The True Cost of Clothing
In this age of fast fashion where clothing is made to be cheap and disposable, it takes a concerted effort to find clothes that are truly ethical.
Pip Ethical Gift Guide
Get inspired and feel good about the gifts you give with our ethical gift guide from the Pip Team.
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…
Eat | Self-reliance | Thrive
How To Make Ginger Bug
Kombucha may get all the attention when it comes to fermented drinks, but we think ginger beer is just as fabulous. We show you how to get started with your ginger bug.
Ten Ways to Love your Group, Family and Community
As permies, we love community, people care and working together, but working in a group can sometimes be fraught with challenges. Social Permaculture practitioner and teacher Robin Clayfield gives us her top ten tips for being part of a healthy and effective group! Being involved in a healthy, vibrant and effective group and playing a role…
Aboriginal Traditional Foods & an alternative Australian History
Words by Bruce Pascoe What would happen if we taught our children that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people planted crops, tilled them, irrigated them, stored and preserved surpluses, built houses and sewed their clothes? Would the sky fall in? And why would we teach them such things? Because thats what the explorers saw. Charles Sturt’s exploration party of…
5 Reasons to Teach Kids Permaculture
We're really excited about our new kids' section – Pip Kids' Patch – so excited in fact, that we have teamed up with our friends at Little Permies to present an open circle forum at the Sustainable Living Festival on the topic of “Learning Nature”. Come along and help us discuss the question “Why do...
International Permaculture Conference and Convergence, London
I’m back. And what an amazing time I had over at the International Permaculture Conference and Convergence in London. The most amazing part was to be together with so many like-minded people from all around the world. All up there were about 1500 people from 70 different countries that attended the two events. There was…
