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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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.
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Making your own veggie stock powder is heaps easy — and a great way to sneak extra greens into all sorts of meals, all year round.
A simple explanation of key concepts that make growing organic food so much easier — get your head around the 'plant needs hierarchy', compost vs fertiliser, how much to water + more.
Feeding the soil is your number one job as a veggie gardener. Here's the best organic fertilisers to use for growing nutritious and healthy produce.
This calendula salve — handmade using homegrown flowers — has fast become the only face and body cream I use. Happily, it's easy to make...
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.
Honesty stalls are common in country areas — little stores filled with homegrown produce sold to passers-by, who pay into unattended cashboxes. Why not so in cities? Here's how to create your own urban stall.
Sour plums ripen on street trees across Adelaide in early summer. Many folk dismiss these trees as purely ornamental, but the fruit can be yum! Here's two ways to use one batch of foraged sour plums.
Here's a list of my favourite South Aussie Instagram accounts, so you can share in their awesomeness, too. These are folk I love to follow for constant inspiration, tips, knowledge exchange and ideas ♥
