The Best Permie Project award is open to projects which are current, create positive change and demonstrate the permaculture ethics of earth care, people care and fair share. The Permie Of The Year award is for a permaculture practitioner working to create positive change in the world. They need to demonstrate the permaculture ethics of earth care, people care and fair share in their work.
The project will be awarded $250, with the permie of the year receiving a Pip Award Pack (which includes garden tools, books and other useful items from the Pip Shop), valued at $250.
Include a brief description about what they’re doing
how they demonstrate these ethics and
why you think they should win.
Let people know
Please share this award widely within your permaculture networks – Pip magazine people can’t wait to hear about all the amazing, inspiring projects and people out there, doing their permie thing!
Pip, the Australian permaculture magazine is celebrating the release of its seventh issue this month and its increase in production from two to three issues. We felt that two issues wasn’t quite enough. After a few months, people were getting hungry for more. So as of 2017 we will be releasing three issues a year, March, July and November with issue seven hitting PA member letterboxes late Feb.
We’re really excited to have reached issue seven, from our humble beginnings with a Pozible crowdfunding campaign three years ago. We’re now in newsagents and retail outlets around Australia and New Zealand and shipping worldwide.
The latest issue is packed with articles on all things related to the chicken, including out beautiful chicken on the cover. We also have features on natural dyeing, growing garlic for year round supply, pickling, fermenting, electric cars and more. We also have a special tribute to Bill Mollison, the father of permaculture who passed away late last year.
We love having a diverse mix of perspectives on permaculture in practice in the mag. There’s no ‘one way’ to do permaculture, and it’s a growing movement with lots of exciting new ideas coming from different places. Our goal is to share these and connect the permaculture movement in Australia and beyond.
We’re passionate about bringing the Australian-grown permaculture movement to a wider audience locally, which is why we started the magazine. In 2017 we’re going from strength to strength with our increase in production and distribution and the launch of our podcast series.
About Pip Magazine:
Pip Magazine started as a crowd-funding venture in 2014, and in just three years has grown reaching more than 18,000 readers worldwide.
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Pip’s fifth issue – a special feature issue on Fair Food – will be launched with an incredible free event at the Sustainable Living Festival in Melbourne.
WHERE:Â SLF venue: ‘The Shed’, Birrung Mar WHEN: Saturday 13 February at 3pm
Join MC Nick Rose to discuss how we can create a fair food system for all with guests including Tammi Jonas and Guy Grossi.
Pip’s fifth edition feature articles written by:
David Holmgren
Nick Rose
Tammi Jonas
Bruce Pascoe
Albert Bates
Kirsten Bradley
and loads of other fabulous permies!
The fitth issue has a focus on how we can create a fair food system, as well as a host of other great articles on:
creating a double dig garden
bio char
how to build a cool room
indigenous plants that can replace imported varieties such as wheat and rice
simple to make greywater system
tiny house builder Rob Scott
national course provider directory
a new kids section with articles for and by little people
plus lots more great info, activities and DIYs.
10% off for PA members!
Pip is offering to Permaculture Australia members 10% off all their back issues, digital and print, and the back issues collection.
Have we got your correct address?
Permaculture Australia still offers the Pip magazine with your PA membership. If you’re a current member, to ensure that you receive Pip Issue #5, please log into the PA website and check that your postal address is correct under “MY PROFILE SUMMARY” and “edit my profile”. If your membership has lapsed, make sure you renew your membership today!
Would you like a digital copy of Pip?
If you are a current PA member and you do not need or want a Pip or don’t consent to your details being sent to Pip magazine, or you’d like a digital copy of Pip (instead of the paper copy) please email us immediately!
Please note that those Permaculture Australia members who live overseas will be receiving an email with a link to the Pip website to receive a digital copy of Pip Issue#5.
It’s the first new permaculture magazine in more than a decade. Pip — Australia’s new national permaculture magazine is due before the end of March.
“Since the demise of the Permaculture International Journal in 2000 we’ve had to rely on the web, local newsletters and carrier pigeons to share national news”, said Ian Lillington.
“Pip editor, Robyn Rosenfeldt, ran a successful crowdfunding appeal that raised revenue for the printing of Pip’s first edition. The permaculture community contributed generously to the beginnings of our new magazine”, said Ian.
