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...
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...
Dec 4, 2018 | 40 Years of Permaculture, Life on the Farm, News
It was the year we celebrated 40 years of permaculture (since permaculture one) and in honour of this we ramped up our delivery of Permaculture whilst continuing our usual activities and services. In a nutshell we: EDUCATION: Delivered extra permaculture courses – a...
Mar 9, 2018 | Life on the Farm, News
How well are you using your vertical space? Remember the Permaculture principles of small space intensive gardening and plant stacking? Vertical gardening is easy with gazebos and arbours that can be made from all sorts of things. In our kitchen garden here at...
Mar 9, 2018 | News, Permaculture Course News
Over summer, our animals were regularly visited by pythons and goannas. Whilst it’s often confronting to see them, I was comforted to know they were safely protected by housing appropriately designed for the disaster predators – snake proof wire and goanna and snake...