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Moon planting – or using the phases of the moon to guide your monthly gardening activities – could help to maximise the potential of your harvests. 🌝

Pip Magazine - Sustainability and Permaculture | Nourish yourself and the planet with ideas and inspiration for a positive future, delivered to your door and on your devices | Pip Magazine - Sustainability and Permaculture

DIY Worm Tower | Pip Magazine – Sustainability & Permaculture

Do you always kill your worms? Then try worm farming with our easy DIY worm tower!

DIY Worm Tower | Pip Magazine – Sustainability & Permaculture Worm farming is easy when you do it with our super simple in-ground tower. Our easy video tutorial will show you how to make a DIY worm tower.

Herbal Teas To Grow At Home | Pip Magazine – Sustainability

Which of these 6 teas are your favourite?

Herbal Teas To Grow At Home | Pip Magazine – Sustainability Brewing a pot of tea with your own organically grown herbs is one of life’s simple pleasures. We bring you three herbal teas to grow at home.

Forget mowing and try planting on your nature strip - ABC Everyday

What does your nature strip look like?

Forget mowing and try planting on your nature strip - ABC Everyday Nature strip gardening can build community, filter pollution and create shade. But there are a few things to know before you start.

Ode to my apple tree… It is that magical time of year in our garden when we have an abundance of apples. Sweet, crisp, crunchy apples – nothing like those you buy in the supermarket. Once you have tasted homegrown or locally grown organic apples you will never think of apples in the same way again.

We have planted a variety of apples so the harvesting stretches out over the maximum number of months. Our favourite and most prolific apple tree though is a Jonathon apple tree that I bought as a sapling from the apple seller at our local market. I planted it while I was pregnant with my youngest child, who is now 11.

Each year I prune it, add compost, w**d under it and mulch it, but apart from that it doesn’t get much attention, yet each year it faithfully gives back. We had a couple of years where we lost the fruit to birds and fruit fly but the rest of the time it has supplied us well. I think this year is the best so far.

I think it is successful for a few reasons; I bought it from someone who was growing them locally, so it is suited to our climate. It is in a covered orchard that helps keep the birds out (although not all!). We have beehives nearby that pollinate it. We have naturally healthy soil which we add compost to each year. I prune it each year. I don’t use pesticides or herbicides or chemical fertilisers on the property, which helps maintain its fungal relationships.

Given that right now we are in the lovely state of apple abundance I thought I would point you in the direction of some of Pip’s best apple recipes for those of you are in a similar situation or are just enjoying the abundance of fresh apples from the shops.

Click here for our recipes for apple roly poly, apple upside down cake, apple scrap vinegar, apple & feijoa scrumble & spiced apricot & apple chutney: https://bit.ly/3F6bHje

[Image from the 2023 Pip Kitchen Garden Calendar: Jade Miles.]

Apple Upside Down Cake Recipe | Pip Magazine

This apple upside down cake recipe is the perfect winter pick-me-up treat.

Apple Upside Down Cake Recipe | Pip Magazine This apple upside down cake recipe is the perfect winter pick-me-up treat.

Why Healthy Soil Makes Healthy Humans | Pip Magazine

Are you improving your garden's soil health using these 6 methods? 🌱

Why Healthy Soil Makes Healthy Humans | Pip Magazine Just like our gut, the soil in our gardens needs a rich diversity of microbial life to be healthy.

We wanted to remind you all of our current giveaway which is ending soon. We're offering a FREE 2023 Pip Kitchen Garden Calendar with every subscription purchased while stocks last.

You will receive our gorgeous calendar with 12 months of seasonal recipes, stunning photos of gardens and produce, our moon planting guide and our pull out 'sow when' poster. All this will keep you on track to get more from your garden throughout the year.

We are running low on calendars so subscriber now, before they run out! Click here: https://grow.pipmagazine.com.au/shop/

Had a great day down at Jigamy Farm learning about syntropic food forestry and working on some of the ground work for an exciting new project with Twofold Aboriginal Corporation and Eat Dirt Permaculture. Stay tuned to find out more and how to get involved. Costa Georgiadis Official.

