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Three huts on a trail

Walk to places you haven't been for decades and you walk into memory. This was my experience on the Lenah Valley Track high above Hobart...

Social planning comes first in community garden design

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...

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 a necessary one for any society with democratic aspirations.

Sun the energy source for evening meals at Selli-Hoo

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

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

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 walls.

Day 2: Ripping time as gardeners create edible footpath garden

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

Day 1: A ripping time as gardeners create edible footpath garden

In a do-it-yourself approach to tactical urbanism, a Randwick team has removed a monoculture of agapanthus in preparation for a footpath garden of herbs, vegetables and fruit...

A good experience that could be made better

A reflection on working in local government and on its hiring practices...

Footpath planter gardens turn dull Waterloo space into colourful and productive place

Led by ABC Gardening Australia host, Costa Georgiadis, it was a participatory event to install the footpath planter garden at the Waterloo Neighbourhood Centre...

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