Carescapes: Permaculture Design for Every Body
How to design life with the spoons, time, and energy you actually have.
A free Online Conversation & Workshop with Kirsten Bradley (Milkwood) & Anna Matilda (Everyday Permaculture), that happened on Monday 29th Sept
In this online workshop, we explored how permaculture design principles can help us design daily life – using your actual capacity, rather than some imagined version of yourself – and design daily rhythms that are more rooted in care, ease, and resilience…
We chatted about how you can honour your actual (rather than aspirational) capacity as a design parameter… just like the realities of soil, sunlight, or rainfall in a garden… and look at how to work with what we have… to cultivate more everyday goodness.
Thanks to everyone who could make it! The chat was FIRE. I’ve added all the helpful links (from us, and from the chat) to the Workshop notes here:
We discussed:
- How to notice and map your own energy rhythms.
- Simple micro-actions for saving spoons and supporting your future self.
- Ways to “catch and store energy”… from batch-cooking to naps to done-lists.
- Using permaculture zones to make daily tasks easier at home.
- How to value small wins, rest, and joy as real yields.
- Strategies for adapting gently with feedback from your body, household, and community.
Here’s the workshop replay:
Your Workshop Humans:
Kirsten Bradley
Milkwood – milkwood.net
Kirsten is a grower, writer, mother and fighter, gratefully living on melukerdee country. She co-founded Milkwood with Nick Ritar 18 years ago… to learn, teach and share skills for living like it matters – at a personal, household and community scale. Kirsten is the author of Milkwood (2018), a kids gardening book called Easy Peasy (2019) and The Milkwood Permaculture Living Handbook (2023).
Anna Matilda
Nanna Anna – theurbannanna.com
Firmly steeped in permaculture ethos, Anna Matilda (The Urban Nanna) showcases and teaches traditional skills, crafts and methods of sustainable living in the framework of the modern-day, unpredictable rental market. Her first book ‘Everyday Permaculture‘ is out now.
This series of live conversations is a part of our Fair Share program – making the conversations, skills and community we all need more accessible to everyone.
Thank you to all our community (students, readers, subscribers) for your support, we couldn’t do this without you
If you have any questions or thoughts on this workshop, please stick ’em in the comments below, we’d love to hear how it was for you?
Thank you for sharing! I tried to join in live but my connection was terrible so I eventually gave up. I’m very keen to watch the replay tonight 🙂
ah all good – hope you enjoy 🙂
This has been such a useful and hugely generous offering – it’s extraordinary to feel how much this kind of wisdom is so often behind a paywall and that you’ve not done that here. Thank you, what you’re doing is just wonderful and so helpful. I love the joyful care you really model, I’m sure there are days when it’s harder to do this, but this guidance you’re sharing is how to make it more possible to show up in our own way, however small or big, doesn’t it, thank you xx
yr so welcome, Emily 🙂
Thank you so much for sharing this!
I have been looking for this kind of information and discussion for so long. I’m looking forward to reading through the notes.
I would love to meet likeminded people in a similar situation in person. I’m located in Gadigal, Bidjigal, Eastern suburbs, Sydney if anyone would be interested in meeting up 🙂
thank you for coming, Lou!
I LOVED this conversation! It was so thought provoking and I will definitely watch the replay, without the distraction of the chat this time (although that too was stimulating). Thank you both for putting together such a wide-ranging discussion and following up with all the extra bits. Giving space to the concepts embedded in “permaculture is more than gardening” is to be congratulated. We seem to be surrounded by ever increasing complexity and it is so beneficial to be reminded that bringing our outlook back to those precious basic principles helps to hold space and draw deep supportive breaths. Thank… Read more »
Yay thank you so much for coming along 🙂
Wow, so much here! You’ve named a heap of things that I know or do but have never put it together in such a way. I’m going to have to go and have a walk in nature to process all of this. Thank you so much. Loved it
hooray and excellent 🙂
Thank you for sharing.
you are very welcome 🙂
Thank you for this beautiful offering, I really enjoyed listening and would love to see a follow up conversation if that feels right. It feels insurmountable sometimes to do all the things I want to do and feel that I should be doing! I have a demanding and sometimes completely exhausting job, and then I often spend my free time feeling guilty for not doing more gardening/fermenting/other permaculture activities even when I have no energy. This workshop and indeed the whole permaculture living course are helping me to reassess that and see where I can just start and do what… Read more »
thanks, Sarah 🙂 – so glad it was useful for you 🙂