Got an abundance of rhubarb? Why not make this super quick, super easy Apple & Rhubarb Crumble? & it’s completely sugar-free to boot!

Ingredients:

* 3 rhubarb stalks
* 2 green apples
* 1 cup of rolled oats
* 1 cup of desiccated coconut
* 1 cup of crushed almonds
* 3 tbsp butter
* Cinnamon

Method:

Preheat oven to 180 degrees celsius.

Melt butter in saucepan. Add rhubarb & apple, cover & simmer on low for 10 minutes or so, until the rhubarb & apple soften and slightly liquify.

Meanwhile, combine rolled oats, desiccated coconut & almonds in a seperate bowl & set aside.

Tip rhubarb & apple into a shallow dish and evenly sprinkle oats mixture over the top. Sprinkle with cinnamon. Pop in the oven for 15-20 minutes.

(End result may not look that pretty but boy is it delicious! …so much so some got stolen before a photo could be taken! 🤭)

7 Cost-Effective Vegetables To Grow At Home | Pip Magazine

How many of these 7 cost-effective vegies are you growing?

7 Cost-Effective Vegetables To Grow At Home | Pip Magazine These seven cost-effective vegetables to grow in your garden will not only save you money, they’ll offer you year-round harvests from your own garden or balcony.

How to Make a Boomerang Bag | Pip Magazine - Sustainability and

Here’s our easy 8-step guide to making your own reusable boomerang bag 🧵

How to Make a Boomerang Bag | Pip Magazine - Sustainability and Want to save the planet? We show you how to kick your use of plastic bags to the curb and make your very own reusable boomerang bag.

Grow Your Own Food: Pip’s Free eBook | Pip Magazine

Our ‘Sow, Know, Grow’ eBook will teach you how to grow enough food to feed your family every night of the week 🥕🥦🍅🌽

Grow Your Own Food: Pip’s Free eBook | Pip Magazine Our ‘Sow, Know, Grow’ eBook will teach you how to grow enough food to feed your family every night of the week.

How To Make Plastic Free Moisturiser | Pip Magazine

Making your own natural plastic free moisturiser is a great way to reduce your waste and save money.

How To Make Plastic Free Moisturiser | Pip Magazine Making your own natural plastic free moisturiser is a great way to reduce your waste and save money to boot!

Quick Cucumber Pickles Recipe | Pip Permaculture Magazine

While these quick cucumber pickles don’t pack quite the nutritional punch as fermented pickles do, they’re just as delicious! 🥒

Quick Cucumber Pickles Recipe | Pip Permaculture Magazine While these quick cucumber pickles don't pack quite the nutritional punch as fermented pickles do, they're just as delicious!

5 Tips To Overcome The Overwhelm | Pip Magazine

Many of us are feeling the overwhelm lately… Here are 5 steps to keep it at bay.

5 Tips To Overcome The Overwhelm | Pip Magazine Discover how permaculture and business can align to grow your enterprise.

Last week, I had a chat with in an interview with and we were discussing the concept of “enoughness”.

If you have read the newest issue of Pip, and listened to our most recent podcast, you’ll know I interviewed about “enoughness” in home design when you’re renovating. We spoke about how sometimes the best thing to do is accept what you have, rather than feeling the pressure to create homes that have all these extra things that we don’t necessarily need, and which can then be a burden to us as we become more in debt to pay for them.

I also discussed the idea of enoughness when looking at ones self. That you are enough. So often, for so many of us, we are looking after our kids and we’re trying to work and trying to be part of our community and have our own gardens and grow our own food, but we always feel like we’re not doing enough and we’re struggling in those areas, and then we feel guilty.

Enoughness requires no extra energy, finances or action. It’s the art of accepting what we have as enough, or reassessing what we define as enough, and that on its own can do so much towards helping yourselves... and the planet.

Buckwheat Pancakes Recipe | Pip Magazine - Sustainability and

This gluten-free buckwheat pancakes recipe is low in sugar and gluten but high in taste. It’s perfect for kids as well as the whole family 🥞

Buckwheat Pancakes Recipe | Pip Magazine - Sustainability and Delicious gluten and refined sugar free buckwheat pancakes recipe from cook Brydie Piaf in our latest issue of Pip Magazine!

