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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
