Articles

Graham Burnett |
Wednesday, 30th March 2011

Inspired by the work of Transition Town Totnes and Transition Town Brixton, a small group of friends and activists met in 2007 to discuss ways of responding to the challenges of climate change, peak oil and financial...

 
Maddy Harland |
Tuesday, 29th March 2011

One of my favourite...

 
Maddy Harland |
Monday, 28th March 2011

There is little food in my garden at this time of year. The coldframes are full of salads – self-seeders and other leaves that have survived the winter snow in their protected environment. There's a few carrots left, spring onions and some cavollo nero and...

 
Louise Hoskins |
Thursday, 24th March 2011

I volunteer in a beautiful woodland in the Wensum valley, west of Norwich, in Norfolk. I came here as a WWOOFer in February and March 2010. I was humbled and grounded by the variety of habitats and species here, and the intuitive management of the woodlands owner...

 
Tim Green & Rebecca Hosking |
Sunday, 20th March 2011

When I say 'earth' what I really mean is soil. I know they are not strictly the same thing but I was quite proud of my clever title. Like almost all farms we have unhappy soil and unhappy soil makes for unproductive soil.

 
Michiyo Furuhashi |
Friday, 18th March 2011

In Permaculture 61 Michiyo Furuhashi introduced us to a Japanese ecovillage, Konohana community, that is almost entirely self-sufficient and is teaching sustainable agriculture to its neighbours near Tokyo.

 
Alice Griffin |
Tuesday, 15th March 2011

Flushing our waste down the toilet with water seems, to most, a hygienic and easy way to wave goodbye to something nasty. Once it's gone, most people rarely give it another thought.

 
Tim Green & Rebecca Hosking |
Wednesday, 9th March 2011

To call this just another blog about sustainable living and ecological food production would be essentially correct. What makes this slightly different is that we have 160 acres, a crumbling infrastructure, no money and, on a practical level, are inexperienced....