Maddy Harland

It’s a big Summer for permaculture and like minded events too, which the PM team will be attending with our legendary bookstall – with plenty of award-winning books and bestsellers. Groundswell, The Regenerative Agriculture Festival, 2-3rd July 2025 at Lannock Farm, Hertfordshire, UK. A forum for farmers, growers, or anyone interested in food production and the environment to learn about theory and practical applications. The PM team will be there.

When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order. Ilya Prigogine, Physical Chemist and Nobel Laureate Welcome back. The late genius Douglas Adams wrote his Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy trilogy in five parts.

As the era of peat-based garden compost draws to a close should we perhaps look more widely at the whole issue of compost? On the face of it, compost is an innocuous material that we all take for granted and many of us who ‘grow our own’ no doubt get through a fair few bags of it every year. It symbolises something wholesome and embraces the hands in the soil element of gardening.