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4 Rewilding Our Diet – The Healthy Gut Microbiome Sid Hill explores how we can improve our health by immersing ourselves in nature and eating from a garden that provides a diversity of gut microbes.
8 Designing a New Garden Aranya shares how he used permaculture to find a new home and design its essential elements, from energy efficiency and solar power to garden design, plant selections and even a compost toilet.
14 A Self-Build Outdoor Classroom on the Cheap Vicki Cooke introduces a low-cost weatherproof outdoor classroom for visiting schools and the local community.
27 Top of the Crops Organic grower and YouTuber Vera Greutink reveals why winter squash is a ‘must grow’, and shows how to grow and cook a range of tasty and versatile varieties.
32 How to Build a Pollinator Wall Tayshan Hayden-Smith offers a compact design for attracting minibeasts into even the smallest garden.
34 Beyond Peat: Six Experts Share their Compost Tips Wade Muggleton and five other permaculture growers share how they ensure healthy soil and plants through homemade and peat-free alternatives.
39 Celebrating the Harvest and Reimagining the Yield Andrew Zionts Abrams, Joanna Crowson and Jorge Gallardo continue their fascinating series exploring the wider context of permaculture beyond the garden and into the expanded horizons of life and society.
53 Creating a Social Food Revolution Rebecca W. Morris reveals how Upper Ballaird Farm is bringing nutritious food back to the local community.
67 Learning from the Wisdom of Fungi Emily Antoniadi asks if fungal ecology and behaviours can help us to create more radical, nature-inspired human systems.
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