Gardening

Permaculture Womens Guild

The problems we have with Earth care really stem from the people care side of things

Permaculture Womens Guild

Permaculture for people with disability- positives, challenges and suggestions for a more inclusive permaculture.

Permaculture Womens Guild

By Julia Pereira Dias When I was about eleven years old, my little brother, then six, slipped me a note to invite me to his room. Those days, I often felt bothered by my brother, who didn’t really have anyone else to play and interact with (my parents lived in their own world, but that’s another story). I wanted to go to my room instead and lock myself up. His room was next to mine and as I approached my door, I changed my mind and decided to honor his invitation. I knocked on his door. ‘Come in,’ he called…

Permaculture Womens Guild

If you’re brainstorming the coming season’s garden and are looking for a low-maintenance, multi-use, beautiful, and long-blooming flower, look no further, grow calendula!

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By Dido Dunlop (part of a talk at our New Zealand Permaculture gathering 2015, exploring how we can apply Nature’s ecosystems model to human relationships, to create a resilient way to live; it’s a contribution to Social Permaculture) What do we do with emotions that feel bad? How do we turn our miseries into rich nourishing resources, into love and constructive action? When we try to throw things out that smell bad, they don’t go away. That applies to emotions as much as food scraps and poo. We put our ‘waste’ in the compost heap so as not to waste…

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What is Ecofeminism? The five elements are one way to explain.

Permaculture Womens Guild

Increase vitality through connection with common weeds, examine your attitude to nettle and dandelion to bring you back to life.