of back issues, searchable by interest. Solutions, features and money saving ideas from the best writers, teachers and inspirational practitioners from around the world. See shop.permaculture.co.uk/subscribe-to-permaculture-magazine.html
Year-round Veggies, Forest Garden Lessons and Creating Resilience at Home Permaculture Magazine 2020-08-09 | Want to grow year-round veggies? Or create a wildlife-friendly food forest?Three authors from Permaculture Magazine issue 105 share their tips and journeys into growing organic veggies, setting up a forest garden and self-sufficiency.YouTuber and grower, Liz Zorab, explains some of the methods she uses to grow year-round food on her 0.8 acre organic, no dig, market garden, Byther Farm. (youtube.com/c/LizZorab)Andrew Thomas shows us around his young forest garden, revealing some of the lessons he's learnt when creating his wildlife-friendly and mixed variety food forest.Lael Tyrrell Rathje gives a glimpse into the family smallholding, and how they've created a resilient and beautiful lifestyle connected to the land (youtube.com/appleturnovertv).All three authors share more of their tips and story in the autumn 2020 issue, PM105: permaculture.co.uk/issue/autumn-2020For more info on permaculture visit: permaculture.co.uk
Growing Food in Small Spaces, Farming for the Community & Healthy Tree Care Tips Permaculture Magazine 2020-08-02 | Want to grow maximum food in a small space? Want to be more self-reliant in tasty organic food and have a beautiful garden? Layering your growing space is the answer. Pippa Chapman reveals how she grows food for her family in a small courtyard. She uses polycultures to create groups of plants that are beautiful but also edible, uses the vertical to maximise space and create shade, and has perennial plants for continuous harvests and less input.Simon Griffiths tells the story of the local food resurgence in the Dyfi valley in Wales, where small-scale farmers, market gardeners and artisans have fed the community throughout Covid-19. He also visits Tammi Dallaston and her abundant edible garden, who shares her tips for self-reliance. (Sorry about the sound levels!)Wade Muggleton (Permaculture Magazine regular) explains how to plant and maintain healthy trees. Visit his thriving plot and see how his tips have worked both in his orchard and small woodland.All three people are featured in PM105, where they share more of their practical knowledge. Find out more here: permaculture.co.uk/issue/autumn-2020For more info on permaculture and living a regenerative lifestyle visit: permaculture.co.uk
No Dig Organic Vegetable Garden in July – Intensive polycultures for daily yields Permaculture Magazine 2020-07-19 | No Dig organic veggie plots can be incredibly varied and productive. Take a tour around Maddy & Tim Harland's garden (12 x 15m / 40 x 50ft) in mid-summer to see how bountiful a permaculture plot can really be. The key to long seasons of fresh food is stacking time and space, a good design and successional sowings.Maddy shares how she does this across the various raised beds, herb garden and greenhouse (which acts as a mini forest garden with many layers in one small space).See how the overhanging bean frame and brassica cage built in early lockdown are performing.For the names of veggie varieties and the garden in May visit: youtube.com/watch?v=OmVZhLRc-NI&t=30sFor info on permaculture, and how to live more self-reliant, healthy and earth-friendly lifestyles, visit: permaculture.co.ukMusic by kind permission of Tygermylk: http://tygermylk.com
A Tale of Two Hives – Combining a Strong Swarm with a Weak Hive Permaculture Magazine 2020-07-05 | Maddy and Tim Harland's first ever colony is failing. The colony has not replaced the old Queen and her life is over. What to do? One solution is to catch a strong swarm, wait a week, checking for disease, and then move them into the apiary and combine two hives.They show step by step from the swarm arriving to integrating two colonies into one strong hive, without the bees fighting, using a simple tried and tested method. Working with local bees rather than buying in a Queen not only saves money, it also works with nature as the bees are locally adapted and this swarm particularly has a lovely temperament, qualities to encourage. Check out more bee videos on our Natural Beekeeping playlist. For info on permaculture and how to live more self-reliant, healthy and earth-friendly lifestyles, visit: permaculture.co.ukMusic by kind permission of Tygermylk http://tygermylk.com
