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24.01.2022 Good Morning Everyone, I am writing to let you know that we have decided, given the current situation with the corona virus, to postpone the APC until next year. So instead of April 2020, we are looking at APC 2021. We have been looking at and taking advice from Local, State and federal level as well as other considerations and for peoples safety have thought this the best option.... The event will still go ahead and the added 12 months will allow us to further fine tune what is happening to create something that hopefully be bigger and better. We look forward to seeing everyone in 2021.. Stay safe everyone

23.01.2022 Post APC Course: Deep Adaption and Cultural Regeneration Social Permaculture 3-day Social Permaculture Retreat with Starhawk and Robyn Francis April 25-27 Deep Adaption and Cultural Regeneration for Social and Climate Change... https://permaculture.com.au//deep-adaption-and-cultural-r/ The APC runs from the 20-23rd April at Camp Kindilan, Redland Bay, Queensland. Tickets can be purchased at http://eventbrite.com.au/e/63039106665 and start at $130 for a single day including all meals and refreshments.

21.01.2022 We have had a number of emails and phone calls about the potential of the Corona Virus outbreak. We have been keeping a very close eye on the federal and state reports with regards to the health alert. The APC 2020 is still going ahead and for those interested in learning more please follow the website below. We look forward to seeing everyone at the APC :) https://www.health.gov.au//novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov-hea

21.01.2022 Workshop Speaker: Rowe Morrow Permaculture for Refugees Wednesday W2 Together with Permaculture for Refugees team members Rowe will present on the realities of working and teaching in refugee camps and disaster areas. Participant activities will imagine the experiences of survivors and displaced people, immediate responses, and permaculture-informed designs for new camps and retrofits of existing ones. Contexts will cover a range of circumstances including bushfire, inundat...ion and war. Participants will be invited to contribute real solutions to such increasingly prevalent situations. Rowe Morrow is an author and permaculture elder who has worked and taught around the world for over thirty years. Her current focus is on P4R (Permaculture for Refugees) and permaculture-based prevention of, and responses to, disasters. She is currently working with other permies who have experience in refugee camps and disaster zones to develop strategies for permaculture-based projects and teaching in these contexts. The APC runs from the 20-23rd April at Camp Kindilan, Redland Bay, Queensland. Tickets can be purchased at http://eventbrite.com.au/e/63039106665 and start at $130 for a single day including all meals and refreshments.

20.01.2022 And we are live! Bookings and website now up and running for the 2020 Australasian Permaculture Convergence in Qld, coordinated by Northey Street City Farm - yeah! Check out the link here for more info: https://apc.nscf.org.au/

20.01.2022 APC Speakers - Bunya Halasz Successional Agroforestry an Exploration of Humid Tropical and Subtropical Systems Monday W2 In this workshop Bunya will offer a brief overview of Successional Agroforestry as practiced in the humid tropics and subtropics, followed by a slide show of projects in Northern Rivers NSW where they are working with these practices. From here he intends to call upon the experiences of the group, particularly those from Arid/Temperate/Mediterranean cli...mates, as to the relevance of the techniques shared from Humid Tropical regions to their own climatic conditions to help to formulate some adaptations of these concepts to different geographical areas. Bunya Halasz is a farmer, life-long gardener and lover of nature. He is inspired by cultures that continue to evolve creative practices of sustaining their material needs in a manner that demonstrates deep reverence for their natural environment and all of its life forms. Through the lenses of Permaculture, Regenerative Agroecology and Successional Agroforestry, Bunya works as a designer, educator and gardening mentor. His work supports individuals and communities to grow food, fuel and fiber within ecologically regenerative systems as well as facilitating pathways of knowledge and skill sharing through courses and traineeships. He also just gets in there and loves to Plant Trees! Bunya really just wishes that people were as easy to understand as plants. His journey is to help re-weave us human creatures, disconnected through the dramas of modern human existence, back into harmony with the rich tapestry of life from which we have arisen. The APC runs from the 20-23rd April at Camp Kindilan, Redland Bay, Queensland. Tickets can be purchased at http://eventbrite.com.au/e/63039106665 and start at $130 for a single day including all meals and refreshments.

