Pip Magazine Issue 19

ADAM GEORGE, ADDIKA GALEA, AIMEE BOUND, AIMEE TANG, AIRLIE BEE, AKEAN CLARKSON, ALAN CRABBE, ALEX WOODGER, ALEXANDRA POWER, ALEXIS DEVINE, ALICIA PARK, ALISHA NEE, ALISON DENYER, ALISON WORTHINGTON, ALLISON BELL, AMANDA BEAR, AMANDA REGAN, AMANDA VERNON, AMIE ALLFORD, AMY ADAMS, ANDRE PENDERS, ANDREA MANIER, ANDREW TREASURE, ANDREW WALTHO, ANGUS DOWNING, ANITA HARRISON, ANJA WILLIAMS, ANN DRUM, ANN ROBERTS, ANN SKIRVING, ANNA FEATHERSTONE, ANNA FLITTNER, ANNA RITCHIE, ANNA WARDLE, ANNABEL KENNY, ANNE JAUMEES, ANNE-MAREE ELLIOTT, ANNE-MARIE DONALDSON, ANNI CHAMBERS, ANNIE FRANKLIN, ANNINA RUEGGER, ANNSO HURLUBERLUE, ARTIST AS FAMILY, ASHLEIGH BARNES, ASHLEIGH BURNS, BARBARA NUDD, BARBARA PIERCE, BEAU BEAUMONT, BEC MCGUIRE, BEC SHANN, BELINDA CARPENTER, BELINDA DRAPER, BELINDA GEISSLER, BELINDA ROSENBAUM, BELLA ST CLAIR, BERNADINE, BETH BUSBY, BETTE MCFARLANE, BETTY JACOBS, BEVERLY WALDIE, BONNIE STEELE, BONNIE UPPILL, BREE MASON, BRENNA QUINLAN, BRETT…

NICOLE LUTZE Nicole is a freelance writer and communications consultant with a passion for stories about sustainable living and social justice. She lives on the land of the Gubbi Gubbi people on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast with her two daughters, husband and their pet dog. Nicole’s vegetable garden is packed with perennials and edible natives that survive both her neglect and the lack of sunshine on their leafy half-acre property. Nicole also blogs about simple family living at www.thissimpleday.wordpress.com ANGELA EUNJAE CHUNG Eunjae is an interior designer, cook, food blogger, mum, environmentalist and smallbusiness owner. Born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, Eunjae followed her parents to Auckland in New Zealand after finishing university. Eunjae relocated to Melbourne in 2008 where she has spent the last decade cooking, running Korean cooking classes, food blogging…

“We can develop a greater connection with our country and be more in touch with where we live” Hellooo 2021! Here’s to a year of positive change and hope. Over the last 12 months, we have noticed a huge increase in interest in ways to live more sustainably, self-sufficiently and with greater self-reliance. Pip’s aim is to provide lots of easily-accessible content for anyone, no matter where they are on this journey, and we have kept it up throughout 2020 despite all the challenges thrown at us. For Pip, 2021 represents the next step in our growth. We are now producing four issues a year (thanks to everyone who supported our crowdfunding project), improving our digital platform for better accessibility and we are growing our team. Pip magazine now comes under the banner…

Maude is an illustrator, writer and baker living on Wurundjeri land on top of a big hill in Melbourne’s north. Her illustrations and designs have featured on ethically made textiles, stationery and other treasures. Regular readers will know Maude is a dyed-in-thewool permie, who has blogged, written and illustrated for Pip since 2015. This issue (Silver Linings, page 72) you’ll discover Maude has most recently turned her hand to baking, using last year’s lockdown period to realise her dream of launching a microbakery in a small room at the rear of the bustling home she shares with her partner, two kids, chooks, quails and bees.…

SEED MOB LAUNCHES Seed Mob is set to become Australia’s first Indigenous youth-led environmental organisation. With a vision of a just and sustainable future powered by renewable energy, this national grassroots network of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people have set out to protect country, culture and communities from the impacts of climate change. Support the creation of Seed Mob by donating, joining or becoming a partner. More info can be found at www.seedmob.org.au. GUESS WHAT?! There’s more bacteria in one teaspoon of lacto-fermented kimchi than there are people on earth. One serve of lacto-fermented kimchi or sauerkraut has more probiotics than a full bottle of commercially-available probiotic pills. See our recipes for traditional (or whatever’s in your garden) kimchi starting on page 82 GIVING BACK Pip Media recently donated $2500 to Permaculture Australia’s Permafund…

Etiko ORGANIC SNEAKERS Ecological footprints don’t get much lighter than those made by Etiko shoes. As well as using organic cotton, natural latex rubber soles, non-toxic dyes and zero animal glues, the box they come in is made from post-consumer waste. Handstitched by Faitrade employees, these Olive Hitops are 100-percent vegan and are just one option of a large range of mens, womens and kids footwear. $110 www.etiko.com.au Bend CUSTOM YOGA MAT The custom yoga mat from Australian yoga studio Bend is made from 100-percent natural rubber and cork. Free from silicones, phthalates or hormonedisrupting chemicals found in common plastic yoga mats, the cork mats are biodegradable and feature purposefully placed markings to guide your posture during yoga sequences. Measuring 183 cm in length, 61 cm wide and 4 mm in thickness, the custom yoga mat weighs…