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 not all of us want to move to the country.
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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.
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A vegan version of the traditional French King Cake, made for the Epiphany holiday – and gifted to us by our couch surfing hosts during a stay at Lyon.
An easy homemade Nutella recipe that's handily also vegan, healthier and – I think – just as good as the original.
A super simple way to turn roasted veggies into a full meal that's full of protein and tastes yum too.
Spice up your 'papas arrugadas' (boiled baby potatoes) with green or red 'mojo', a Gran Canarian sauce with delicious African spice influences.
A thick and hearty vegetarian goulash recipe from the mountains of Slovakia + some thoughts from my time couch surfing there.
A deliciously warming peach cobbler recipe – and I'm moving to Spain!
For years, my friends and I kept a group journal during epic overseas travels together. Here's how I designed handmade fabric journal covers to safekeep these momentos.
This beautiful land of colour and contrast each day finds a way to challenge my own ideology or perception.
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.
