Terraforming Planet Earth
Heard of ‘terraforming‘? That’s the technical term for taking inhospitable planets and changing the atmosphere and introducing life to make them habitable to humans. Kind of a sci-fi thing at this stage. And since...
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Doing the Maths of Blitz
You’ve heard of the Win-Win. Well how about the WIN to the power of WIN times WIN, fried in a wholesome batter of extra WIN. When you’re blitzing you’re learning by doing, while getting ideas...
Happiness Squared.
“If you want to be happy in this life for one day, you get drunk, but if you want to be happy forever, become a gardener.” — Old saying Why not, we ask, do...
You Can Have Your Environment and Eat It Too
Collaborate with nature. Then eat it. That’s the permaculture ethos in a nutshell. “And that’s a good thing?” you ask. Why, yes I say. You see as mammals we eat, we breath, and we...
Monkey Steals the Peach
What do you think of when you think of ninjas? Discipline, stealth like the wind, reserved fashion sense? How about barley wine, duck poo and mud? For they were, at least at first, a...
Why Aren’t You Blitzing?
It has been one hell of a couple of weeks. Our condolences to all who have suffered from the fires. With the devastating heat seemingly past, it seems time to rebuild and regrow for...
The Beret and the Garden Fork
Welcome to a permablitz newsletter with courses, news on water restrictions, heroic tales and photos from past blitzes, more investment advice for troubled times and some profound prognostications on the nature of art and the art of gardening, starting with a relevant quote from an historically significant personality. Mmm… Intellectually enriching.
Vegetable News Alert: Ugly is the New Pretty
Welcome to another permablitz newsletter with a thick cream dollop of upcoming courses and blitzes, plus some wow-you-out-of-your-seat post-blitz photos, getting intimate with arthropods, a horticultural challenge to the US president-elect, and much more,...
What Food Should I Grow? Ask an Astronaut
Take off your shoes and slip your toes on into the info-chop-suey of this latest permablitz newsletter. We’ve got gardening advice from outer space, we’ve got mercenary microbes, we’ve got organics — macho style,...
Gardens: The Real Growth Economy
Ok, time to get ecological. In ecological terms the only real ‘primary producers’ are photosynthetic organisms — plants and algae. Ultimately our whole economy is powered by photosynthesis and the ancient sunlight captured by...
