On Kerouac, Hemingway and a literary friend

July 13, 2007 Memoir

First published in 2008. IF YOU HAVE TIME TO HANG AROUND, I’ll tell you a little story about literature and coincidence. It’s not a significant story nor an…

Sustainability in Australia – a few ideas

July 13, 2007 Permaculture

First published: 2007 HE WAS QUITE DEFINITE ABOUT IT: “Saving the world is about saving ourselves. The world does not need us. We need to go native, to…

The Byron Bay blues

August 3, 2006 Nomadics

Too many too often — that's what some say about tourists in the idyllic — or maybe not-so-idyllic — Byron Bay...

Guidance from a real earth keeper

July 24, 2006 Permaculture

 First published ABC Organic Gardener 2006. WHAT CAN YOU SAY about a book by someone who wears pearls while gardening and who talks about being a ‘WWEW’ –…

Participatory approach introduces new methods to growers

September 1, 2004 Participatory techniques

PTD — Participatory Technology Development — is an approach that encourages farmers to try out new  techniques, to monitor results and to make decisions about adopting new farming…

Byron backroads

August 27, 2004 Nomadics

It's magic country, those rolling hills of the Byron Bay hinterland, and dotted here an there among their folds are people who have moved from city to country…