The permaculture blog for city-dwellers
Keen to learn how to live more lightly in the city? Me too. For more than a decade, I’ve explored permaculture at the urban scale — via small-space food gardening, low-impact home renovations, a city honesty stall and my own Permaculture Marketing business.
Created in 2012, this permaculture blog explores what’s possible when we city folk embrace more regenerative, connective and calm lifestyles. Because we don’t all want to move to the country.
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Learn how to apply permaculture design to 4 key digital marketing tactics, helping your ethical small business grow sustainably with more integrity and less stress.
The three permaculture ethics of Earth Care, People Care and Fair Share are a universally applicable moral code helping you live and work more sustainably — so they're a brilliant philosophical framework for ethical business and marketing. Here's how to work with them.
Feeling the economic pinch? Here are some frugally fun ideas for hanging out with mates without spending a fortune — which also reduces consumerism and lowers your environmental impact.
This 6-page magazine feature story covers how to plan your own permaculture garden using my simplified four-stage design process: observe, design, implement, iterate.
With a few simple yet strategic permaculture methods, you can grow an edible summer garden that thrives even in very hot and dry weather.
From edible weeds to wild mushrooms, free food is growing all around us — you just need to know where and what to look for. Here are 8 South Aussie experts who can help you get started.
Every season, I take a paid week of deep rest. These quarterly rest weeks restore energy, prevent burnout and make my business more sustainable. Here's how I used permaculture to design this regular rest system.
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Learn how to apply permaculture design to 4 key digital marketing tactics, helping your ethical small business grow sustainably with more integrity and less stress.
They're nurses, business mentors, digital marketers, finance coaches, artists and more. Meet 29 folks applying permaculture in diverse businesses.
I write a regular permaculture gardening and sustainable city living column for ABC, one of Australia’s most-read news websites. Browse my full story archive here.
Since January 2024, I've embraced a four-day work week within my ethical marketing business. These structures and systems make it possible and sustainable.
Olives grow abundantly in many cities, yet often go unpicked. Here's how to forage a free harvest, then cure your own delicious jars of Italian-style olives.
A discussion on how we can apply permaculture in cities and small businesses to create a more regenerative, restful and happy world for all.
This calendula salve — handmade using homegrown flowers — has fast become the only face and body cream I use. Happily, it's easy to make...
Here are simple DIY measures I regularly use in my small city garden to help keep pests at bay — without breaking the bank or using chemicals.
Learn how you can use permaculture thinking to create a sustainable and financially stable for-purpose business, in this YouTube interview, hosted by Honey Atkinson.
