Articles

A Reflection on the Last 10 Years
Michael Guerra |
Friday, 1st November 2002

On the basis of the Arabic numbering system that we use, 10 years is a good time to reflect on the progress of permaculture (though permaculture has been around in Britain for 20 years, and it's been nearly 30 since its inception in Australia). For me also it is a...

 

Building With Straw Bales
Barbara Jones |
Thursday, 1st August 2002

Building With Straw Bales – a practical guide for the UK and Ireland by Barbara Jones is available from the Green Shopping Catalogue ...

 

Planting a New Woodland
Patrick Whitefield |
Wednesday, 1st May 2002

Planting a new wood is an exciting project – whether on one's own land or as part of a community project. Trees are the biggest living things on land, and the longest lived. Decisions made now will stand for decades if not centuries, so it's worth taking a great...

 

The Simple Art of Making an Earth Oven
Kiko Denzer |
Friday, 1st March 2002

An oven is just a hole in the ground – light a fire, heat it up, and bake! An earthen oven is about that complicated. If you made mud pies when you were a kid, you can make a beautiful mud oven. You can also do it for nothing (or next to it), and it will work as...

 

Confronting a Corporate Giant
Charlotte Philcox |
Thursday, 1st November 2001

In Norwich earlier this year, a group of campaigners hosted a debate on GMOs, 'Feeding or Fooling the World?'. Attended by some 400 people, it was offered as an alternative to an international conference organised by the John Innes Centre, one of the world's...

 

Using Permaculture Principles Without a Garden
Patrick Whitefield |
Wednesday, 1st August 2001

The basic idea of permaculture is that we take natural ecosystems as the model for what we do ourselves. This is all very well if you have a farm or woodland to work with, or even a large garden. But what about people who only have a small urban garden, or even no...

 

Eco Farming - The New Way Forward
Michael Littlewood |
Tuesday, 1st May 2001

Foot and mouth disease is but the latest in a series of livestock catastrophes which reflect the unhealthy state of farming today. Just 1% of the population manages the land that covers 90% of the country. This is made possible only by heavy dependence on...

 

The Diet of A Forest Dweller
Ben Law |
Tuesday, 1st May 2001

For many years now there has been a 'dividing wall' between the two disciplines of agriculture and forestry in Britain. At best, the concept of growing food amongst the dense shade of a woodland has been seen as futile; yet all around the world forest dwellers...