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2 COMPETITIONS & MANY READERS OFFERS permaculture F R E E G r e e n S h o p p i n C a t a l o g g u e 2 0 U K s u 11 b s c r i b s e l e c e r s & t s t o r e s o n l y PLUS Build Your Own FEEL-GOOD Natural Swimming Pool IDEAS TO HELP YOU and a THROUGH THE WINTER INCLUDING: GreenhouseSelf-Watering How To Boost we show you how! Your Immune System Growing Winter Vegetables Recipes for Outdoor Choosing an Energy Efficient Cooking in Winter Woodburning Stove No.66 Winter 2010 £3.95 UK / $7.99 US / $8.99 CAN tt ll ee nn PERMACULTURE MAGAZINE tt yy ee ss mm ee nn ii ff oo LL ii rr Feeding Your Dog :: vv nn rr yy EE oo rr gg oo ee // tt dd aa nn As Nature Intended CC aa INFORMATIVE ARTICLES NEWS COURSES CLASSIFIEDS BOOK, DVD, TOOL & PRODUCT REVIEWS E D B Y R T E H W p m E O S . P U .. N c u l tu re i s e r m a g P o r c re a ti n a m e wo rk f e th o d Contents o v a ti v e f r p ra c ti c a l m a n i n n f l v i i n g; a , bl e wa ys o a r m o n i o u s FEATURES su s ta i n a c a l l y h n g e c o l o gi th a t c a n r d e v e l o p i e s ys te m s 33 WINTER IMMUNE BOOSTERS FROM KITCHEN & GARDEN e f f o f i c i e n t a n d p ro d u n yc twi v h e re . Julie Bruton-Seal and Matthew Seal explore y a n yo n e , a the useful remedies to be found close at hand. be u se d b 77 DIY NATURAL SWIMMING POOL David Butler recounts the experience of creating his own. 1212 OUTDOOR COOKING IN WINTER! Trish MacCurrach extols the virtues of cooking alfresco, even in the depths of winter. n n 2020 EDUCATION FOR A HANDMADE FUTURE e e r r e e G G Maddy Harland explores the stunning new i i m m T T & & Woodland Classroom built by Ben Law. g g i i n n k k s s o o H H a a c c c c e e b b 2323 A WOLF IN DOG’S CLOTHING e e R R Rebecca Hosking and Tim Green, makers of © © the highly respected ‘A Farm For The Future’ 23 film, turn their attention to the health of our REGULARS domesticated dog population. 1616 Solutions! 2929 CHOOSING A WOODBURNING STOVE 1717 Product Reviews Maddy Harland explains the benefits of a woodburning stove and the process she went 3737 Permaculture News through to choose the stove of her dreams. 6363 GGENEN News 3434 SACRED FORESTRY 6565 Letters Reforestation of the sacred mountain of 6969 Reviews Arunachala, in South India, has been resoundingly successful. John Barrie Button explains his 7272 Courses r r e e t t l l permacultural approach to the challenge. u u 7777 Classified Exchange B B i i d d v v a a D D 4343 GROWING VEG THE INCAN WAWAYY 8080 Subscriptions & Renewals © © Steve James adapts an ancient farming 7 method to create a self-watering greenhouse. 4747 HOW TO GROW FOOD IN WINTER Janet Renouf-Miller explains how you can create a harvest of fresh, nutritious food throughout the cold months. 5252 THE SITTING ROOM SESSIONS Brian Boothby sings the benefits of taking live music back home. 5555 GROWING TOGETHER Louise Cartwright describes a way of growing food on a large scale, as a community. 6060 DESERT TO OASIS Karen Olsen tells the story of living permaculture legend, Scott Pittman. 52 www.www.permaculturepermaculture.co.uk No. 66 PermacultuPermaculturere Magazine 11 Welcome PUBLISHER PERMANENT PUBLICATIONS to Permaculture Magazine Hyden House Limited The Sustainability Centre, East Meon Hampshire GU32 1HR, England 6 6 Tel: +44 (0)1730 823 311 4 4 i i o o d d t t u u Email: info@[email protected] S S Web: www.permaculture.co.uk EDITOR Winte Winterr is coming in the northern hemisphere and we have been preparing for the Maddy Harland short days and the cold. The summer and autumn glut of vegetables is over andand FOUNDING EDITOR any we could store are safely racked in a cool room. Cold frames have been moved Tim Harland from the melon crop and now shelter the salads until a hard snap wipes them out. GRAPHIC DESIGNER The meadows are cut, fruit trees and bushes are mulched with the cut and new bulbs John Adams have been planted. The greenhouse has been resown with crops that will hopefully fill the hungry gap next year. The raised beds are sown with