White Sapote
With fruit that tastes like vanilla custard mixed with creamy banana and peaches, you’ll be wanting this in your yard!
Author: Hermann Paulenz
The power of trees – Agroforestry
Current farming practices might only be viable for another 60 years, but one way to mitigate erosion and improve farming methods is agroforestry.
Heartwood – a book review
Our top science-nerd loved this book with the author’s broad perspective on land management and experimental mindset – if you’re interested in Agroforestry you should definitely check this out!
PFAF – it’s the Permaculture Designer’s bounty of plant info
One of the truly great resources for Permaculture Designers is the plant database of “Plants for a future” (PFAF), with over 7,000 plant species catalogued!
Propagating from cuttings
A truly cost-effective way to get new plants from the ones you already have is to propagate from cuttings. Here’s some simple tips to help you do it!
A few thoughts on wicking beds
One of the big hits at Permablitzes are wicking beds. It is time that we talk a little bit about how they work, why they work, and what you can do to make them...
Life as a human book
A human library works just like a book library – except that it’s humans providing the knowledge through the chance for one-on-one loans. So for one very special morning, our very own Hermann realised his dream of becoming a human book
Seed dating Permabee
Lovely hosts, lovely Blitzers and lovely weather. Put them together and everything was now in place for the first ever seed dating Permabee!
Plants eat Bacteria!
When Justus von Liebig discovered the elemental composition of plants and promoted the agricultural use of synthetic chemicals with “Chemistry in its application to agriculture and physiology” in 1840, he did not foresee the...
Permablitz #177 Surrey Hills
The weather was perfect on this January Sunday afternoon in Surrey Hills, cloudy and not too hot. We joined Melissa and her small family to transform her garden into a place that she always...
