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ACT permablitz

Details: Published on Tuesday, 07 December 2010 10:00; Written by adam

Our Canberran friends are about have a their 8th permablitz this weekend!

James Howard Kunstler on Permablitz 'Heroes'

Details: Published on Monday, 06 December 2010 23:22; Written by adam

"Permablitz is a great idea for raising public consciousness about the urgency of getting our act together on locally grown food. It's also a welcome sign that the young adult generation is capable of heroism."

James Howard Kunstler, author of The Geography of Nowhere and The Long Emergency (www.kunstler.com)

100th permablitz message from Darren Doherty and Lisa Heenan

Details: Published on Monday, 06 December 2010 22:56; Written by adam

In the permaculture and regenerative agriculture movements there are few we respect more than Darren Doherty. Bendigo born and now a world renowned designer he attempts to spread both knowledge of Keyline agriculture design systems and the love of Australian Rules football to more ignorant places. We're humbled that as he and his partner Lisa travel, they often tell people about permablitz. Lisa it seems even does it in rhyme...

Permaculture is an open-source movement which prides itself on working with those who are ready to be involved, speaking to those who are ready to listen. The effectiveness of this bottom-up strategy is that once you get the Permaculture bug then its not usual that you shake it off. The Permablitz initiative has been an enormously engaging and effective process of developing the capacity for people to be introduced to Permaculture, and do so incrementally such that they are not intimidated by the seeming enormity of the Permaculture spectra, indeed they are starting with 'one backyard at a time'.

Humans have for a long time been involved in community-based building projects together with working bees and 'pot lucks', the former having an enduring outcome whereas the latter two are more around cleaning up and socialising. The Permablitz concept successfully entwines all of this together and rightfully requires attendance in order to qualify for your own Permablitz to occur. What we love most about Permablitz is apart from the activity is how easy a sell it is. We mention it to people all over the world and they just love the idea and immediately the eyes light up and they are alive again with the spirit of regeneration. So bravo Permablitz for having Permblitz #100 this weekend, you should be very proud of the virus you've created and the integrity with which you've promoted Permaculture in doing so.

Love to you all and here's to many more milestones,

Darren J. Doherty

Permaculturetation, PERMABLITZING around the nation, we needing some regeneration, gotta move on a consultation, we got an issue with our insulation.
You don't need to have telepathy, we 've got a problem with allelopathy, be the change that you all wanna see, give Mother Nature a bit of empathy.
Stop being an unconscious consumer, buy food that won't give you a tumor, start a relationship with your local farmer, eatin' fresh food that you know won't harm ya.
You wanna eat meat from a factory, man that's something y'all don't wanna see, treating animals so disrespectfully, karmic pay back is a reality.
Permaculturetation, permablitzing around the nation, our earth is needing some regeneration, get moving on a consultation,gotta fix up our insulation,
Climate Change that is, yeah Global Warming, Holes in the Ozone layer, Seas heating up, Ice melting, Sea levels rising, Island cultures dying, you with me, get real, check it out, Regenerate the landscape, rejuvenate the soils and rejoice in abundance for all !!!

BECOME more useful, do a Permaculture Course!! Start PERMABLITZing!!!
PERMABLITZ- HAPPY 100- You guys ROCK!!!!!! WOOHOOO, Happy birthday Permablitz, Permabitz it's your birthday!!!!
Lots of Love Lisa Heenan

www.RegenAG.com
www.permaculture.biz
Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

Thanks Daz and Lisa! More power to you!

Permablitz 100th Birthday Milestone (A birthday message from Costa!)

Details: Published on Friday, 03 December 2010 20:17; Written by adam

Dear Bitzers,

Thanks for the opportunity to share a few words with you all gathered here on this special weekend. I am in Brisbane with the Regenag series and Joel Salatin . Would have loved to have been there in person but am there in spirit and beard..

I had the pleasure of being a part of a blitz some time back now in East Malvern in 2009 and documenting it as a segment on the show. Since then I have been spreading the word about what you do and what you have unleashed.

Today is a wonderful achievement and in my view of the world I believe it is important to recognise what we do in life, what we achieve as individuals , as a family, and as a community for that matter. Permablitz was an idea, an idea that stemmed from the thoughts of individuals…thoughts that each and every one of us have every day. There are lots and lots of good ideas crystallizing every second of every day. But the road from a thought crystallizing in this case to 100 Permablitz Gardens completed in 3D reality is what we are here to celebrate today. Today is about that road..the time, the challenges, the issues, the agreement, the disagreement, the evolution of the ideas into what is now a movement that has changed peoples lives, lots of peoples lives up until now and many many more as a result of the infectious nature of what a Permablitz releases each and every time they take place.

Each Blitz is different..I love that detail so much. Each blitz is a learning process for everyone involved…they are planned but they are spontaneous, flexible and open to that true living and breathing ‘X’ factor. Permablitz changes and challenges people’s perspectives on things… on everything from the big picture, but more importantly on the little day to day details that can be so entrenched and seemingly hard to shift or engage.

Humble Melbourne beginnings and yet the ‘blitz’ is spreading its wings and effecting people globally. That is the true sign of a wonderful achievement, that it is being taken and used, open source in places well beyond its birth place, but giving rise to change and learning elsewhere… taking education from its seed place… a local idea making change happen locally and in a manageable way, but in the process adding to the international matrix of accessible food : food security through local supply. Giving people the opportunity to access chemical free food, grown locally with love, building understanding of cycles and seasons, and the ability to eat food from the backyard, biogenically consumed within minutes of harvest.

You have unleased an understanding of the soil..people feeding their soil to fuel their soul.

I have nothing but admiration for what you have achieved and what you have created.

There’s no known cure to the pandemic you have released….I'm infected in perpetuity..

Happily contagious and knowingly spreading your virus….yipppeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Happy 100^th Blitz and 1000’s more to come

Big Big Hugs to everyone

Costa

Check out Costa's Garden Odyssey over at http://www.sbs.com.au/shows/costa/watchonline/page/i/1/show/costa

Permablitz Albury Wodonga

Details: Published on Monday, 08 November 2010 10:40; Written by adam

From abc.net.au:

Oliver and Kristopher Cottee and Charisse Venables are helping set-up a community garden at Thurgoona (Allison Jess - ABC Local)

4 November, 2010 4:28PM AEDT

No time for your own garden

By Allison Jess (ABC Goulburn Murray)

If you are having trouble finding the time to set-up or take care of your own garden, how about sharing one?

If you are struggling with time, cost or space to create your own veggie garden, you might think about getting involved in a community garden.

Local councils can usually point you in the right direction however if you live near Thurgoona you're invited to help set-up a community garden on Charles Sturt University's Thurgoona campus this weekend.

CSU's John Rafferty says a "permablitz" workshop will be held on Saturday to get the community garden started.