Its a strange thing, how simple tools like compost, forking techniques and biointensive plant spacings might just shape our futures. And also, not so strange at all. The killer thing that we love about biointensive growing is it’s attention to ensuring immediate productivity, while ensuring long-term soil health. In permaculture design, this is embodied in the…
Apple scrap vinegar: you can drink it straight, use it as a household cleaner, drizzle it over your favourite salad and rinse your hair in it. Let’s talk about how seriously good this stuff is, as well as being crazy easy to make. While not being new to the wonderful world of fermenting, apple scrap vinegar…
In less than a months time we’re hosting a Permaculture Teacher Training course with Hannah Moloney, Rosemary Morrow, Nick Ritar + Brendan Morse. It’s not just for teaching Permaculture, though. It’s for top shelf communication skills, of all kinds, for all situations. Effective communication, as we all know, is key to passing on skills of all kinds. The…
If you listen to just one podcast on permaculture, regenerative agriculture + Australia this year, let it be this one. Last week, Bruce Pascoe, author of Dark Emu, joined David Holmgren at the Dayelsford Town Hall in Victoria for an evening of discussion. The topic was Australian regenerative agriculture, and it’s long pre-white history. Something…
We have some exciting news to share, both for us and for you. From mid-Winter this year, Nick, Kirsten + Ashar will be de-camping to Melliodora in Victoria, an amazing permaculture homestead and the home of Permaculture co-originator David Holmgren + his powerhouse partner, Su Dennett. We’ve been invited to do a 12 month residency at…
This small project is a study in macrocosms and microcosms – the large world and the small, the now and the forever. And all on your kitchen bench. Not bad for a grub in a jam jar. I’ve always wanted to raise a butterfly from a caterpillar, but i thought it might be technical or tricky…
‘Can I have two big packets of grass seed, please – I’ve got a lawn to grow’ are words I never thought I’d say. But here we are, de-gardening, trying to leave no trace of our home-grown food bowl. Such is the nature of permaculture renting. We’re out of this place in a month. I…