Archive | December, 2007

Fitzroy fowls fare poorly

FOWLS IN FITZROY, yes, but foxes? Come on, expect me to believe that? Well, that’s what the sign on the house I’m standing in front of says. Amid a somewhat graphic rendering attached to the wall of the Victorian era house are the simple but equally graphic words, “Foxes got our chooks”. Fitzroy, for the  Read more »

Permaculture – a movement in need of a history

Permaculture’s early books emerged from a publishing context of magazines and books on alternative living and a social context of footloose youth seeking better ways of living. Despite this, the movement has as yet produced no cogent history of itself…