Practical Projects
How to grow food and tools for self reliance.
Thrifty times series: Grow, coppice and scavenge your own wood fuel
How to reclaim wood and use it to heat ourselves.
Permaculture and Politics
How can permaculture and politics work together in the politics of the future.
Thrifty times series: Baking your own bread
How to make bread and the use of different grains to make the bread of the future.
Thrifty times series: Home grown food
How to produce your own home grown food as part of moving towards a permanent culture of the future.
Thrifty times series: Keeping Chickens
How to keep chickens as part of future ecological local food supply.
Experimental permaculture: The pond flower
How a permaculture flower pond can help pollinator insects in your garden.
Film: Permaculture allotment plot project update: April 2012
The development of a permaculture plot with a future of scarcity in mind.
Thrifty times series: wine making and beer brewing
How to make wine and beer at home within the context of localized low impact future.
Sharing your surplus to create abundance
How sharing fruit cuttings can provide a large volume of sustainable fruit in an area.
Thrifty times series: One pot cooking
How one pot cooking can play a part in sustainable and permanent culture of the future.
African keyhole garden
This piece looks at the African keyhole garden as a growing structure for a future permanent culture.
The struggle
How our actions can have a very effect as we move away from the old order of capitalism and exploitation towards a permanent culture of the future.
We need your help to build a Permanent Culture Now can you recommend us to your friends
We need your help to build the Permanent Culture Now Project, can you spare a couple of minutes to tell your friends about us, we’ve made it as easy as possible for you to do – cheers Mike and Steve
Film: Bees and Permaculture Article – Brigit Strawbridge
Brigit Strawbridge explains how bees can be integrated into a permaculture design, loads of tips and information on beekeeping and permaculture.
Another seedy Saturday
A description of our seed swap event this year, and how they can be geared towards dealing with climate change.
Guide to Planting Perennial Plants
Guide to planting perennial seeds/plants in a temperate climate.
Permaculture principles
Permaculture principles are key to permaculture, find out about them here and how they apply to real world situations and can be used to develop a permanent culture.
Guerrilla gardening
Find out about guerrilla gardening and why it is important for a sustainable future.
Film: Organising your own seed swap event
Learn how to put on a seed swap event and why they are important for moving towards a Permanent Culture.
Heirloom Seeds
Heirloom seeds are very important for a sustainable food growing future.
What are Weeds?
Some of the plants that we see as weeds are useful as food stuffs and medicines.
Freeganism and urban scavenging
How freeganism and scavenging is a useful way of using discarded usable resources.
An experiment in vertical gardening
How I used one plant to grow another up the stem and yield crops from both.
To Pee or not to Pee
How to use urine as a plant food and compost starter.