A Tasmanian journey… “WHAT’S THIS?”. Fiona holds out her hand as if to catch whatever it is that has started to fall from the sky… small, soft flakes that disappear as soon as they settle on the ground. “It’s snow. Soft summer snow!”, she says. So it is. Just light flakes. It isn’t that wet […]
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SOMETIMES, useful things come at small scale. So it was with the 'Useful' series of booklets produced for those establishing permaculture systems ...
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A Tasmanian journey… LIKE THE AUTHOR, when I lived in Tasmania I too felt the allure of the Bass Strait islands. Unlike the author, changing circumstances prevented me doing anything about it. Now I get to look down on Flinders Island every time I fly into Tasmania, providing the weather down there is clear. And […]
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A surprise discovery in a mountain hut closes the circle of time...
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High on a Tasmanian mountain there's a hidden hut, so late one day we went to look for it....
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It was a city already saturated from days of rain that those of us peering through the big windows of Blacktown Council’s Narimba room looked out over. A grey scene of low clouds scudding past, their dark mass frequently unleashing the downpours that have become a constant presence in city life this past week, the […]
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FOR MONTHS they had been meeting and now, on the warm Sunday morning of October 27, they were ready. How many would turn up? Would it all go well? Would it be a success? The transformation started. The trees arrived and were unloaded. Tables and chairs were set out. Street barriers put in place. It […]
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IT WAS A TALE of two farmers. The first came as a call from a Sydney region grower. Would Ronny like to come and collect some oranges? It was cheaper not to take them to market, said the grower. Two tonnes were collected. The second farmer to call had 16 tonnes of carrots. The supermarket […]
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I ATTENDED the ABC Gardening Australia Live event at the old Sydney showgrounds last Sunday and it’s this that leads to what I want to say about entry fees, the willingness to pay and the value proposition. Let’s deal with this theoretical stuff first, because it bears upon what I want to say about the […]
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