While I’ve been up here I’ve been lucky enough to visit Gravel Hill Gardens a couple of times. It’s a community garden in Bendigo that has implemented a lot of permaculture features. There is a demonstration backyard mandala garden, garden beds for community groups, a chook system, a compost system, a green house and hot [...]
Last year I became what is sometimes termed an “ethical eater”. This means practically speaking that I am a vegetarian. However I will eat meat which has led a good life up until it’s death, and has had a quick and humane death. So I will eat meat from the farms I’m visiting for example. [...]
Yesterday I got to go on a tour arranged by students doing a PDC (Permaculture Design Course) run by my host. We visited two sites at Dunolly, one was a commercial herb farm where they grow herbs for teas mostly, the other was a private farm where the 80 year old owner has established an [...]
This is my second day at Heathcote, I got here on Friday night after catching the bus up from Ballarat. It’s fascinating here, the country looks quite inhospitable to me, very dry, mostly eucalypts and coffee bush, a native shrub that grows where the soil has been disturbed. They have a very productive veggie garden [...]