It’s Mara Ripani of Village Dreaming and Orto cooking school, a force of and for nature with a passion for greening cities, growing food, permaculture, preserving food, baking bread and sowing seeds.

Brenna Quinlan’s illustration of cool cupboard design, sourced from David Holmgren’s RetroSuburbia. A cool cupboard is a passive cooling storage solution — a ventilated cabinet positioned to draw cool night air and maintain lower temperatures without refrigeration.

A standalone RetroSuburbia chapter treating the kitchen and food-processing facilities as the heart and soul of any self-reliant household. Covers harvest flows, food preservation, fermentation infrastructure, cold storage, and the relationship between garden output and kitchen capacity.

A standalone chapter from David Holmgren’s RetroSuburbia examining what a resilient household diet looks like in practice. Holmgren explores local and seasonal eating, fermentation, modest consumption, and adapting food choices to bioregion and changing circumstances — treating diet as both a personal and political act.