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-infused digital 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.
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.
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.
They're nurses, business mentors, digital marketers, finance coaches, artists and more. Meet 29 folks applying permaculture in diverse businesses.
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.
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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.
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.
A deep-dive chat on how permaculture design thinking can help you build regular rest and downtime into your work and business, while remaining financially stable.
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.
