Pip Magazine

Pip Magazine provides simple, positive, practical solutions to living a more sustainable life. With articles on growing your own food, natural building,wholefoods, keeping bees, backyard chooks, fermenting, design, natural parenting and much more. Pip has profiles on people, projects, gardens, farms, houses and businesses. There are ‘how to’ guides, recipes, reviews, a directory and a kid’s section.

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO NURTURED PIP ON ITS NEXT STAGE OF GROWTH. THIS ONE’S FOR YOU.

CONTRIBUTORS

Pip Permaculture Magazine

EDITORIAL

MAUDE FARRUGIA

PIP NOTICEBOARD

PIP PICKS THINGS WE LIKE

INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS

5 BUGS FOR BIOCONTROL

BRAINS TRUST

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

CONNECTING TO COUNTRY

AMARANTH • Amaranth is a common and highly nutritious weed easily recognised by its beautiful but rather peculiar nodding seed heads.

Lost and found

FLYING FOX

ROCKMELON

FEBRUARY-MAY • Seasonal garden guides for Australian climates

COOL TEMPERATE

WARM TEMPERATE

MEDITERRANEAN

ARID

SUBTROPICAL

TROPICAL

SUBSCRIBE & WIN! • Excalibur five-tray dehydrator valued at $579 up for grabs!

Crop rotation KEEP IT MOVING

Givers and takers • COMMON EXAMPLES OF WHICH VEGETABLE FALLS UNDER WHICH FEEDING OR GIVING CATEGORY.

Working families • EACH PLANT FAMILY IS ROTATED AS A SINGLE GROUP, AND THERE ARE UP TO SIX GROUPS WHICH CAN BE ROTATED WITH THIS SYSTEM.

Regenerative agriculture ON HOME SOIL

Bringing it home • HOW TO ADOPT REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE PRACTICES IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD

Dehydrating fruit CUT AND DRIED

Salted plums

Eating organically THE GREEN STANDARD

The where-you-can approach

Rental retrofits LEASE ON LIFE

Straw bale garden • HERE’S AN INEXPENSIVE GARDEN BED SYSTEM THAT CAN BE COMPOSTED OR USED AS MULCH WHEN IT’S TIME TO MOVE ON.

Ethical investment BANKING ON THE FUTURE

The real value

Where to start

Sleep hygiene REST ASSURED

Herbal helpers

Connecting communities ONCE AND FOR ALL

Fair share

Pandemic positives SILVER LININGS

Follow the leaders

Easy peasy LEMON SQUEEZY

On the side KIMCHI

Good oils HOMEMADE SOAP

Basic cold-process soap

KIDS’ PATCH

SHOW US YOUR GARDEN • Katherine, Northern Territory

MAKE YOUR OWN LIZARD LOUNGE • Lizards, skinks and geckos are garden guardians who eat slugs, snails and other insects that enjoy munching on your garden. Sadly, lizards’ homes are disappearing, but you can help!

FUN PAGES

READ & WATCH • The books and films inspiring you to make a difference

MOVIE

FAIR TRADERS • Pip partners with brands who align with its values of earth care, people care and fair share. Ethical companies producing goodquality products that don’t harm the planet, instead aiming to improve it.

PERMACULTURE ETHICS, PRINCIPLES & ACTIONS