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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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.
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...
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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.
Recycle used coffee grounds into a luxuriously exfoliating and all-natural homemade coffee and cinnamon soap.
Spiced chai is possibly the most delicious of teas. And this seven-spice recipe is the most delicious version of this delicious tea. True!
Vegan and refined-sugar-free, these peanut butter bliss balls take just 15 minutes to make and require absolutely zero cooking.
