Lorenzo Costa

1 month ago | permaculture.co.uk | Lorenzo Costa |Rob Hopkins |Patrick Whitefield |Wade Muggleton

“Through agroforestry, the full gamut of benefits trees provide can support a farm’s productive areas, such as improving soil health, providing shade and shelter for livestock, and creating new habitats for birds and insects.

1 month ago | permaculture.co.uk | Jeremy Menefee |Lorenzo Costa |Maddy Harland |Vera Greutink

As the era of peat-based garden compost draws to a close should we perhaps look more widely at the whole issue of compost? On the face of it, compost is an innocuous material that we all take for granted and many of us who ‘grow our own’ no doubt get through a fair few bags of it every year. It symbolises something wholesome and embraces the hands in the soil element of gardening.

1 month ago | permaculture.co.uk | Maddy Harland |Vera Greutink |Martin Crawford |Lorenzo Costa

In this beautifully crafted and insightful guide, Perrine and Charles Hervé-Gruyer’s third instalment, is as engaging as the first. While the book serves as a practical toolkit for those interested in microfarming, its lessons are relevant to anyone looking to deepen their connection with sustainable living by providing food for the family and perhaps the local community.

Aug 10, 2024 | permaculture.co.uk | Maddy Harland |Looby Macnamara |Vera Greutink |Lorenzo Costa

Environmental charity Hubbub has today launched its first ever ‘Community Nature Network’ to help community-led green spaces thrive and bring nature closer to people and people closer to nature. The Community Nature Network, supported by funding from the Wates Family Enterprise Trust and the Bentley Environmental Foundation, will offer funding opportunities, free resources, guidance and peer to peer support to community groups who wish to establish new green spaces or improve existing ones.

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.