Tuesday, March 8, 2011. A mixture of 18 gardens around the country with food growing at their centre.

No gas, no electric, no water bills? .

Training course in Lovina, Bali, on January 2009. Saturday, 17 September 2011. IPC10 is the International Permaculture Conference, which takes place right now in Ammann, Jordan. it is live streamed on the Internet. Thursday, 10 February 2011. It is always very inspiring for me having Permaculture-Friends visiting. So many things to learn and share! Good luck and just do it! Tuesday, 9 November 2010.

We are a group of like-minded growers of useful heritage plant varieties in the Bellingen area of northeast New South Wales, Australia. Our climate varies from frost-free coastal areas to inland river valleys and highlands with frosts. Bellingen has an average annual rainfall of 1507ml. Tuesday, 13 March 2018. Bellingen Seed Savers at the 2018 Autumn Plant Fair in Bellingen. David and Michelle with Sweet Leaf cuttings,. Our raffle of local produce is always popular.

Experiments in sustainability and growing in community. A new year has begun and two seasons have passed since my last post. Spring plantings have come and gone and we are finishing off our summer harvests here at Our Blooming Lot. The garden went a bit wild for a time as I retreated into thesis-land. Lucky Andrew was there to carry on gardening! On our return we were surprised by the abundance of tomatoes waiting to be harvested, picking.

Diversity, stability, and resilience are the three principles of great ecological garden design. Place things in relationships and make connections. Draw inspiration from natural systems. You are designing an ecosystem, so copy what nature does best. For example, a thick layer of mulch mimics the leaf litter in a forest- it protects y.

Saturday, June 26, 2010. Looking for place in Ashland to live, share, and grow. If you know of any places that sound like what I described or like minded people who would be interested in creating a new space together, I would love to hear from you. I could never have too many friends. How I experienced four days of a ten day Vipassana meditation course. Friday, June 11, 2010.

Blogs and Websites I Like. July 20, 2012 in Botanic Gardens. Gardening ideas this time for the use of Australian natives found at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Cranbourne, Victoria. Use of plants as sculptural elements. May 14, 2012 in Climate Change.