Articles in Permaculture
Article by By Kathleen Anderson Freelance Writer
Paul Murray is a self-realized artist. He has invested his whole life and soul in his current work: The LivinginPeace Project, which aims to combine the …
Jules Verne and I have nothing in common.
My first circumnavigation of the world took over 10 years to complete. Traveling into the sunset, If I’d been going about it in a straight forward fashion that’d …
This article was submitted by Positive Writing Student Joanna Piekarski and is also the beginning of a new exchange that Happyzine will be hosting …
Living the good life. That’s how pioneer back-to-the-landers Helen and …
The thing I like about the internet is that I generally start searching with a certain theme or subject in mind and then I usually end up somewhere else. It’s like taking a magic …
By Suzi Franks
I know, I know you would NOT believe spring is upon us…
But the birds are definitely singing, my orchard tress have buds and blossoms and there is a general ‘lightening of mood’ in …
By Rebecca Toon – New Zealand
The hour of the trowel has come. Jules Dervaes is pioneering a revolution from his backyard that will change the way you feel about this humble tool and your own …
Assignment 3, design for a catastrophe, the question asks: What is the prediction for future catastrophes, is your home in an at-risk area?
Unfortunately, there is no method for predicting any of these …
There’s nothing like changing a newborn nappy by candlelight to remind me of the perils of Peak Oil. Romantic it wasn’t.
For a few months there my bedtime reading was Rob Hopkins’ Transition Town …
Last week I chatted merrily about water conservation, about my dreams to capture more and how to put it to use. A very keen part of the permaculture process. Another principle of permaculture …
Since my previous ramblings about food here on Happyzine, I’ve spent far too much time with my nose in a book called “Eating Animals” by Jonathan Safran Foer. As the title suggests, it tackles the …
I check the weather online almost as often as I check my email. Not that it changes anything- we’ll still get weather. So it seems almost ironic, in a very long wet winter, …
Gardening is all about planning and permaculture is no exception to that rule. Despite having a degree in Making It Up As You Go Along, when I garden I need to have a convincing …
Despite never having actually owned my own garden I had been secretly practicing the principles of permaculture, left and right and all over the world, for years- but not knowing it. I was like many …
On returning to New Zealand we feared we’d missed the bus. Was the kiwi Quarter Acre Paradise no more? Pieces of land bounding the city’s limits were now ‘lifestyle’ blocks and were equally unaffordable.
Two nomads …