Reading Time: 4 minutes Whenever someone asks me to help them design their site, my inner designer says, “give me a topographic map of your site.” With a topographic map, I can feel the terrain and decipher what’s happening from a distance. I can see what the landscape looks like, how the water moves, where there’s a potential for […]
Thinking of starting a permaculture business? Then read this…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Have you ever had a job where you had to sacrifice your values for money? Where you were doing things that went against your beliefs, but the job was paying your mortgage and living expenses, so you just hung onto it? I can wholeheartedly relate to that… During my career as a geologist, I had […]
The best-known permaculture demonstration site on the planet
Reading Time: 5 minutes The beautiful thing about permaculture is that you can make almost any location work. If you’re forced to make the best of it, you can even grow in the desert or close to the Arctic Circle. That doesn’t, however, mean that it wouldn’t be easier if you were on a site with a better climate, […]
How much land do you need? (free calculator)
Reading Time: 9 minutes Most of my subscribers plan on purchasing some land to improve and farm in the future, maybe even set up a food forest – but often, it’s just a pipedream at the moment. What’s holding them back? “I can’t afford to buy land yet. Realistically it will be X years before I can get the […]