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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Since January 2024, I've embraced a four-day work week within my ethical marketing business. These structures and systems make it possible and sustainable.
Olives grow abundantly in many cities, yet often go unpicked. Here's how to forage a free harvest, then cure your own delicious jars of Italian-style olives.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
