Permaculture Magazine

Permaculture – earth care, people care, future care is an inspiring magazine designed to equip you with the knowledge and resources to build thriving homes, gardens, economies, relationships, schools, farms, and communities. Inside, you'll find a variety of articles covering topics such as no-dig gardening, food forests, innovative community initiatives, renewable energy solutions, regenerative farming practices, DIY and upcycling ideas, natural construction, education, and wellness. Our magazine is packed with practical solutions, projects, and groundbreaking concepts from the forefront of the permaculture movement.

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Thrutopia: Permacultures of Intelligence and Wisdom

1 month ago | permaculture.co.uk | Maddy Harland |Looby Macnamara |Josh Davis |Pippa Chapman

When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order. Ilya Prigogine, Physical Chemist and Nobel LaureateWelcome back. The late genius Douglas Adams wrote his Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy trilogy in five parts.
Farms of the Future - how agroforesty can feed us

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.
Create your own Compost

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.
Living with the Earth: Volume 3 - Creating a Microfarm

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.
How We Adapt to Climate Collapse: Transformative Adaptation with Rupert Read and Manda Scott

1 month ago | permaculture.co.uk | Maddy Harland

Transformative Adaptation (TrAd) helps us to transform our civilisation to be in readiness for the future and makes life worth living. Impacts beyond 1.5oC, the agreed maximum limit-target for global overheating, are already here. In this context, adaptation, preparedness and resilience-building are no longer optional. They become central, pivotal to whether we survive, let alone flourish.
Celebrating Grassroots Communities: hope and solutions in the face of collapse

Jan 22, 2025 | permaculture.co.uk | Maddy Harland |Patrick Whitefield

58 projects from around the world have been shortlisted for the £250,000 Lush Spring Prize for environmental and social regeneration. The 2025 Lush Spring Prize received well over 600 applications, almost double the amount of the 2023 prize cycle. These were whittled down to a shortlist of 58 individual applications during autumn 2024 (with some applications being shortlisted in multiple categories).
Winter Solstice - celebrating nature's cycles - Permaculture

Dec 9, 2024 | permaculture.co.uk | Glennie Kindred |Maddy Harland |Jo Barker |Liz Zorab

The Sun enters the sign of Capricorn as her rays shine directly at their southern extreme for the year. This is the shortest day and the longest night of the Northern Hemisphere. In the Southern Hemisphere they celebrate the Summer Solstice at this time. The great cosmic wheel of the year, the fiery hub of the universe, the symbolic Wheel of Time, is acknowledged here. Jul or Yule means wheel in Norwegian.
How We Adapt to Climate Collapse

Dec 9, 2024 | permaculture.co.uk | Maddy Harland

Transformative Adaptation (TrAd) helps us to transform our civilisation to be in readiness for the future and makes life worth living. Impacts beyond 1.5oC, the agreed maximum limit-target for global overheating, are already here. In this context, adaptation, preparedness and resilience-building are no longer optional. They become central, pivotal to whether we survive, let alone flourish.
Working with the Moon's Phases

Oct 16, 2024 | permaculture.co.uk | Glennie Kindred |Liz Zorab

The Earth revolves around her axis in one day. The Moon orbits around the Earth in approximately 29 days (a lunar month). The Earth orbits around the Sun in one year. These cycles are the alternating waxing and waning rhythms of Gaia. Understanding their influence and becoming more aware of how their energy affects our lives, enables us to be integrated into their cosmic dance. As seen from the Earth, the Moon and the Sun appear to be equal in size.
The Small No Dig Garden

Sep 13, 2024 | permaculture.co.uk | Martin Crawford |Vera Greutink |Paul Alfrey |Stephanie Hafferty

Maddy Harland, PM‘s editor, gives a tour of her small, no dig garden, on a woodland edge. Filmed in August, Maddy explains how her raised veggies beds produce a modest amount of food for most of the year plus culinary herbs and apples and gooseberries. There are plenty of flowers mixed in with the veg, so much so that there are very few pests.