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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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.
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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.
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 ♥
Join me on a walk through the garden of South Australian medical herbalist, Patrizia Bronzi, and learn simple uses for everyday herbs.
Kombucha is insanely easy to make at home. And the process of keeping a culture alive + turning it into a healthy bevvy with just tea, time and a little sugar is something close to magic.
When life gives you lemons, moonshine and an Italian imported direct from the motherland, you have to make limoncello.
A deliciously spicy sprouted lentil dip which, dumped atop fresh bread, makes for a hearty lunch or snack.
So delicious it should be criminal. Whizz up your own all-natural ABC nut butter with almonds, Brazil nuts and cashews.
