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Sep 13, 2024 | 
permaculture.co.uk | Chris Hope |Alan Carter |Anne Stobart |Vera Greutink
Rosehips are the fruit of roses, which are members of the Rosaceae family, and have long been used for food, perfumery and medicine. Rosehips are used in many countries, being a rich source of vitamins and minerals, and can be consumed in many food products including jams, jellies, marmalades, teas, powders, baked goods, ice creams, yoghurts, candies, pulps, nectars, juices, wines, liqueurs etc.
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Jan 10, 2024 | 
medium.com | Chris Hope
At the start of 2023, I set ambitious goals for my studio and creative work. I discovered that adaptability can be your greatest ally, especially in the fast paced modern world. It’s impossible to see what the future holds. This blog explores how I kept on track with my goals across 2023, how I dealt with the setbacks and capitalised on new paths. A bit of background, for those of you who don’t know me… that’s the majority of you.
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
permaculture.co.uk | Alan Carter |Chris Hope |Anne Stobart |Glennie Kindred
Medicinal herbalist and forest gardener, Anne Stobart, shares the healing properties of the raspberry plant, and how to make a raspberry oxymel for a sore throat.
RaspberryRubus idaeus Latin nameRubus idaeus L. FamilyRosaceaeHabit ShrubHardiness USDA zones 4-7 | UK zone 3Parts used Fruits/leavesHarvest time Leaves in April-May, fruits in June onwardsA deciduous fruiting shrub with traditional uses of the astringent leaves for diarrhoea and as a uterine tonic.
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Sep 6, 2023 | 
permaculture.co.uk | Liz Zorab |Tanya Anderson |Stephanie Hafferty |Chris Hope
As days shorten and temperatures decline, sowing dates become more precise, because later sowings cannot regain lost time. It’s the opposite of spring when there are better growing conditions ahead, enabling later sowings to catch up. These sowing dates are based on a first frost and dark days by mid autumn; check local knowledge for your best timings.
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Aug 7, 2023 | 
permaculture.co.uk | Liz Zorab |Tanya Anderson |Chris Hope |Graham Burnett
Maddy Harland, editor of Permaculture magazine speaks with Eliot Coleman from Four Season Farm at the 2019 Oxford Real Farming Conference. Eliot, a world-renowned organic market gardener, explains how Four Season Farm in Maine, USA, creates fresh, organic produce year round (even through their cold, snowy winters). By using simple, replicable techniques and no chemical inputs, the farm produces delicious organic vegetables every month.
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Jul 24, 2023 | 
permaculture.co.uk | Tanya Anderson |Alan Carter |Chris Hope |Stephanie Hafferty
Courgettes are useful plant in the veg garden – once established they can provide fruit all summer and right through into autumn. And many of you will know, they can be so abundant, that it can be hard to eat them all!Liz Zorab from Byther Farm, and her YouTube friends, are here to help! They share a wide variety of recipes to use up your glut of courgettes / zucchinis.
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Jun 5, 2023 | 
permaculture.co.uk | Looby Macnamara |Chris Hope |Tanya Anderson
Lulu Vierkötter is a permaculturist through and through. As a 17 year old growing up in an ecological household, she is weaving a deeply interconnected way of existing in the world and into how she shares permaculture. Lulu is a local of Zanzibar in Tanzania, an island vulnerable to climate change and home to a variety of cultural differences. She hopes to find a way she can positively influence her community and the lives of the people around her through permaculture education.
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May 3, 2023 | 
permaculture.co.uk | Alan Carter |Chris Hope |Anne Stobart |Glennie Kindred
Author and forest gardener, Alan Carter, shares a range of herbaceous perennials and climbers to add to your food forest, whatever its size.
Below the trees, we have a rather mixed bag of species that are too small to be called trees, but too large to belong in the ground layer. Some are woody shrubs, some die down and leap back to considerable height every year and others climb up trees or supports.
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Mar 1, 2023 | 
permaculture.co.uk | Glennie Kindred |Graham Burnett |Chris Hope |Simon Hursthouse
The hedgerows are filled with creamy elderflowers. It’s time to forage! Choose elderflower heads that are in full blossom and at their most fragrant to make delicious drinks, skin care and preserves. If you can, try to collect your flowers from areas without too much traffic pollution and above the ‘wee line’. (Imagine a passing wild animal or dog passing by and needing a wee – so picking 60cm or so above the ground should be ok.) Choose elderflower heads with open flowers and no brown bits.
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Feb 21, 2023 | 
permaculture.co.uk | Glennie Kindred |Graham Burnett |Chris Hope
Day and night are of equal length all over the world. In the northern hemisphere we still celebrate it as the first day of spring. The days are getting longer and warmer now, and the nights shorter. This is the festival of balance: the balance of light and dark, the balance of the inner world and the outer world, the balance and joining of the conscious and the unconscious. Here at the Equinox, we can look at and work towards this balance within ourselves.
