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Jun 21, 2024 | 
permaculture.co.uk | Lorenzo Costa |Julie Bruton-Seal |Tanya Anderson |Graham Burnett
Any Human Power is the latest novel by Manda Scott, known for her Boudica series, who has recently contributed five articles to Permaculture magazine. It is an entirely different animal to her historical trilogy and yet it holds some of the themes and keys in her earlier work. This is an exploration of how we might transition to another world that is possible, to paraphrase Arundhati Roy. Manda does this through various original themes.
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
permaculture.co.uk | Lorenzo Costa |Julie Bruton-Seal |Graham Burnett |Liz Zorab
Since I live in the Netherlands, the largest producer of cut flowers worldwide, growing my own flowers for cutting might seem like bringing coal to Newcastle. But because I do not like the way most of the flowers for the market are produced (forced in large-scale greenhouses and often sprayed liberally), I still prefer to grow flowers myself – organically. Besides, store-bought cut flowers can hardly compete with the easy charm and variety of flowers you can grow in your garden.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
permaculture.co.uk | Looby Macnamara |Pippa James |Maddy Harland |Graham Burnett
Permaculture Week is a celebration and deep dive into the world of permaculture. From people care community and education, to design and landscape regeneration. In celebration, we (Permaculture magazine) have an exciting week of collaborations with a selection of permaculture practitioners from around the world. Each day one of these ‘permies’ will be live on our instagram (HERE) exploring their journey into permaculture and how they work with it daily.
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
permaculture.co.uk | Liz Zorab |Stephanie Hafferty |Graham Burnett |Vera Greutink
It’s that exciting time of year when it’s time to look through the saved seed from last year (or leftover bought seeds) and decide what to grow this spring. There are always adjustments to be made.
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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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Apr 4, 2023 | 
permaculture.co.uk | Caroline Aitken |Vera Greutink |Stephanie Hafferty |Graham Burnett
No dig kitchen gardener, Stephanie Hafferty, is well-known for turning her organic homegrown veg into colourful and tasty meals. Here we share three seasonal recipes from her book The Creative Kitchen, which is packed with recipes for salads, dips, sides, main meals, drinks and even cleaning products, balms, soaps. Roast onion salad with wild garlic pestoThis salad is delicious made with shallots, spring onions and leeks.
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Apr 3, 2023 | 
permaculture.co.uk | Caroline Aitken |Vera Greutink |Graham Burnett |Stephanie Hafferty
Want to grow broccoli, cabbage and kale but always picking off cabbage white caterpillars or shooing away pigeons? Sick of getting tangled up in temporary netting?! Tim and Maddy from Permaculture magazine show you how to build a moveable brassica cage that opens easily for weeding and harvesting from entirely recycled materials during lockdown in easy steps.
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Mar 28, 2023 | 
permaculture.co.uk | Glennie Kindred |Stephanie Hafferty |Graham Burnett |Paul Alfrey
Foraging for medicinal herbs can be fun and easy. Sarah Furey shares her recipe for a cleansing tea made from nettles, cleavers (goosegrass), dandelion and peppermint.
As a Herbalist, Spring brings a particular joy. Not only am I planning which medicinal herbs to start growing in my garden, but I am also out walking the fields and hedgerows looking for the first signs of Spring herbs. Identifying wild plants is the key.
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Mar 28, 2023 | 
permaculture.co.uk | Vera Greutink |Graham Burnett |Stephanie Hafferty |Joan Bailey
Author, gardener and YouTuber, Vera Greutink (GrowntoCook) grows her own food in the Netherlands on a quarter acre / 0.1 hectare. Here she shows 10 easy perennial vegetables that can be grown for harvesting during spring, often known as the ‘hungry gap’. Many of the 10 are suitable for growing in an edible forest garden and are beautiful, so your plot will be both delicious and eye-catching.
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Mar 10, 2023 | 
permaculture.co.uk | Graham Burnett |Paul Alfrey |Flo Scott |Vera Greutink
Organic and no-dig gardener, Stephanie Hafferty, shares her favourite edible flowers. See PM88 for her favourite recipes.
Organic and no dig gardener, Stephanie Hafferty, loves to include a wide range of edible flowers in the veg garden. Her Stephanie shares a selection of flowers she grows and how you can use them in various recipes. Below are some of her beautiful photographs showing edible flowers that you can grow at home.