DIY Worm Tower | Pip Magazine – Sustainability & Permaculture

Do you always kill your worms? Then try worm farming with our easy DIY worm tower!

DIY Worm Tower | Pip Magazine – Sustainability & Permaculture Worm farming is easy when you do it with our super simple in-ground tower. Our easy video tutorial will show you how to make a DIY worm tower.

DIY Cutlery Keeper Tutorial | Pip Magazine - Sustainability and

This zero waste DIY cutlery keeper tutorial is easy to follow and provides a super handy tool in your arsenal in the war on plastic.

DIY Cutlery Keeper Tutorial | Pip Magazine - Sustainability and This zero waste DIY cutlery keeper tutorial is easy to follow. And it's a super handy tool to have in your arsenal in the war on plastic.

Banana Oat Bars Recipe | Pip Magazine - Sustainability and

Adopt healthier baking habits with this banana oat bars recipe – the perfect sugar- and plastic-free lunchbox treat 🍌

Banana Oat Bars Recipe | Pip Magazine - Sustainability and Yummy sugar- and plastic-free banana oat bars for kids' lunch boxes or your morning tea. An easy gluten free recipe you can whip up in minutes.

Spread the word… Pip is on the lookout for an enthusiastic, highly organised and computer savvy customer service and admin manager to complete our team. Come and join our small and dynamic team at Pip Media, where we care for the planet and create content that inspires others to do the same.

With a keen eye for detail, the successful applicant will be responsible for managing our subscription management system, maintaining our high level of customer service, providing sales support and performing admin duties. We are looking for someone with a high level of computer literacy. Training in specific programs can be provided.

Find out more about the role here: https://pipmagazine.com.au/jobs-pip/ and tag someone you know in the comments below who would ace this role!

Moon Planting Guide: Gardening by the Phases of the Moon

Moon planting – or using the phases of the moon to guide your monthly gardening activities – could help to maximise the potential of your harvests 🌕

Moon Planting Guide: Gardening by the Phases of the Moon Moon planting – or using the phases of the moon to guide your monthly gardening activities – can help to maximise the potential of your harvests.

Coloured Chicken Eggs: Breeds That Lay Outside The Spectrum | Pip Magazine

From the snow white eggs from a Leghorn to the deep browns of the Marans, find out which chicken breed produces which coloured eggs.

Coloured Chicken Eggs: Breeds That Lay Outside The Spectrum | Pip Magazine From the snow white eggs from a Leghorn to the deep browns of the Marans, find out which chicken breed produces which coloured eggs.

Hey Melbournians. Pop this one in your diary and get along to this awesome sharing of local food, good company and inspiring and knowledgeable speakers.

Pack your picnic rug, basket and delicious home made goodies and head to the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria for a huge afternoon celebrating sustainability in the heart of the city. Costa will be there along with Helena Norberg-Hodge, Sandro Demaio, Alice Zaslavsky, Tim Entwistle Nina Gbor Sustainability Pathways with Kirsty Bishop-Fox David Holmgren and many more for a big green day out. Come along and show off your homegrown harvests, locally sourced spread and community connections. There will be a program of breakout activities and children's fun on the day. Register via: http://www.slf.org.au/event/the-great-local-picnic/
SUN 26 FEB | 12PM-4.30PM | BOTANIC GARDENS | FREE EVENT

Designing An Urban Oasis

We revisit this urban oasis in Melbourne’s inner north from Issue #6 of Pip, which belongs to Megan Norgate of sustainable interior design practice Brave new eco.

Designing An Urban Oasis Eight years ago we bought a dilapidated 1940s Californian bungalow in Melbourne’s inner northern suburbs. It was in a semi-derelict state, had a heritage overlay and flood level restrictions, and w

Gbejniet Recipe: Traditional Maltese Cheese | Pip Magazine

Gbejniet is the traditional sheep’s milk cheese of Malta. We show you how easy it is to make your own Maltese cheese.

