In some excellent last-minute news, Transition Bondi are hosting an evening with David Holmgren + Nicole Foss this Friday Night at the Sydney Mechanics School of Arts starting 6.30pm. Please come if you can, and tell your friends! This is an important conversation that we all need to be a part of (or, more correctly,…
Allow us to point out the overwhelmingly obvious here, but how damn awesome are plants? They’re satisfying to grow, super delicious to eat, and of course also perform a whole host of tasks that keep our planet humming. But wait, there’s more. Another side of their beauty really shines when you use them for dyeing fabrics.
Most of us know all too well that our cities could do with more green space. Adding flora to our concrete jungles has proven to bring huge benefits to our physical health by lowering overall temperatures, reducing pollution, and buffering noise. Green Space is also super for our mental health – creating space where communities can…
Natural Building is rather a broad subject. It takes in everything from strawbale building to cobb, light earth, rammed earth, roundwood construction, earth floors and mud and lime wall renders, just for starters. We figure it’s best to dive straight in, and get hands-on while you get your head around these different construction techniques. Here’s some photos…
The term CSA – Community Supported Agriculture – gets used a fair bit in this country, sometimes referring (incorrectly) to veggie box schemes filled with veg from far and wide. But in reality, we have very few true CSAs in Australia; hence our limited understanding of what one is, and why they can be so valuable…
David Holmgren and Nicole Foss are on the road delivering workshops and lectures (as well as teaching on our upcoming PDC) in the next month, with some seriously important things to say – are you ready to adapt and thrive? “We are approaching many limits to growth over the next several decades, and are consequently…
Protein can be a wee point of contention sometimes. Talk to most about food production and our environment and you are likely to come across the discussion of meat. As you no doubt know, much of the animal protein we eat produced in Australia is responsible for the use of exorbitant amounts of water, and…
More than ever, the world is waking up to the importance of bees in our ecology. More and more folk are exploring beekeeping, whether it’s for the honey harvest, the extra pollination of our food thanks to those bees working busily on all things pollen, or purely for the fascination of these brilliant insects.
For every green smoothie, garland-wearing dog and perfect sunset on Instagram that creates a bizarre parallel universe of sunshiny perfection, there’s also a small farmer or two posting downright useful images. As it turns out, instagram is also a good place to take inspiration from how other peoples crops are doing. And what their truck looks like, when…
On our last Natural Building course, we built a portable reciprocal roundhouse frame. Beauty meets strength meets simplicity. Using sapling logs (though you can use bamboo instead, or framing timber, at a pinch) plus ropes and screws, this structure went up fast and is a great foundation for all sorts of projects.
Have you heard of The Planthunter yet? It’s a new online journal that explores plants, in all their universes. Edgy and interesting writing, lots of different takes and perspectives. Refreshing stuff. Recently, Georgina from The Planthunter had a chat with Nick last week about plants and power and permaculture, and now it’s up online! Read all about it here.
For many people, doing a Permaculture Design Course (PDC) can be a life-changer – whether it’s opening your eyes to a new way of seeing, living or doing, or giving you the confidence to go out and do those things. Quite a few of our lovely PDC students end up heading on different career trajectories…
It takes our favourite kind of people to address the problem of a lack of council-run rubbish collection service with their own bicycle-powered hauling service. Which is what Pedal People of Northampton, Massachusetts in the United States do!
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