Garden education in Sydney’s sandy east
The Eastern Suburbs sandy soils are starting to sprout lettuce and leeks, cabbage and capsicum thanks to a local government course in sustainable gardening...
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A short and incomplete history of permaculture
An article on permaculture's history - from 1972 onwards - supplied to the New Internationalist magazine by Steve Payne and Russ Grayson, 2007...
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David Holmgren: design approach to food security
David Holmgren says cities can feed themselves...
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Celebrating the conviviality of permaculture
Ian Lillington's approach to permaculture living is hands-on. His 2007 book explains how he went about it and what the permaculture design system means to him and his family...
Read MoreTime for a new localism, says Norberg-Hodge
"See education as activism”, says Helena Norberg-Hodge. "Set up social and learning circles. Have groups of 10 to 15 people who like each other’s company discuss issues and do things together...
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Participatory approach introduces new methods to growers
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 techniques.
Read MoreByron backroads
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 in search of a new life...
Read MoreAustralian backyards productive places
Australia's backyards were productive places when ABS carried out its census of home garden productivity in 1992...
Read MoreComfortable 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 […]
Read MoreCommunity 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...
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