Articles

Malcolm Burgess |
Thursday, 1st October 1998

Imagine living in the middle of a 400 acre ancient oak wood. As I write this in May, I'm listening to singing wood warblers, redstarts and recently fledged tawny owls. The wood is teeming with life and bursting with spring growth. Following the path through the...

 
Tim & Maddy Harland |
Monday, 1st June 1998

We moved into our house on the edge of the South Downs in Hampshire in the mid 1980s, a few years before we discovered permaculture. It was two one-up-one-down 19th century flint cottages knocked together with a hideous 1960s flat-roof extension on the back and...

 
Dave Kilroy |
Monday, 1st June 1998

A credit union is a money co-operative owned and run by its members. It provides a safe and friendly place for savings, and low interest loans to members. It exists for service to its members, not for profit - any surplus it makes is given back to the members....

 
Siobhan Mitchell |
Sunday, 1st February 1998

Genetic Engineering is now a part of all our lives whether we like it or not - and surveys show we don't. It offers new assaults on old issues of protest, from human rights abuses (particularly those of indigenous peoples) to animal welfare, and environmental...

 
Matt Dunwell |
Wednesday, 1st October 1997

The Forest Food Directory is a new initiative to encourage and celebrate the production of food within the Forest of Dean. It will list producers who are growing or processing local food or drink, and independent retailers who sell local food. As the policy makers...

 
John Walker |
Sunday, 1st June 1997

Watching 'In Grave Danger of Falling Food' had prompted me to think deeply about forests and natural vegetation systems in general, alongside all I'd ever been taught about digging and other forms of soil cultivation.

 
Ken Fern |
Sunday, 1st June 1997

One of the cornerstones of the permaculture philosophy is to establish permanent systems of plantings to provide food and many of our other needs. One of the difficulties of putting this into practice, however, has always been the lack of knowledge about perennial...

 
Andy Waterman |
Saturday, 1st February 1997

A few years ago, I took over an abandoned allotment thick with couch, bindweed, dips, mounds, scrap metal... you name it! I chose it for its position - easy access, near a tap and with a short cut through the cemetery - and its shed.