next year’s garlic and ADVERTISING, MARKETING & MEDIA Tony Rollinson broad beans. The woodstore is full. It’s been hard work cutting, splitting and stacking the seasoned wood but there is nothing more satisfying than sitting by a warm stove ONLINE EDITOR Mark Anslow and passing the dark evenings together, preferably sharing stories by candlelight. The publishing cycle turns as well and we pause and review the year. This one SUBSCRIPTIONS Hayley Harland has been busier than any before. Not only have we ppublishedublished four issues of PM,, we have also produced two new films. One presented by Ben Law and filmed by ACCOUNTS Carolyn Pennington Undercurrents, Roundwood Timber Framing , introducing and explaining this newnew,, low impact architectural vernacular ( see p.22 and 70). It is abundantly practical ADMINISTRATION ASSISTANT Sam Blanchette and inspirational, taking building back into the local community and we hope it will encourage people to make their own beautiful structures from local materials. CONSULTANT EDITORS Patrick WhWhitefield,itefield, Chris Marsh, Michael Guerra, The other film is by David Butler and is a step by step guide to making your own Andy Goldring, Hildur & Ross Jackson, natural swimming pools ( see p.7). It shows every detail of construction for larger Max Lindegger, Dieter Duhm, Vandana Shiva, scale pond making and gives the know-how to create healthy aquacultures, so clean Helena Norberg-Hodge, Jonathan Dawson you can swim in them yourself. SPECIAL THANKS This year, we have also produced Ben’s latest book by the same title as the DVD, Pete & Emma Cooper, Pete Ellington, Rebecca Hosking, Tim Green, Martin Crawford, Roundwood Timber Framing , plus Simon Fairlie’s controversial and scholarly text, Georgina Norfolk, Patrick Harland Meat. This urges everyone to eat far less of the stuff and, if you do, farm or buy it in UK & WORLDWIDE DISTRIBUTOR as low an impact and responsible way as possible. I have to admit it has been good COMAG to see this – essentially a permaculture book – beibeingng talked aboutabout in all the UK Tavistock Road, West Drayton, Middlesex UB7 7QE Tel: 01895 433 600 broadsheets, plus the New YYorkork TTimesimes and Time Magazine. I have no doubt that the debate will run on and on. Three more books will also be in print by the end of the US & CANADIAN DISTRIBUTOR year, Gaian Economics, David Holmgren’s Permaculture – Principles and PPathwaysathways Disticor Magazine Distribution www.disticor.com and Sepp Holzer’s P Permacultermaculture,ure, an extraordinary exploration of his way of farming. This autumn, we were joined by Mark Anslow, former editor of The Ecologist,, COVER PHOTO © David Butler who is working with us to relaunch PM online this winter. This will allow us to publish weekly permaculture news, reviews, articles and designs – all at www.permaculture Printed on Lumi Core Silk .co.uk. WWee will also gather our blogs and our film media under one roof and offer FSC Certified mixed credit material Printed by Warners Midlands plc, you new blogs from prominent permaculturists. Our aim is to create the best possible FSC certification number permaculture information service, both for newcomers and for seasoned practi- TT-COC- 002452 tioners. Behind the scenes, we have completely relaunched Green Shopping online COPYRIGHT (www(www.green-shopping.co.uk).green-shopping.co.uk) to provide you with a securesecure,, efficient and useful © All writings are the copyright of Permanent Publications and/or individual contributors. All rights reservedreserved.. service for books, tools and products that we persopersonallynally recommend and use. No part, written or visual, of this magazine may be PM reproduced, except for short credited and sourced 2010 has been a year of intense activity for all the team. We have watched passages for criticism or review, without written the world slide more deeply into recession and many people and organisations permission of the publisher. experience financial difficulties. 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