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3 MY KITCHEN GARDEN

Emma Cooper describes the summertime flourishings of her prolific urban patch.

6 RECONNECTING LAND & PEOPLE?

Why is planning so hard to get for genuine low impact development? Mike Hannis visits projects and explores what needs to change.

an innovative framework for creating

sustainable ways of living; a practical method

for developing ecologically harmonious,

efficient and productive systems that can

be used by anyone, anywhere.

10 SUSTAINABLE BEEKEEPING

With global honeybee populations plummeting, David Heaf offers a possible solution in the form of the Warré hive.

17 CYCLING FOR SUSTAINABILITY

Juliet Kemp’s useful tips for ditching the car and converting to pedal power for our daily transport.

20 A STITCH IN TIME

How climate change and peak oil has inspired John-Paul Flintoff to shun the fashion industry and make and mend his own clothes.

22 PERMACULTURE PRINCIPLES

Maddy Harland takes a fresh look at the principles that underpin permaculture design.

27 CREATING HARMONY

Michiyo Furuhashi introduces a Japanese ecovillage that is almost entirely self-sufficient and is teaching sustainable agriculture to its neighbours.

35 THE ART OF READING THE LANDSCAPE

Understanding landscape is not only fun, it is a vital way of understanding sustainability and reconnecting with the Earth. Patrick Whitefield explains why.

38 A NEW WOODSMAN’S TALE

How PM made Ian Varley’s mid-life crisis definitely worth having, enabling him to live his dream and make a living working with wood.

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41 CHAMPION THE LUMBER HORSE

Mike Abbott describes how to make a modern, efficient shaving horse from mainly scrap materials in just a couple of hours.

45 LES PORCS IN PERMACULTURE

How to be happy keeping pigs in permaculture. Stuart & Gabrielle Anderson share their experience of raising pigs on their smallholding in France.

49 CATCH ‘N’ STORE WATER

With climate change threatening drought as well as flood, Daniel Halsey explains how to design resilience into your orchard or farm.

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