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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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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, hosted by Alana Jade, 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.
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.
