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 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.
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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.
Raw vegan choc banana bliss balls packed with protein-rich walnuts and chia seeds and naturally sweetened with agave syrup and dates.
A Spanish grandmother shares her traditional recipe for homemade soap from Spain's Castilla-La Mancha region, the original home of the popular Castile soap.
A hearty vegan pumpkin and sweet potato soup super-charged with three – yes, three! – additional sources of protein.
Cheese-free and yet oh so delicious, this vegan pizza is protein-rich with a creamy white bean paste base, topped with eggplant and oregano flakes.
A vegan version of Poland's traditional cold beetroot soup, Chlodnik, plus some musings on the importance of genuine friendships.
