Oct 13, 2023 | Life on the Farm, News, Permaculture Course News
Fruit Trees galore 100s of bare rooted stock now in and planted budding and flowering, in the newly created Food Forest on the PSI Farm. The heritage fruit tree workshop was loads of fun and learning with Pete the Permie and Silvia. Pete covered all the usual topics...
Jul 18, 2023 | News, Permaculture Course News
The long weekend natural building Workshop was a wonderful weekend where we constructed a new small building off our existing wattle and daub hut. We built a rammed earth wall; a light straw wall and a rammed earth floor. The building is for our wwooffers...
Apr 5, 2023 | News, Permaculture Course News
Our last Earthworks and Water Workshop we held in in Feb with Doc Spicer was a smash hit. We learned about swales and terraces and constructed two terraces as earthworks for the farm food forest. Participants also had a go on the excavators, mulched and seeded the...
Feb 7, 2023 | News, Permaculture Course News
These are the newest graduates from PSI January PDC course charged to go forth and change the worlds with permaculture. And a fine bunch there were too. I have great hope and optimism from the designs they produced in the course. The course gave them their first...
Nov 14, 2022 | Life on the Farm, News, Permaculture Course News
Bench Project Report by Daniel Birdsall Since August at Permaculture Sydney Institute, construction of a bench has been underway as part of a Natural Building workshop that was held on the first weekend of October. The Bench was built from earthbags with a glass...
Feb 17, 2021 | 10 Years of PSI, 40 Years of Permaculture, News, Permaculture Course News
Over the last 10 years PSI has been creating a permaculture demonstration site at Bandusia Country Retreat and the adjacent PSI Farm. The power of a demonstration site we believe is the best way to share and influence knowledge about ecologically sustainable...