Robyn Rosenfeldt, founding publisher and editor
Where do you live, and on what sort of property?
I live in Pambula on a two and a half acre property on the edge of town. I live here with my partner, my three beautiful children, and at last count three sheep, four chickens a rooster and five ducks.
How did you get into permaculture?
I got into permaculture through a love of gardening and growing my own food but soon realised permaculture was so much more than gardening. After completing my PDC (permaculture design certificate) I realised it was my mission to combine my passion for permaculture with my love of publishing, photography and writing and create Pip Magazine.
What do you do for Pip?
I started Pip. Pip is my baby and I am the publisher, editor, art director, photographer, writer, book keeper and tea lady.
What’s next in your permaculture journey?
My property is a work in progress. Between creating a magazine and looking after my family I spend time growing food and creating a beautiful space to live in. To keep me sane among all my commitments I surf and do yoga.
Kel Buckley, managing editor
Where do you live, and on what sort of property?
I live on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula with my partner and two kids. We share our quarter-acre block with two dogs, half a dozen chickens and about 50,000 bees.
How did you get into permaculture?
As food growers, seed savers, bee keepers and strivers of sustainability, permaculture got into us as we looked for ways to further reduce our impact on the earth and our reliance on consumerism.
What do you do for Pip?
As Pip’s managing editor, I oversee the production of this terrific title, ensuring an inspiring, informative and accurate magazine is delivered to the printer on time and to style each quarter.
What’s next in your permaculture journey?
The global pandemic quashed our plans to complete a PDC this year, so that’s first on the list. From there we’ll work towards designing our forever property where we aspire to regenerate, educate and implement ways to tread even more lightly on our planet.
Emma Gibbs, partnerships manager
Where do you live, and on what sort of property?
I live in an inner suburb of Brisbane with my husband and our two sons (5 and 2 years old). My eldest son would also count the worms from our worm farm as his “pets”!
How did you get into permaculture?
I stumbled upon Pip and the world of permaculture via way of the zero waste movement. A few years ago my husband and I started living a sustainable lifestyle, dramatically reducing the amount of household waste we produce and avoiding plastic wherever possible.
This led to growing some of our own food, composting, installing solar, and striving to reduce our family’s overall carbon footprint.
What do you do for Pip?
I’m responsible for managing Pip’s partnerships, online content, social media channels, newsletter, content marketing and PR.
What’s next in your permaculture journey?
I’d love to complete a permaculture design certificate as we are planning on moving to acreage sometime in the future and I’d love to put these skills to use on our own property. Getting some chickens is also on the wish list, among many other things!
Gabrielle Oldaker, marketing strategy
Where do you live, and on what sort of property?
I live in a an inner city townhouse in the North of Melbourne with my little girl, partner and our fluffy Norwegian forest cat Soski.
How did you get into permaculture?
Through Pip Magazine! Well, more specifically Robyn the founder of this little beauty. She talked to me about setting up a permaculture magazine for some time before she launched and her interest sparked mine and I have consumed to learn through all the amazing content created.
What do you do for Pip?
I oversee Marketing and Partnerships for Pip Media. My role is to help more people to get in front of our content and grow the opportunities to work with such an amazing community of environmentally minded people.
What’s next in your permaculture journey?
We’re still newbies on the permaculture journey with so much to learn. Our next adventure is building small space planter boxes in our limited garden including worm towers and growing more of our own plants at home.
Cindy Minahan, customer service and admin
Where do you live, and on what sort of property?
I live on a rural property half an hour inland of the southern NSW coast. My partner and I self-built an off-grid, two-storey shipping container house, with as many upcycled and second-hand materials as possible. I like to live with a very small footprint on the earth and try to tip the balance towards helping other species thrive.
How did you get into permaculture?
I think I practiced permaculture even before I learnt about it: growing organically; finding inputs that performed more than one function; and trying to care for people, the planet and reduce waste. An organic garden is my happy place and I get a lot of satisfaction out of thinking, designing and making things “outside-the-square”.
When travelling in northern India, I often saw signs in the middle of nowhere; “there is not room for anyone’s greed but there is room for everyone’s need”. That has always stuck with me.
What do you do for Pip?
Administration, business support and customer service at Pip HQ. If you’re a subscriber, a stockist, or a supplier, we will probably cross paths!
What’s next in your permaculture journey?
Continuing to rebuild vegie gardens and orchards that were lost in bushfires, building our own beehives (for native and European bees) and planting out hundreds of natives trees and shrubs that I have propagated to replace habitat and food sources.
My big sustainable living bug-bear is soft plastics. It will be a joyous day when there is a workable nationwide soft plastics recycling program in Australia and I want to contribute to that cause.