Gbejniet Recipe: Traditional Maltese Cheese | Pip Magazine Try our easy gbejniet recipe – a traditional sheep's milk cheese from Malta. Lily Angel Micallef share's her grandmother's recipe.

Pip Podcast #40: Jane Hilliard | Pip Magazine

🎧 It's Pip Podcast time! This week we speak to Tasmanian building designer, Jane Hilliard, who is is on a mission to claw back the overconsumption rampant in the building industry.

Swimming against the metaphorical tide that promotes ever-expanding McMansion-style developments, Jane champions the concept of ‘enoughness’ in her professional life and in her everyday life, too.

In Jane’s own words, enoughness is about “working out what you need to be happy and healthy, without taking more than your fair share.” And when our homes are created with this in mind, the positive impacts radiate.

Pip Podcast #40: Jane Hilliard | Pip Magazine As overconsumption continues to drive the climate crisis, one Tasmanian building designer Jane Hilliard is quietly trumpeting the idea that less is actually more.

DIY Toothpaste Recipe | Pip Magazine - Sustainability and Permaculture

With a few basic ingredients, you can make your own beauty products that are plastic free and completely natural.

DIY Toothpaste Recipe | Pip Magazine - Sustainability and Permaculture Learn to make your own with our simple, tasty DIY toothpaste recipe. Keep your pearly whites (and our oceans) clean and free of plastic!

The Healing Power Of Apple Cider Vinegar

Raw apple cider vinegar can be expensive to buy, but making your own is simple and very cheap 🍎

The Healing Power Of Apple Cider Vinegar Loaded with enzymes and probiotics, raw apple cider vinegar (ACV) is an essential item on your cooking and medicine shelves. Raw ACV can be expensive to buy, but making your own is simple and very

Be sure to check out ’s excellent podcast series with – Sense-making in a Changing World, Permaculture Writer’s Club Special Series. Morag speaks with a range of authors and publishers and explores different forms of permaculture writing.

In the latest episode, our founding editor Robyn takes Morag and listeners behind the scenes of Pip. Learn what makes a good article or story, what magazine editors are looking for and ways to approach Pip with your story.

🎧 Listen here: https://apple.co/3RGygji

Pip Podcast # 14: Keeping a House Cow | Pip Magazine - Sustainability

In this revisited Pip Podcast, we chat with homesteader, fermentation expert and cow lover, Emily Stokes 🎧

Pip Podcast # 14: Keeping a House Cow | Pip Magazine - Sustainability It's time for the fourteenth Pip Permaculture Podcast on the topic of keeping your own house cow with Pip editor Robyn Rosenfeldt and Emily Stokes.

5 Easy Cheese Recipes | Pip Magazine - Sustainability and Permaculture

If you like cheese, then here’s some good news: making it from scratch is really fun and easy!🧀

5 Easy Cheese Recipes | Pip Magazine - Sustainability and Permaculture Making cheese from scratch is really fun and easy. Here are our top 5 easy cheese recipes from around the permaculture traps!

How To Make a DIY Wicking Bed: Video | Pip Magazine

Save time and reduce your water usage with an easy-to-build DIY wicking bed – a self-watering raised garden bed perfect for growing vegies 🌱

How To Make a DIY Wicking Bed: Video | Pip Magazine Save time and reduce your water usage with an easy-to-build DIY wicking bed – a self-watering raised garden bed perfect for growing vegies.

Reduce Plastic Use With This Mind Map | Pip Magazine

This easy-to-follow mind map will help you reduce plastic use and adopt a zero waste lifestyle.

Reduce Plastic Use With This Mind Map | Pip Magazine This easy-to-follow mind map will help you reduce plastic use and adopt a zero waste lifestyle.

How To Make Hot Compost: Video | Pip Magazine

Growing great vegies all comes down to the health of your soil, and you can’t have healthy soil without compost. Here we show you how to make compost quickly… aka hot compost!

How To Make Hot Compost: Video | Pip Magazine Growing great vegies all comes down to the health of your soil, and you can’t have healthy soil without compost. Here we show you how to make compost quickly… aka hot compost!