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.
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.
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.
Gardening with back pain is part of my everyday life, as someone who lives with a chronic injury. Here, my physio shares tips for staying healthy and strong.
Sun mapping is crucial for deciding a garden layout because edible plants need sunlight to grow — the more of it, the better. Here's how to DIY your map.
Filmed for the Forward Thinkers series: take a video tour of my urban Adelaide permaculture garden, filled with veggies, a food forest, chickens and bees.
Here are 5 autumn garden jobs to prioritise as the days grow cooler, to help ensure your permaculture patch continues pumping out food over winter.
Koren Helbig is an ethical digital marketing consultant, journalist and urban permaculturist based in Tarntanya / Adelaide, South Australia.
Ngathu tampinthi Kaurna miyurna yaitya yarta-mathanya. Ngathu Kaurna yartangka tikanthi, tirkanthi, warpulayinthi. I acknowledge and pay my respect to the Kaurna people, the traditional custodians of the land on which I live, learn and work.
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