Social planning comes first in community garden design

August 1, 2012 Participatory techniques

When it comes to starting a community garden, social design precedes site design, and we have developed a simple management plan process for doing this...

Democracy: making it real

August 1, 2012 Journal

Expensive, argumentative and messy it might be, if democracy is to remain a core social and political value then the expense and hassle of dealing with it is…

Sun the energy source for evening meals at Selli-Hoo

August 1, 2012 Permaculture

A very efficient solar cooker is just one of the intermediate technologies found in Australia's longest-triunning share house...

Ecological restoration: A familiar argument from across the Tasman

August 1, 2012 Permaculture

A chance find in New Zealand demonstrates that restoration ecology is almost as controversial there as it can be in Australia...

Shacks—part of our culture, old and new

July 29, 2012 Journal

WHILE I WAS AT the Randwick Community Centre the other day I took the trouble to look closely at the old photographs of the area arrayed around the…

Day 2: Ripping time as gardeners create edible footpath garden

June 6, 2012 Permaculture

Day 2 of the rehabilitation of the Barrett House footpath garden planter in Randwick saw the creation of a new, food-producing garden...