Time to check your membership
Current Permaculture Australia members will receive this year’s two editions as part of their membership subscription, so please make sure your PA membership is up to date.
How to check your membership details
OPTION 1 – we can check
If you would like us to check your address just email us at
Login to the website via the login panel in the sidebar. If you have forgotten your password you can click on the button to reset your password.
2. Click on Edit My Profile
Once you are logged in, click on the  ‘Edit My Profile’ link. This will then take you to your profile page where you can check your postal address.
Click on the link ‘Edit My Profile’ to check your address
3. Edit your profile page
Once you open your ‘My Profile’ page, check your address and amend if needed to make sure that you receive a copy of Pip Australian Permaculture Magazine.
Update your address details if needed in your ‘My Profile’ page.
Wouldn’t it be great to have a magazine that covers all your interests in permaculture and sustainable living. And wouldn’t it be great if this magazine was beautifully designed with loads of colour photos and illustrations on 100% recycled paper.
A magazine where you can learn how to retrofit your home to make it more energy efficient, get great ideas that you can implement into your own productive food gardens, find recipes that are seasonal and use simple whole foods and read about other like-minded people who are doing inspiring things. And also find out about courses that are coming up, permaculture related businesses and relevant events.
It’s been over ten years since Australia had it’s own permaculture magazine and it has been hugely missed. Since then we have had to rely on overseas publications that in many ways aren’t relevant. We need our own magazine that is relevant to our climates, seasons, landscapes and culture.
As David Holmgren; the co-originator of permaculture says “The most powerful thing we can do to change the world is to create the world we do want rather than trying to stop the world we don’t want.” The aim of this magazine is to share stories, ideas and inspiration about how to create a world that can survive into the future; showcasing people and groups who are doing great things around the country and beyond to live more sustainably as well as offering practical advice about how to implement permaculture into your life.
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Pip magazine will be both informative and credible as well as stylish, attractive and easy to understand. In this way it is relevant and interesting to both long term permies as well as being accessible and inspiring to those that are new to permaculture or want to learn more about living in harmony with the planet.
There will be articles with practical information and tips on a variety of topics under the sections; grow, build, eat, create, nurture and connect.In the first issue there are articles by David Holmgren, Kirsten Bradley, Dan Harris Pascal and Ian Lillington to name a few. We’ll cover food forests, natural dyes, mushroom cultivation, herbal first aid, food security and local food to name a few.
Why Pip? Pip is the beginning and pip is the end. Some may see the pip as something you throw away but in permaculture we see it as the start of new life. It is the link between the end of one life cycle and the start of another.
Pip magazine will be published twice yearly to start with and will be available by subscription through the website www.pipmagazine.com.au and at some select outlets.
How the funds will be used
I have covered all costs so far from my own personal funds; design, production of website, promotional material, travel, etc.All money raised from this campaign will go directly towards the printing of the first edition of the magazine.
Any additional money raised will go towards the printing of the second edition.
Some of my other work
Prior to starting on this project I was the editor of Sustain magazine, a sustainable lifestyle magazine for south east NSW. For ten years prior to that I freelanced and worked on staff as a photographer and writer for many different publications both here and overseas.
After receiving such positive feedback to my work as editor of Sustain I realised I had found my calling. I absolutely love bringing together all the aspects that make a great magazine. The stories, ideas and images that create something inspiring and educational that thousands of people read and connect with. So when the idea was proposed to me that Australia needed its own permaculture magazine I jumped at the chance to make it a reality.
After completing a PDC several years ago I realised my part to play in the bigger picture was to use my skills as an editor, writer and photographer to start up and run a national Australian permaculture magazine.
Risk and challenges
Financial sustainability is always a challenge for a new business starting out but I am overcoming this by starting off small and simple, in true permaculture style. I am keeping my first print run small, keeping overheads low and crowdfunding for the first print run so that all profits from the this edition go directly into the printing of the next one. I am also volunteering my time until it reaches a point that the magazine can afford to pay me and other volunteer staff. We have volunteered our time to help get this project off the ground because we believe in it and want to see it come alive.
Pip’s fifth issue – a special feature issue on Fair Food – will be launched with an 
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