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Mountains, memory and the nature of experience

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 were misrepresenting the experience.

Comfortable mudbrick on the Southern Highlands

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 south-westerly blows in from the snowfields. Yet, no matter how cold it is outside, to step into the yellow-orange mudbrick glow of this house is to enter […]

Urban farming may be on way to extinction

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 with its fresh produce. And if you live elsewhere in NSW you might thank those farmers as well – a full 90 percent of the state’s perishable […]

Community supported agriculture has potential study finds

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

All that remains… ghosts of former times at Bonnie Vale

On the southern edge of Sydney, on the banks of the Hacking River, is the remnant of a once-popular holiday town of fibro shacks...

Just a minor incident

Tasmania, the late 1970s. UP AND UP. Through a dark, wet forest of towering trees. Along a rough track that never saw the work of a maintenance gang. Squishing through muddy patches, slowing as we climb the steeper sections. All familiar stuff to mountain walkers.

Four ways of reading the land

The ability to discern pattern and characteristics in the landscape through the use of a variety of tools enables better planning, according to David Holmgren...

The man who brought ethics to investment

First published in Green Connections in 1998. AFTER MORE THAN 20 years in the world of money, Damien Lynch wants more of it. He wants it not for selfish reasons, but to bring to life a project which would combine both profit and environment. Damien’s project, August Ecoforests, is the culmination of more than 18 […]

A new ecological restoration to feed people

This 1997 article describes a model of edible ecological restoration for the far north coastal region of NSW, as proposed by local bushfood and sustainable landscape designer, Peter Hardwick...

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