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 not all of us want to move to the country.
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In this free intro workshop, learn how to apply permaculture to four key digital marketing tactics, supporting your small business sustainably, with more integrity and less stressy rushing.
Here are 5 spring garden jobs to prioritise as the days grow warmer, to prepare your permaculture patch for a plentiful summer bounty.
The 12 permaculture principles are practical thinking tools that can help you make more ethical business and marketing decisions. This 13-part series explores them all in depth.
Living alone, it's easy to fall into eating habits that aren't great for my health or wallet. These simple permaculture-infused tactics help make cooking for one feel more doable, affordable and lower-impact.
Want to build an ethical small business, but often feel burnt out or unsure where to focus your energy? This free workshop offers practical tools to balance personal, financial and environmental sustainability.
Jodi Wilson's latest book, A Brain That Breathes, is full of evidence-based, practical habits for creating more free time in your everyday — and even includes some tips from me.
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Worn out by the exhausting churn of chaotic world news, I found myself increasingly retreating to the screen-based monotony of TV and streaming services. Here's what happened when I gave all that up for a month.
Got about 2.5 square metres to spare in your veggie patch? Great, you can grow enough garlic to eat for a full year. Here are my top tips for prepping soil, planting cloves, and harvesting and storing garlic.
"Green" bags aren't so green – they're often made of polypropylene, a type of plastic derived from petroleum. Here's how to make your own tote bag instead, using secondhand or vintage fabric.
In this age of AI and automate-everything, here's a counterpoint to the story that more tech tools = better business. Explore the lean, permaculture-infused approach I take to building my ethical business toolkit.
Whether you're brand new to permaculture or looking to deepen your existing skills and knowledge, my 'best permaculture books' list offers 25 excellent options for your to-read pile, for up-skilling in the garden and home.
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 apply 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.
