Australian backyards productive places

August 26, 2004 Permaculture

Australia's backyards were productive places when ABS carried out its census of home garden productivity in 1992...

Misadventure on the way to the Walls

July 20, 2004 A Tasmanian journey

Tasmania, some time in the 1970s. CLAAAANG! Someone slams the car door and the party sets off into the early evening gloom of the rainforest. A short slope…

Mountains, memory and the nature of experience

July 20, 2004 Nomadics

PERHAPS I DIDN’T KNOW how to enjoy hardship. Perhaps I wasn’t cut out for this sort of thing. Perhaps the authors of those adventure books I had read…

Comfortable mudbrick on the Southern Highlands

July 13, 2003 Nomadics

First published 2003 by Russ Grayson. IT IS WINTER on the Southern Highlands of NSW, a time when the warmth of the sun is weak and the cold…

Urban farming may be on way to extinction

July 13, 2003 The alt.food movement

First published: September 2003. IF YOU EAT FRESH FOOD in Sydney, offer your thanks to the 1300 market gardeners who farm the Sydney Basin and supply the city…

Community supported agriculture has potential study finds

September 1, 2002 The alt.food movement

Community supported agriculture has a future in Australia but farmers must have skills other than farming, a report finds...