Allotted peace

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…

Decoloniziation for Beginners: Inner and Outer Vision

Permaculture Womens Guild

Using the land and our tangible environments as the palette of living changes everything. Life is not just an idea that lives in the head, or a feeling that lives in the heart. Here we have embodied reality, or at least what we call reality at any point in our individual or collective experience. By Maria Zayas As a newbie to permaculture, and an old hand at personal growth, the matter of decolonizing has really piqued my interest. It is easy for me to picture the nature of the colonization process in our physical world: people coopting land and resources,…