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INDULGING HER PASSION FOR PERMACULTURE, FIONA McWILLIAM'S NATURAL SWIMMING POND HAS DELIVERED MULTIPLE BENEFITS FOR BOTH HER FAMILY AND HER GARDEN'S BIODIVERSITY

Words and photography: FIONA McWILLIAM

Fiona McWilliam is a journalist, permaculturist and trainee permaculture teacher, living in Brighton. In 2020, she decided to indulge a lifelong dream by building a natural swimming pond in the garden of her detached 1930s suburban home, which proved to be an instant hit with aquatic wildlife and the whole family. Follow her on Instagram: @urbanpeasantry. The story so far I've always dreamt of having a swimming pool, after experiencing the bliss of having one as a child living in pre-revolutionary Iran, although having a pool in England seemed impractical and beyond our budget. We moved to our detached 1930s house in Brighton in 2005, a couple of months after the birth of our fifth and youngest child, Patrick. The relatively large garden (45m × 15m) was pretty much just grass and shrubs,…

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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, September 2023

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