Category Archives: community projects

Building an earthbag wicking bed garden…

May 20, 2012 – 6:00 am

Earthbags are a great idea for building raised garden bed surrounds because of their simplicity and their strength. Recently Nick led a community workshop to transform a townhouse patio into an edible landscape, with earthbag surrounds for a set of bathtub wicking beds…

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Earthbag bench building workshop: 6th May, Sydney

April 30, 2012 – 6:00 am

This Sunday Nick is leading a free earthbag bench building workshop as part of National Permaculture Day in Sydney. Do you want to come along? Earthbag is a really excellent, low-impact building technique used for building strong, solid structures; be they benches, garden beds, or homes. We’ve cut our teeth on an Earthbag dome at [...]

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Upcoming Earthship Talk with Michael Reynolds in Sydney!

January 25, 2012 – 6:00 am

Guess what? We’re hosting a great evening talk with Michael Reynolds, that world-leading sustainability pioneer of Earthship Biotecture, in Sydney on the 26th Feb. Do you want to come? This community event is going to be a uniquely inspiring & informative evening of radical architecture, ideas and discussion about Earthship building and living. >> Book [...]

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PERMABLITZ info night: 16th Jan: Sydney

January 9, 2012 – 2:13 pm

Join Adam Grubb of the original Permablitz crew for a fabulous and free info night on how to devise and run a great permablitz. Come along and learn skills and tricks for running a successful permablitz that your whole community can get inspired by… This free event is for any permablitz enthusiast who wants to [...]

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New Organizer’s Guides from Permablitz

December 17, 2011 – 6:00 am

As if Melbourne Permablitz crew weren’t cool enough already, they’ve now outdone themselves. They’ve released a series of organizer’s guides for running a successful permablitz really, really well. These in-depth guides cover all the essential aspects of a great permablitz: designing, facilitating, hosting and documenting. They’re comprehensive documents and a great asset for anyone doing [...]

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Milkwood Social: Film Night: Vanishing of the Bees

September 22, 2011 – 6:00 am

Roll up, roll up. It’s our very first film night in Mudgee! We thought we’d start with Vanishing of the Bees, an amazing doco about why organic beekeeping (and farming) is so darn important. And it’s free! Please join us for a local wine, a wood fired pizza and a great evening: Wednesday 5th October, [...]

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The Greenhorns and Joel Salatin in Gerringong

July 22, 2011 – 6:00 am

The night before our workshop with Joel Salatin at Jamberoo, there’s going to be an awesome evening. It’s the Australian premiere of The Greenhorns, a new and funky film on young farmers. And Joel Salatin will be there, slurping soup and talking farming. The Greenhorns is a great new film we discovered recently and have [...]

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Talking Regenerative Agriculture in Mudgee

July 1, 2011 – 6:00 am

A quick plug for a lecture series called Talking Regenerative Agriculture that we’re running on 15-16 July at the Mudgee Small Farm Field Days. Two days of talks by farmers and folks doing amazing stuff in the realms of permaculture and regenerative agriculture! We’ve somehow convinced a very impressive lineup of doers and thinkers to [...]

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Come to our annual Sydney Permablitz!

June 6, 2011 – 6:00 am

Join us for a fabulous day of digging, planting, learning and growing, with our annual Alexandria Park Permablitz! 10 – 4pm: Monday 13th June: Alexandria Park Community Garden, Alexandria, Sydney. Everyone is welcome, with light lunch and organic fruit provided. Bring your gloves, your boots, your kids, your dad & your water bottle, and expect [...]

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DIY urban bathtub aquaponics system

March 21, 2011 – 12:00 am

Aquaponics just might be the ultimate closed-loop food production system. A healthy aquaponics system can provide its lucky owner with fresh fish and fresh organic vegetables year round, for very little ongoing cost. Getting an aquaponics system set up, however, can be costly. There’s lots of off-the-shelf systems to choose from nowadays, but they cost [...]

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