Zucchini Piccalilli Pickles Recipe
It’s official: we love zucchini piccalilli pickles! Jazz up a simple sandwich with our easy-to-follow recipe.
Easy Tomato Passata Recipe
Looking to preserve fresh tomatoes? Here's our easy tomato passata recipe – using either a passata machine or a simple, low-tech, DIY version for those without a passata press. It’s tomato season! Backyard tomato gluts are ubiquitous with this time of year. The logical progression of glut is preserve – where we capture and store the energy... View more
Exclusive ‘Cloudy Jane’ chook song launch w/ Loren Kate
We’re feeling pretty chirpy to help SA singer-songwriter Loren Kate launch her new single – an ode to her favourite hen, a bantam frizzle, called Cloudy Jane. This is a boppy little ditty featuring Loren Kate’s sweet voice, and we know we’re going to be humming it in the chook pen and the straw yard… View more
Pip Podcast #2: Keeping quails with Kat Lavers
Pip Podcast #2 is all about quails! Our editor Robyn Rosenfeldt chats to Kat Lavers about the ins and outs of keeping quails.
Pip Issue 7 has hatched!
Pip Issue 7, the first issue for 2017, has hatched and it’s a beauty! Pip Issue 7Â is our special chicken issue with all you need to know to raise your own backyard chooks; including a complete guide to chicken health care, breeding chickens and raising chickens for meat. We also have all our regular sections… View more
Pip Podcast #1: Tiny House Living with Adam Hickman
We’re very thrilled to share our very first Pip Podcast with you all… we think it’s a cracker too, as we chat with the nicest beardy tiny house dwelling fellow going round, Adam Hickman, who features in issue 6 of the magazine. Adam is a super guy, and his enthusiasm and positivity about the tiny… View more
Low Tech DIY Seed Sprouter
Don't spend a fortune on new-fangled sprouting gadgets... create your own DIY seed sprouter instead! When the summer heat burns our lettuces, we like to keep things fresh in the salad department with home grown sprouts! There are plenty of new-fangled sprout gadgets on the market for the aspiring seed sprouter but the humble DIY... View more
Living gratefully
Last year, 2016, was a bit of a shocker in world politics and environment news. We lost a permaculture giant in Bill Mollison, and at many times it was hard not to feel dispirited with the general state of things. But it wasn't all black, there were plenty of silver linings the world over, many... View more
Buy it Once Gift Guide
The Silly Season is officially here, but that doesn’t mean we all have to go silly buying useless gadgets and bits and bobs nobody really wants! With this in mind we have created the Pip Buy it Once Gift Guide, below. The gifts featured here are all made to last – whether that be through their quality… View more
APC13 in Perth Wrap up
APC13 in Perth by Robyn Rosenfeldt With one hundred and twenty permies, attending over fifty workshops over three days, APC13 (Australasian Permaculture Convergence) was a chance for some of the best minds in permaculture to share ideas, experiences and knowledge with one another not to mention many meals where some of the best discussions happened…. View more
Nasturtium Capers Recipe
Turn your unruly nasturtiums into a tasty treat to keep and eat (or gift!) with this easy nasturtium capers recipe.
Celebrating Bill’s Life
Vale Bill Mollison 1928 – 2016 Bill Mollison, co-founder of the permaculture concept with David Holmgren, passed away peacefully in Hobart, Tasmania, on September 24, 2016. Tributes have flown in over the last few days for this giant of the permaculture movement, a true pioneer and visionary, and today we’re reflecting on a life richly lived… View more
