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Blitz 141 West Brunswick Food Forest

The morning frost melted as the sun poured over the West Brunswick Food Forest, resulting in a spectacularly sunny winter’s day. Volunteers from both the Permablitz network and friends of the Food Forest joined forces in...

Blitz 137: Carnegie

The last blitz of Summer heralded the first chill of Autumn – and occasional breaks due to showers! This day down in the South-Eastern suburbs saw a grassy, run-down and neglected alley… …transformed in...

Permablitz 136 in Eltham

If you thought 10am was an early start on a Sunday – how about 8:30am? This was one day when many blitzers would be happy to get up a bit early; already 28 by...

Blitz 134 North Coburg

After rainy days earlier in the week, the day of the permablitz was a sunny and welcoming one throughout. Most of the crew arrived for the start (10 am on a Sunday!) and got...

2013 Permaculture Calendar

A plug for our friends who produce the excellent Permaculture Calendar: Organise your life and share your schedule with this lovely, deceptively simple but thought-provoking, calendar in your home or workplace. It’s filled with...

Blitz 135 in Northcote

It was a gorgeous day.  The sun kindly poked its head out just in time for the first blitzers to arrive – some new faces, and others who met at previous blitzes. In a...

Blitz 132 in Hampton Park

We had about seven people attend the blitz on Sunday. We relocated about three cubic metres of soil, set up about four raised vegie beds including planting seedlings, and weeded the existing orchard in...

Goths in the Garden

[ After we made some reference to the apparent incompatibility of permablitzing and goth culture in a recent newsletter we received several responses from some wonderful ecologically-minded goths, who are involved in activities such as permaculture,...

Blitz 130 in North Coburg

The morning was cloudy and pleasantly cool; the soil and compost piles spread between house and fence. Camellias dropped their last flowers with the rustle of wattle birds on their branches, as the worms...