A practical approach to sustainable city living.
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 blog explores what’s possible when us city folk embrace more regenerative, connective, green and calm lifestyles. Because we can’t all escape to the country!
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I write a regular column for ABC Everyday on permaculture and organic gardening in small urban spaces. Here you can browse my story archive.
Learn how you can use permaculture thinking to create a sustainable and financially stable for-purpose business, in this deep-dive YouTube interview.
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.
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I write a regular column for ABC Everyday on permaculture and organic gardening in small urban spaces. Here you can browse my story archive.
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.
They're nurses, business mentors, digital marketers, finance coaches, artists and more. Meet 22 folks applying permaculture in diverse businesses.
As our cities become increasingly urbanised, planting a mini food forest is a simple way to grow low-maintenance healthy local food. Here's how I made mine.
Green manures are an easy way to build great soil for veggies or fruit trees, at low cost. And it doesn't actually involve any animal manure at all.
Here's the #1 question to ask yourself when considering sustainable home renovations, which will help you decide where to start and what you should change.
Here's how to save money on chicken feed while enriching your hen's lives, training your flock to be friendlier & producing better-tasting eggs.
This YouTube interview looks at how permaculture can help you get clear on your values — plus how to effectively apply those values to your work, scheduling, offerings and content creation.
Diversify your feed and step outside of your own echo chamber — here's a list of 40 excellent Instagram accounts to start following.
