Fruit and VEG in Altona (Paul in The Age)
Our Paul from the permablitz network and Very Edible Gardens and his partner Claire were featured in a full colour article in The Age today: "It’s a typical suburban backyard – about 70 square...
Author: Adam Grubb
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...
Rebuilding After the Fires
An upcoming Bushfire Resistant Design Forum with Permaculture co-orginator David Holmgren and ASPO Australia’s Ian Dunlop
Saturday 21 March 12-5pm at Eltham College
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...
Permablitz #60 – North Dandenong
Over 40 people came to an incredibly productive, informative and inspiring Permablitz in North Dandy. We planted a tagasaste wind break, planted a banana, nectarine, lemon and apple tree and 2 currants, built 5+ grey water filtration...
Very Edible Gardens
On February 20th Very Edible Gardens (or VEG) was launched – a collaborative project between four keen Melbourne permablitzers. VEG is focused on helping Melbourne’s transition towards sustainability, which includes edibility, and hence more...
Bushfire Resistant Design
In 1983 permaculture co-originator David Holmgren responded to the tragic Ash Wednesday fires with a project called The Flywire House. After many years out of print, Holmgren Design Services has now fast tracked the...
Eat The Suburbs: Gardening for the End of the Oil Age
A film by Tanya Curnow, 2006. EAT THE SUBURBS takes the oil debate from the bowser to the backyard and follows Melbourne’s “permablitzers” as they prepare for the end of the oil age… one...
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...
