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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A discussion on how we can apply permaculture in cities and small businesses to create a more regenerative, restful and happy world for all.
This calendula salve — handmade using homegrown flowers — has fast become the only face and body cream I use. Happily, it's easy to make...
Here are simple DIY measures I regularly use in my small city garden to help keep pests at bay — without breaking the bank or using chemicals.
Learn how you can use permaculture thinking to create a sustainable and financially stable for-purpose business, in this YouTube interview, hosted by Honey Atkinson.
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.
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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.
I write a regular permaculture gardening and sustainable city living column for ABC, one of Australia’s most-read news websites. Browse the story archive here.
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 ♥
Weeds can be valued as edible medicinals just as much as any carefully cultivated plant. Join me in South Australian medical herbalist Patrizia Bronzi's garden, and learn simple uses for seven everyday wild 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.
