Breathing Spaces is a large format book full of thought provoking and positive quotations from a wide range of pioneering thinkers, writers, poets and activists including Vandana Shiva, Lao Tse, Bill ...

A SPECIAL OFFER FOR SPRING! ORDER TODAY AND RECEIVE A FREE COPY OF OUR ‘TOP OF THE CROPS’ GUIDE TO MAKING YOUR EDIBLE GARDEN GROW! Permaculture fits well with the idling philosophy. Both are about emb...

Forest gardening is a low-maintenance sustainable plant-based food production and agroforestry system based on woodland ecologies, incorporating fruit and nut trees, shrubs, herbs, vines and perennial...

BOOKINGS ARE NOW OPEN FOR 2025! London’s full Permaculture Design Course begins at OrganicLea  this spring. This course offers positive design for your life, your community, and your world by empoweri...

Human Needs and Permaculture – Sustainable vs Regenerative Design for People Care How can permaculture and the people care ethic help to meet real human needs, particularly in these currently challeng...

This Spring marks the 40th anniversary of taking on my first allotment as a vegan organic grower. Back in 1984 I was part of the Southend Libertarian and Anarchist Group, a loose collective of punks, ...

Creating Your Forest Garden Step By StepDespite the name, which perhaps implies that they require large amounts of space, forest gardens can be a way of incorporating edible and useful trees and bushe...

Join us with experienced permaculture teacher Graham Burnett at Marlpit Community Centre to find out and learn how you can apply permaculture ethics, principles and design to your own garden, communit...

Do YOU want to grow your own?? Top of the Crops is a low cost, non-nonsense beginners guide to producing fresh and tasty vegetables, herbs and fruit in your own back garden or whatever space is availa...

LIfestyle Gardening? No Thanks! Friends and colleagues are often surprised by my attitude towards Reality TV gardening shows- for aren’t they are encouraging the cathode-ray addled masses to get outdo...

BOOKINGS ARE NOW OPEN FOR 2025! London’s full Permaculture Design Course begins at OrganicLea  this spring. This course offers positive design for your life, your community, and your world by empoweri...

Permaculture fits well with the idling philosophy. Both are about embracing the slow, the subtle, the patient: understanding that true abundance – whether in crops or in life – comes not from frantic ...

Collected gardening columns and art from the Idler magazine, 2005 - 2024 by Graham Burnett.