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Category: Permaculture

A short and incomplete history of permaculture

An article on permaculture's history - from 1972 onwards - supplied to the New Internationalist magazine by Steve Payne and

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David Holmgren: design approach to food security

David Holmgren says cities can feed themselves...

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Celebrating the conviviality of permaculture

Ian Lillington's approach to permaculture living is hands-on. His 2007 book explains how he went about it and what the

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Sustainability in Australia – a few ideas

First published: 2007 HE WAS QUITE DEFINITE ABOUT IT: “Saving the world is about saving ourselves. The world does not

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Guidance from a real earth keeper

 First published ABC Organic Gardener 2006. WHAT CAN YOU SAY about a book by someone who wears pearls while gardening

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Participatory approach introduces new methods to growers

PTD — Participatory Technology Development — is an approach that encourages farmers to try out new  techniques, to monitor results

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Australian backyards productive places

Australia's backyards were productive places when ABS carried out its census of home garden productivity in 1992...

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Comfortable mudbrick on the Southern Highlands

First published 2003 by Russ Grayson. IT IS WINTER on the Southern Highlands of NSW, a time when the warmth

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Four ways of reading the land

The ability to discern pattern and characteristics in the landscape through the use of a variety of tools enables better

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The man who brought ethics to investment

First published in Green Connections in 1998. AFTER MORE THAN 20 years in the world of money, Damien Lynch wants

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