Great speakers, great company, great food, great conviviality
The 2007 Australian City Farms & Community Gardens Network’s annual conference filled Collingwood Town Hall with people and great ideas…
Archive | July, 2007
A short and incomplete history of permaculture
An article on permaculture’s history – from 1972 onwards – supplied to the New Internationalist magazine by Steve Payne and Russ Grayson, 2007…
The long road in the far north – on the local food speakers trail in northern NSW
MARCH DAYS ARE MILD DAYS in the sleepy northern NSW town of Lismore. And this year they were no different…
Fishing symbolises polarisation
A discussion with local fishermen hauling in their catch on a Byron Bay beach in 2006 disclosed how they might be the losers had environmentalists succeeded in having the area zoned as a marine reserve…
Celebrating the conviviality of permaculture
Ian Lillington’s approach to permaculture living is hands-on. His 2007 book explains how he went about it and what the permaculture design system means to him and his family…
Being idle – a book for the free spirited
Idling for the free spirited… and those who would like to join them. THIS IS A BOOK for the free of spirit by the man who edits the famous Idler annual. It’s an interesting, easy to real and irreverent book full of unorthodox ideas that are as challenging to conventional lifestyles as they are common Read more »
