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:
And if you’re new to bringing permaculture home, our free guide to getting started with permaculture living has seven climate-positive actions you can begin with this week.
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.
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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?
