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...
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...
Jun 25, 2019 | Life on the Farm, News
You don’t have to have a mandala garden to have a permaculture garden or be a permie. One chooses to have one. There are many garden design options sometimes the site will determine, the climate or the designer. I’ve chosen a mandala garden design and here are 10 good...