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.
DetailsFor 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…
DetailsIt 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!
DetailsNever has the saying ‘time is money’ been truer than when it comes to this community-based alternative currency idea. Members of a Time Bank exchange goods and services without money; using their own time instead as the currency, on the presumption that my time is just as valuable as your time….
DetailsWarrigal Greens (Tetragonia tetragonioides) are also known as Botany Bay Spinach or Sea Spinach, and grow wild along the coast of Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Japan and Argentina. If you’re in these parts, you can find it where the sand meets the soil, or you can cultivate it too – it’s a hardy and delicious addition to any…
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Setting up a good little backyard aquaponics system can ensure you’re dripping with herbs and greens on a regular basis, with the addition of an occasional home-grown fish night! But which fish? Not all are suitable, but there’s a few key species that are especially excellent for home aquaponics setups… There’s a lot to be said about the beauty…
DetailsWe thought we’d share this one with you as it looks pretty darn fine. INHABIT is a film project by Costa Boustikaris and Emmett Brennan, based in the Northeastern regions of the United States. It’s a doco about permaculture and features many farmers, practitioners and designers that we think are awesomesauce.
DetailsRecently we held a Serious Backyard Veggies course at Buena Vista Farm in Gerringong, south of Sydney. It was not what your would call a calm, sunny and dry weekend – but the learning was great, the setting most beautiful and the food most scrumptious. So nobody seemed to mind.
DetailsJust a head-up that Common2us, an organic market garden at Dural on the northern edge of Sydney, is offering an on-farm ‘residential’ volunteer position. If you’re interested in learning about organic agriculture, specifically market gardening in a real ‘hands in the dirt, feet on the ground kinda way’, this might just be the opportunity you’ve been looking for…
DetailsAn organic market gardener’s toolkit is their best friend – the right tools can turn a 50-minute job into a five minute one. There’s a huge range of tools that can be put to valuable use in a market garden, but there certainly seems to be a certain bunch that tend to get pulled out…
DetailsAnd here’s where we’ve landed – in the rolling hills and hidden coves of the South Coast. We’ve dived straight into exploring, foraging and getting a feel for the lay of the land…
This Autumn was a special one at the farm – after a year of dry everything was suddenly green, the bees were buzzing furiously, the market garden was pumping and the chickens were laying. And then we held our Autumn Permaculture Design Course and, along with a beautiful crew of students, turned the farm into…
DetailsThose of you who have been around these parts for a while might remember a review we did a few years back of one of permaculture’s essential reads, Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture by J. Russell Smith. Some say it formed part of the basis of permaculture’s origins, as a concept. And so it goes without…
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