Priya Logan

Permaculture Womens Guild

Things We Can Let Go Of In A Crisis. By Priya Logan Sometimes we are like snakes that have outgrown our skins. Sometimes, we need to shed them for safety. It is a difficult time right now for many people and for many, it already was. Some of the more redundant elements of our culture can and could be easily walked away from; it may be good to remind ourselves these are not necessary. Here is a list of a few things you can pretty comfortably, ( in most cases ), live without. Expensive cosmetics, moisturiser being an obvious one. In…

Permaculture Womens Guild

By Priya Logan One of the most impactful books I have ever read was The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, which is a memoir transcribed to a personal assistant by a French Journalist, Jean-Dominique Bauby. Where the autobiographical tale picks up, he had spent several years with a rare and completely debilitating condition called locked-in syndrome. It is a beautifully recounted, brave and soulful work. It hit a deep chord because I was also working as a personal assistant for a man in his mid-thirties who had become tetraplegic in his late teens. He had been unable to move anything…

Permaculture Womens Guild

My allotment, a small gateway into the living land, has been of prime importance to my connection to the ground of Permaculture. I have been signed up and working through my diploma for seven years now. At this point, it means weaving together a thousand notes in earnest. By Priya Logan A permaculture diploma must contain some land-based designs which make sense though this was not something I had a lot of confidence with when I started. At one point I saw growing, building and creating with envy and trepidation. However, I also wanted to get there. I was more…