Greetings! I am a Californian coming to Australia in January to continue my study of permaculture with the fabulous Aussies. I will be in Sydney from January 10-12 and would love to visit/help out at some urban or suburban permaculture sites in the area; anybody have recommendations? I'm a gardener and natural builder and would be up for helping out as well.

Here's a link to the blog of the suburban permaculture site I'm cocreating in California's San Francisco Bay Area:… Continue

Here's what we came up with from the last meeting. Some are big, some are small, but they're all there. Have a look and consider where you might like to put some time and energy....

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Dear All,

a big THANK YOU to everyone who participated (in particular to Julie H. who isn't even a permie...yet)
What an effort, everyone worked soo hard!!
And it looks fantastic. Also a big thank you to Loki for all your help and the worm farm for which I happened to be the lucky winner at our last meeting.
I'll keep you up-to-date with the progress.

The worm tunnel is a wonderful invention, so simple really and I can see it working very well.
Anyway when someone needs some buckets for it let… Continue

Hi all, the update of the huge 'lasagne' (compost):

We checked the temperature on Sunday morning and it was 3o degrees.....Sunday afternoon it was 44 degrees and today it is a HOT 60 degrees +.....we will be turning it into a 'spaghetti bolognese' on Wednesday and checking moisture levels....Successful so far!

A big thank you all that came to Jean-Luc's place today at Como........ The day was a success thanks to you! We'll keep you posted on 'temperature' and progress, with hopefully some photos..
Peace.
Matt x