When did it happen that time became a forward line? When did the idea of an inevitability of progress settle in the psyche of the western mind? When did we as human beings set ourselves apart, thinking that we are at the head of the parade? And how does all of that affect our relationship to place and planet? These are questions I have been asking myself for a while, questions I might never have the answers to.

In a time that often seems dominated by conflict, economic deprivation and environmental destruction, Permaculture points into a different direction and offers opportunity.

This summer we are running a Permaculture inspired 24-hour Designing Edible Landscapes training course at Spires in Streatham. The course is funded by Lambeth and supported by Incredible Edible Lambeth and therefore free to attend for anyone who can make it.

The May Newsletter is out with upcoming gardening sessions, volunteer opportunities, blogposts and stories, pictures and more... Find it here.

Small and slow solutions is one of my favourite Permaculture principles. Not only does it relate to the type of interventions that a designer makes on a piece of land, it describes a helpful attitude to life.

First time novelist, Sarah Kisielowski, joined the Introduction to Permaculture weekend to find out how its principles might apply to creativity and writing.

Permaculture is an intuitive framework for change that reconnects us to each other, the natural world, and ourselves.

This was the opening definition...

There is a short profile and some additional Q&A by Social Landscapes founder Michel Thill in this quarter's Green Spirit Magazine.

Today, we sent out our first newsletter of 2017, including updates on the Permaculture Design Course, links to the Permaculture Association blog post, Mich's latest post exploring a permaculture principles, opportunities to collaborate and volunteer and more..

This week, the UK Permaculture Association published a short version of our 5 stories of Permaculture Design Course participants on their blog.

Find the full post here.

This is the first of a series of short blog posts exploring the core permaculture principles and relating them to our work at Social Landscapes. 

Lately, in my work as well as on Permaculture courses, I have been exploring the topic of livelihood. Livelihood is often described as “that which sustains us” and for us in the west, more often, “that which brings in an income”.

“Permaculture is thinking like an ecosystem”

On the second day of the 2016 Permaculture Design Course the concept above was mentioned, from that moment on Andrea, also known as Dre, began to question the impact of why and how we approach things. Ecosystems rely on dependency, much like the human ecosystem we all live in.

The December Newsletter went out this morning. You can find it here with numbers, testimonials and stories from 2017, upcoming permaculture and growing workshops and more...

"I hope to make the world a better place by fostering resilience in communities."

Robert’s passion for permaculture runs deep, beginning at school twenty years ago, when his Geography teacher taught his class the fundamental principles. Robert went on to study Environmental Sciences at University and is now a member of...

This week I delivered the last of three gardening sessions at Bandstand Beds on Clapham Common. The session was on Soil and Compost, a topic I am particularly passionate about. With this post I’d like to share some tips and tricks for your own compost experiments at home. 

The second of the three workshops at Bandstand Beds was on the topic of growing winter veg. Sarah Wilson, one of the participants, wrote a blog post together with David Dandridge.

The team at the community garden Bandstand Beds on Clapham Common have used some of their funding to organise a series of three winter workshops on their site. Michel Thill from Social Landscapes was invited to deliver the sessions. In the first workshop the group has explored strategies for natural pest control.

“I feel like I know a secret and want to share it with the world!”

This time, I find myself sitting in a café near Old Street, chatting to the outgoing Natasha. Deciding that spending the majority of your waking hours in a job that doesn’t bring you much satisfaction, in August 2015 Natasha...

For those of you who prefer Italian, the previous blog post "5 reasons permaculture has become a global movement" was translated into Italian for the Magazine Permacultura & Transizione. See the whole article here.

Our October Newsletter includes upcoming gardening workshops, a community planting event, the full permaculture design course, blog posts and pictures from our last introduction to permaculture workshop. Read the newsletter here.

My second interview was with Permaculture Design Course (PDC) participant Nicky, 26, who works with children with special needs. He is currently developing his practice as a yoga teacher and artist and he chose to do the permaculture design course hoping to ...