Welcome to Permablitz Melbourne!
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...
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...
Let it be said that there isn’t a garden too small to be permablitzed. A small group of helpers descended on Matt and Emma’s small garden in North Fitzroy, which had been blitzed just over...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
[ 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,...
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...