Self Care · Permaculture Women Magazine

Growing Old With Permaculture

How much thought have you given to aging? Using the permaculture design process, consider creating a plan for your elder years.

A Manifest for the Embodiment of Imperfection

We all want to become better, fitter, happier. As long as we believe in guilt and shame, though, self-improvement is bound to make us suffer.

Why It Is So Hard To Love Ourselves

When we struggle with frustrations, overwhelm, anger, anxiety, our family members or keeping our socks together in pairs, there is this one advice we hear often:

What is zone 00 design and why should you start yours?!

I don’t know you, but for me, reading self-development books has always been intensely frustrating.

Lessons From A Tree: Living and Creating With Earth As Play

Am I done with choosing struggle? What would it be like to navigate the unknown with play? This is the story of how a tree showed me a way.

The Medicine of Making Your Own Cosmetics

I make big quantities of it because it’s really the most miraculous cream ever, and it really helps with both oily or dry skin to level out the essential oils of the skin itself. It’s also great for marks and a natural sunscreen.

My 10-Point Plan for Feral Eldership

I only wish to become old if I can also become an elder.

Kindness Circles, surrounding community

It’s interesting how a simple act of kindness can multiply itself into thousands of good deeds in a short time, but how does that happen?

Creative Economy and Fringe Empowerment

How to connect de-urbanism, creative industries, regenerative practices, solidarity economies and social entrepreneurship.

Spiritual gardening, the way out of suffering.

Ever walked along a Chinese garden, public or private, urban…

We can do better: Resources and Options for Solidarity with Queer people in permaculture.

Resources for the queer people in permaculture

Integrity dynamics

Integrity dynamics and identity

A Design Cycle Application: GOBRADIMET

Sample design description and activity worksheet for GOBRADIMET.

Seed Saving: If not us, who?

What does the 2008 crisis, illegal drug cartels, your mental health and seed saving have in common? A lot more than you’d think.

Permaculture communication skills

Permaculture communication skills, speaking with compassion and the need to be understood.

Plants as Friends and Family Members

Reclaiming our sense of belonging.

Cracking the underwear code: make your own underwear

Take another step towards autonomy as you make your own underwear.

Green Tara, The Ecofeminist Goddess, Shows Us How To Embody Regenerative Culture

By Dido Dunlop Green Tara is a role model, to…

How to let go: a permaculture mental health strategy

releasing old pain by dealing with grief, caring for your body, making art, and getting dirty

Decoloniziation for Beginners: Inner and Outer Vision

Using the land and our tangible environments as the palette…

Permies of the world unite!

A manifesto for an internationalist permaculture movement By Becky Ellis…

A survival guide to teenage drama that just gets worse with age

A survival guide to teenage drama to make sure you’re not depleting your renewable resources to the point your internal landscape turns into a barren land (at least as friendships are concerned.)