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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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.
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.
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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.
A soup for when you have precious little in the cupboard – onions and spices will see you through here.
