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Comment on Farmers of the urban footpath – design guidelines for street verge gardens by permacultures urbaines - Pearltrees

permacultures urbaines - Pearltrees — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 11:25:52 +0000

[...] The verge garden at Perth City farm includes a diverse array of species and, with the funky City Farm fence with its grape vine and other foliage, creates a pleasant streetscape. Food security and council planting policy The global food price rises of recent years, the food crisis of 2007-2008 and recent natural disasters have highlighted the value of cities retaining a high food production capacity on their rural fringe and within the suburbs. Community food gardens are a response to this as would be edible street verges though the volume of food that verges could produce is limited. developing social capital and civic engagement. Farmers of the urban footpath – design guidelines for street verge gardens | http://www.pacific-edge.info [...]

Comment on Getting in early: the 2010 permaculture calendar and diary by Social Permacuture by fetelevousmeme - Pearltrees

Social Permacuture by fetelevousmeme - Pearltrees — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:25:30 +0000

[...] Getting in early: the 2010 permaculture calendar and diary | http://www.pacific-edge.info One month, one photo. [...]

Comment on The farm comes to Sydney Saturday mornings in Darlinghurst by chloe mason

chloe mason — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:47:00 +0000

Good to see coverage of this fine market to let more people know, especially as it’s so easy to reach being on Taylor Square.
My fave are the Champions’ duck eggs (and chicken eggs) for stunning omelettes!

Comment on Locals take paint to boring community compost bins by Jack

Jack — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:29:55 +0000

That is a great Idea, them black compost bins are a little dull to look at.

Comment on Partings by Debbie Hamilton

Debbie Hamilton — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 09:21:01 +0000

I am Gary Hyde’s sister. He died in 1975 traffic accident, the driver of the oncoming car fell asleep at the wheel Gary was in a Mini Moke, no chance. He lived in Canberra and was travelling to Sydney to meet his family who were coming to Sydney from all over the world for their first Christmas together in nine years. In the clips of film from the ABC program GTK you can catch a glimpse of him and when he is touching his forehead as he was in the Rolling Stones interview he had a migrane. Mick Jagger asked him if he would like to see their “doctor” and that he would “fix him up” Gary politely refused as didn’t know what the “doctor” would give him. Gary’s full name is Gary Hyde Cates. May I ask what your interest is in him?
Regards
Debbie

Comment on A local currency that was by Annette Loudon

Annette Loudon — Mon, 30 May 2011 09:17:30 +0000

Great to see people haven’t forgotten the Australian community currency pioneers!

Ann Jupp, Maleny LETS activist gave a brief overview of the movement at the 2008 National LETS Conference. Conference notes are available in PDF form. Anne’s talk is summarised on pg1 http://lets.org.au/2008%20Nat.%20LETS%20Conference%20Report.pdf

Reasons generally given for the decline of LETS systems tend to include: failure to gain momentum, lack of range of goods and services (easy to earn, hard to spend), too many members in high debit and high credit causing stagnation, concerns about tax, and administrator burnout. Aside from that there’s the counter-cyclical nature of community currency systems. They don’t see much action in the good times, but when money gets a bit tight LETS systems come alive.

Sydney got a LETS system in the end. Started in 2003 by Jacqui Kennedy, who had previous run Illawara LETS. Despite a pretty low profile Sydney LETS is going strong these days. We have about 800 members and trade online using the CES system.

Find out more and sign up online at http://www.auslets.org/sydney

Annette Loudon

Comment on A short and incomplete history of permaculture by Ridhi

Ridhi — Sun, 22 May 2011 07:56:07 +0000

This is SUCH a well written piece. Thank you so much for sharing this. I’m working on a paper on Permaculture. And since I’d only done workshops on Permaculture and implemented it, I think this refresher in the history of Permaculture will help me share whatever I know on this topic much more effectively.

Cheers!