This everyday climate action is very simple, and you can start doing it today. Pay the rent. To the people upon whose traditional lands you live, work and benefit from, each and every day. Hopefully, in the future, we will all work together to achieve repatriation for the traditional owners of the lands on which…
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This everyday action is about observing and interacting with your local neighbourhood – by gathering and then learning about five wild and useful plants, that grow near you.
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Need some effective thinking tools to get you started with permaculture living? The 12 permaculture principles, created by David Holmgren, are exactly that. Let’s dig in and have a look at them. Alrighty, so before we dive into the nuts and bolts of all the everyday climate action tools that we’re going to work through,…
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Are you ready to make 2020 your year of action? Of everyday climate action, as well as the year that you gather the skills and habits you need to live a permaculture life – one that nourishes you, your family and your community? Great! We would love to help you make that happen. And so…
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Following on from our last post about climate ready communities, let’s look at some home-level strategies and ideas for radical hope. There are so very many to choose from! First off, if you’ve just arrived, read last week’s post about radical hope. Then let’s get going. Home-based action changes everything (in your head). This first…
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Well, here we all are. In the climate crisis we were all hoping to avoid. It’s time to muster your community, and get to work. Where do we start? With inspiring precedents, and with community resources for radical hope. The fires are raging from end to end in Australia this year, and it’s not even…
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When it comes to creating community and local food economies, local bread is one of the basics. And in the little town of Daylesford in regional Victoria, a micro-business called Two Fold Bakehouse is smashing the community baking model out of the park. The two bakers of Two Fold run a CSB – otherwise known…
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Well folks, here we go – our first online course, Permaculture Living, is finally out in the world. It feels like we’ve been working on this new course for EVER and we’re so happy to be able to finally share it with you! So. Firstly, a bit about the course. In its essence, the Permaculture…
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So you want to grow your own organic food, and some for your community, too? We sit down with Olivier, half for the award-winning Living Earth Farm team AND also the teacher of our past Intro to Organic Market Gardening course, to chat about his top 5 things that every future farmer needs to know…
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A little bit of news from us – we are moving to Tasmania! Off to the southern wilds… We have been at Melliodora in central Victoria for three years now, and we have learned so much from this beautiful place, and its people. Three years of milking goats, growing veggies, frosty fingers and farm chores.…
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In the wake of Australia’s recent election, many around us have been asking ‘what can we do now’? It’s time to research, act and organise as a community, my friends. With good books for troubled times. Since our recent election I’ve been asked for book recommendations about organising grassroots change, but have also watched on…
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We have a new book! Easy Peasy: Gardening for Kids is a do-it-yourself book for small people to explore the natural world around them, and grow and eat it, too.
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If you forage just one thing from the wilds (or your backyard) each year, please let it be elderberry. Free medicine, wine and dessert vinegar could all be yours. Such an incredible plant! The Elder Native to most of Europe and north America, elder (Sambucus nigra) is a spindly stemmed, fast-growing deciduous shrub that flowers…
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