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Happy New Year from all of us at The People’s Land Cooperative! I hope you had a good Christmas and you’re as excited for spring as we are. Winter is a rough season for any gardening business, and as an ethical worker’s cooperative we aren’t ashamed to ask for support.

In 2025 we hope to expand the range of community work that we do: this might look like supporting existing or new community allotments; setting up a compost collection service amongst local businesses; taking on a local young person as an apprentice; or even offering free gardening services to the elderly and vulnerable.

To do any of this however, we need to raise £1000 to buy an electric wheel for our cargo bike, as our van has packed it in. We are gratefully accepting donations through our website, but rather than just ask for money we wanted to give something back as well, so…

We have partnered with local artist Mike Sprout, who has designed us a stunning art poster which we are selling to raise the money to keep up our work. I highly recommend checking it out on our website – if only because it is so absolutely beautiful. It’s available framed or unframed in A3 and A2, and is a high quality giclée print, which apparently will last for 100 years!

Thank you so much. I hope 2025 is a fantastic year for you and yours, that your garden blooms, and your veggies thrive.

Al the best, Patrick The People’s Land Cooperative 🌱

Link to check out our posters: Peopleslandcoop.co.uk Follow us on Facebook and Instagram: @peoples.land.coop

I’ve known about permaculture for decades and read a couple of books on it, but I’m very much a beginner /novice – please be tolerant if i have got anything wrong.

I have a very small garden (yard) and there are loads of brilliant online and print resources for how to plan and maintain this according to permaculture principles (currently in a composting rabbithole, I am revamping our system of worm bin + cold composting to worm bin + hot composting…)

However, due to the realities of my home, my ‘zone 0’ – my house – is far bigger than my garden, and I think there is more scope for me to apply permaculture principles inside. It’s a big rambling old 1850s house with lots of twists and turns and a big cellar. However, I am struggling to find thoughtful resources on applying permaculture ideas to the home – they usually stop at, ‘grow some herbs and make sure you are energy efficient’. Or they focus on self build or designing a home from scratch.

Surely there are so many more ways permaculture principles could inform the way a house /home is organised and maintained, routines around cooking, cleaning, waste management…. there’s so much to say! Can anyone reccomend permaculture resources that focus on ‘zone 0’ and give it the same depth of thought as the outside?