From a bare field to a staggeringly productive and beautiful food forest in just a few years, full of beneficial insects, amphibians, birds and mammals. This is a story of natural regeneration at its ...

A complete guide to straw bale building in 320 pages? It’s an ambitious task which has been put to the test by Rikki Nitzkin and Maren Termens in a 2020 English-language update to their 2016 second ...

Permaculture garden designer, Pippa Chapman, shares her top tips for making a mini forest garden, from making the most of the vertical space, incorporating layers and adding beauty. I did my ...

Michael Feldmann describes how to create fruit bushes and some fruit trees for free, by taking cuttings and propagating. He also shares the ideal natural ingredients to boost growth of cuttings, ...

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 ...

No dig expert and kitchen gardener, Stephanie Hafferty, shares five elderflower recipes. Learn to make elderflower champagne, liqueur, sugar, vinegar and oil. The hedgerows are filled with creamy ...

Maddy Harland grows oca, a South American tuber, and explains how to extend the season, select next year's crop, and store your crop. A delicious addition to the no dig kitchen garden. Oca is a South ...

Pippa is a professional RHS trained horticulturalist, permaculture practitioner and teacher. She experiments with polycultures and guilds at her smallholding in West Yorkshire whilst working as an ...

A useful guide to forest gardening and medicinal herbs, with detailed information on 40 helpful trees and shrubs. A great many forest gardens have sprung up over the last couple of decades. People ...

After several years working in organic agriculture and horticulture, Martin Crawford founded the Agroforestry Research Trust in 1992. Since then he has focused on researching and growing perennial ...

Malvikaa is a certified permaculture designer, consultant and an educator, yoga therapist, cook and FarmHer. She lives and works on the Open Shell Farm and is the chief designer for the 1000 Tree ...

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 ...