Earth care, people care, fair share – and why being needy can be creative
Permaculture ethics
These are the principles of Permaculture that we covered on the first morning of our first day of our first ever integrated Permaculture Design Course (IPDC) at Treflach Farm.
Ceri, Steve and I have known each other for years. We know and understand each other’s work to some extent but have never collaborated … Read more
We all need the same things
Wasps have a bad rep in our house. I think it might have started when the boys were playing with a friend’s sons, in her garden and one of them poked a wasps nest with a stick. It didn’t end well. The wasps won.
The wasps didn’t help themselves when we went out to celebrate … Read more
Sunflowers and Gratitude
I work with Neil.
Sometimes we walk together and talk. He can be really serious. You should see his Facebook posts about Trump.
He is also hilarious, witty, creative and sharp. Hence the walks.
It is good to work with people who make you laugh and I am lucky that I work with funny people, … Read more
A new Permaculture Design Course (this is a longer than usual read so grab a cuppa)
Permaculture in the pandemic
It was the year of the pandemic. Living on the Wales and Shropshire border meant that our experience of that time was schizophrenic. When England was not wearing masks, Wales was. When England was free to travel, Wales was in lockdown. One village had the pubs in England opened while the … Read more
Life after retirement
This man, Robin Keen, is my old head teacher and my old employer. He is 93 or 97 depending on who I listened to and retired at, but my calculations, around 60.
I was down in Kent this week to give a talk on ‘Creating a life you don’t want to retire from’ at my … Read more
Fluid and flow
Writing
I’m starting to understand my pattern. I seem to have written a book once every 6 years and this year as seen Farmotherlands birthed. Writing feels like exhaling: lots of previous learning and experiencing and remembering; sending it out into the world. Now the book is born, I’m inhaling again, reading and listening to … Read more