Right now, multiple communities in NSW, QLD and beyond are in uproar and blockade mode against Coal Seam Gas (CSG) exploration – but you won’t see it on the news. Why not? It’s hard to say – mainstream media is a … Continued
What a gorgeous place this is – bursting with organically grown food, fruit, herbs and animals, and boasting the prettiest cooking school we ever did see. Just when I thought Tasmania couldn’t get any better…
My entire country is in hysterics. Heck, I am nearly in hysterics. It’s election day tomorrow, and it’s likely to be extremely not good. Clearly it is time for seedling porn. How are your spring babies coming along? Are you likely … Continued
The excellent crew over at Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance are making a doco that will tackle some very big issues happening in Australia right now. Do we really want a local food system and national food security? Time to shed … Continued
I’m not sure how she got called Fatso. Probably because there were three of them, and she was the plumpest, by a fair margin. She was the pig which tended to disregard the electric fence occasionally and go for a … Continued
Recently Nick was lucky enough to hang out with David Holmgren for a couple of days at Melliodora, the superb small-acre permaculture site that David has established with his partner Su Dennett in Hepburn Springs, Victoria. Being in the thick … Continued
The delights of the country show are many. For me, though, it’s all about the vegetables. Specifically the vegetables dressed as animals, or people. All the rest of pales in comparison. Last week I was lucky enough to catch the … Continued
An ecoPOP is a small and self-contained city oasis, boasting a simple, self-contained system of self-watering fruit trees, herbs, water collection and a worm farm. Intended to be installed in places like a median strip in a suburban street, they’re … Continued
‘You have to come to the Allsun farm open day’ said my scythe-mad friend Nikki. ‘They’re a microfarm and they do market gardening and all this amazing stuff there with integrated animal systems and they’re just brilliant’. Hmm, we thought. … Continued
In a small house in Byron Bay, surrounded by lush gardens sporting edible plants from ever continent on earth, live two of Australia’s living legends. No truly, I’m not being romantic – if i can achieve but a fraction of … Continued
Here’s a couple of photos of an Aquaponics system our friend Floyd recently built in Thailand. His brief was to provide fish, herbs and greens for the staff of an island-based business, on a site that was not exactly prime … Continued
So who’s coming to the Mudgee Small Farm Field Days this Friday + Saturday? This year we’re presenting a series of free + informative talks in the cosy strawbale classroom, alongside Watershed Landcare. It’s going to be great and we … Continued
Following on from a whole street of verge gardens is another verge garden in Sydney that is using verge plantings as a great way of cultivating community. Costa and his verge needs little introduction, since his garden gets featured weekly … Continued
