We’ve all seen purple carrots and stripy tomatoes make waves in our local foodie stores in recent years, but heirloom seeds (those that predate the modern supermarket age) open a world of beautiful fruit and vegetables to the home gardener.
We’ve been exploring the ideas of nature play and wild education in the last few issues of Pip, but in our latest issue we feature a fantastic article on Bush Schools by Niki Buchan, an educator and nature play advocate. We loved her piece so much we needed to know more, and put together this… View more
Grafting: the mind-blowing ancient technique that turns peaches into apricots and quinces into pears. Ever wondered why most fruit trees are so expensive at the nursery? Or how you can get an apple with multiple varieties on the one tree? That is because most fruit trees aren’t simply grown from seed, like common veg. Get… View more
It’s time for the annual Plastic Free July challenge! Here are 31 ways to get started on your journey to live plastic free.
To celebrate the release of Pip Issue 8, with our feature on backyard goats, Pip editor Robyn Rosenfeldt chatted to Maria Cameron of Hibi Farm in Melbourne’s suburbs about their urban goat co-operative. The co-operative is featured in the latest issue, and in this podcast Maria goes in depth about the in’s and out’s, how’s… View more
Pruning citrus can often have folks bamboozled, as they’re often either full of fruit or blossoms. Simon Marshall, landscape designer, permie and pruner to the stars gives us the basics on how, when and why you might think about pruning citrus trees.
Winter is a great time to prune your fruit trees. This is our guide about when and how to prune all your different fruit trees.
Each issue in Pip we profile a permaculture elder – someone who has really helped to create the movement we have today. In our next issue we will feature a beautiful article on Rosemary Morrow, a permaculture teacher and writer from the Blue Mountains in NSW, but to get you in the mood this week we’re… View more
To celebrate International Permaculture Day on May 7, Pip editor Robyn Rosenfeldt goes back to basics to discuss the question “what is permaculture?” is with teacher, designer and all round permaculture super star Hannah Moloney, of Good Life Permaculture. Often those of us who live and breath permaculture forget that we all started out wondering what… View more
We’ve been thrilled with the response to our callout for snaps of Pip Mag Issue 7 when it arrives in your patch, but it’s not too late to share yours with the hashtag #pipmag7 and go in the running to win a pretty chook tea towel from the Pip Shop – we’ll be accepting entries ’til… View more
Last year a giant of the forest of humanity fell, with the news that Bill Mollison passed away in September. Our favourite Permaculture-punk-funk-fusion band, the Formidable Vegetable Sound System have created a moving tribute to Bill with their new song “Trees eat us all”, filled with many of his cracking one-liners. For the song… View more
