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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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 ♥
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Imagine a land where the soil lies crimson beneath a crystal blue sky, punctuated by the searing sun and a changeable band of dusty green and grey vegetation.
A soup for when you have precious little in the cupboard – onions and spices will see you through here.
