Food Forests

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The seed knows what it does and how it does it.

Reading Time: 4 minutes When it comes to growing plants in your food forest you always have two choices: Option 1. Adapt the plants to your site conditions; OR Option 2. Adapt your site conditions to the plants. The option of adapting your site conditions to the plants is definitely one where you’ll need to continuously put extra effort […]

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All you need is cabbage, salt, and to remember a few important details

Permaculture Womens Guild

By Dido Dunlop Our hearts and outer world grow hearty together To restore Mother Nature, and grow tomatoes in our cities, we must redesign our inner gardens. New ways will only hold strong if we regenerate our inner culture too. What are our inner tomatoes? In meditation we cultivate all sorts of interesting plants in mind and heart. Kindness, love for life, resilience, humour, steadiness through trouble. Mother Nature’s Elements I’m a meditation teacher and climate activist. I grew up in the New Zealand bush. I began meditating to find the ‘bush’ feeling in the city. My first teacher taught us to…

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Racism and climate change are linked in many ways. We must be anti-racist environmentalists.

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Gardening diversity is essential for balance and harmony, as is diversity in our lives.

Permaculture Womens Guild

We can use celtic wisdom and regenerative culture to deepen our connection with the Earth