18.01.2022 Want to present at the 2020 Australasian Permaculture Convergence? Applications for 90 minute and 10 minute Applications are open now and close at the end of October. Be a part of this incredible event! https://www.nscf.org.au/call-out-for-australasian-permacu/

14.01.2022 Earlybird Price for Permaculture Design Course extended to 20th March 2020 Our PDC is up and happening in March which we are super excited about. We have decide...d that to allow people who may be just settling back into their life post fires (as we are ) to participate we are extending the earlybird price for the duration of the booking period. This course supports local small business operators including The Crossing Land Education Trust, local food producers and teachers from the South Coast. Please share if possible https://www.permaculturedesign.com.au/permaculture-design-c

10.01.2022 Workshop presenter and Guru - Megan McGowan Permaculturing our Permaculture: A case study Wednesday W2 Permacoach, Meg McGowan is a permaculture designer living on the NSW Central Coast. Meg started practicing permaculture in her early 20’s and now writes, cartoons, designs and teaches with her husband, Graham King, while managing their 3.5 acre permaculture property.... The title of this workshop was inspired by the feedback of one of their students; You permaculture your permaculture. Meg and Graham have developed a number of innovative ways to live, teach and design with permaculture, and Meg will provide an overview of some of these, including: Permashare: Making permaculture courses accessible to those with limited income Permacoach: A hub for local designers and a new model for teaching The Matcham Holgate Produce Share: A redesigned version of the Produce Swap model (developed in collaboration with Kerrie Anderson and local community members) The Matcham Holgate Community Page: Using social media to effectively share permaculture and build community Innovations in training: Meg is constantly seeking to find better ways to teach permaculture and to ensure that students experience living examples of the core ethics. She will gift participants with an interactive game using a macro pattern she developed to make learning and remembering the permaculture ethics and principles easier for students. The APC runs from the 20-23rd April at Camp Kindilan, Redland Bay, Queensland. Tickets can be purchased at http://eventbrite.com.au/e/63039106665 and start at $130 for a single day including all meals and refreshments.

10.01.2022 Workshop presenters: Tim Barker Appropriate Technology for Resilience In this workshop Tim will show you how by using simple technologies you can build a more resilient and connected life while using less energy. You will come away with a new understanding of energy and how to harness the power of the sun and wood combustion to heat homes, cook and dry food and heat water.... Tim is a perennially ash and grease stained appropriate technology tinkerer with a professional mechanical background. A long time Permaculture practitioner, in the past he has worked at The Permaculture Research Institute Australia as farm manager and teacher; with the the Koanga Institute(PRI) in NZ; Paul Wheaton’s rocket mass innovators events in the US; and with long-time friends the crew at Very Edible Gardens (VEG) in Melbourne where he teaches two or three times a year. More recently he has begun teaching the Appropriate Technology section of the Northey Street City Farm’s thrice yearly PDC. He has a dual Permaculture diploma in Appropriate technology and teaching with a specialty in efficient wood combustion. He has also written the Ebook The Rocket Powered Oven, a step by step guide to building your own super-efficient wood powered oven.

10.01.2022 APC 2020 Workshop facilitators - Emma Brindal Fostering Earth Care in folks of all ages Wednesday W2 Drawing on ideas and principles of ecological education, place-based education and deep ecology, this workshop will provide participants with practical suggestions for experiential activities that lead to an understanding of our interdependence with all of life, a deeper connection to the places we live in, and a sense of responsibility to care for them. There will be a key... focus on the core routines of nature connection as articulated by the 8 Shields Institute, and the facilitator’s experiences of using these routines in a range of programs that she has run. Participants will also be invited to reflect on and share their own experiences and inspiration with each other. Emma Brindal is the Youth Education Coordinator at Northey Street City Farm, where she runs permaculture and sustainability activities and programs for children and adults. She is also the founder of WiseEarth Education and has been teaching and facilitating experiential learning and environmental education programs for over a decade The APC runs from the 20-23rd April at Camp Kindilan, Redland Bay, Queensland. Tickets can be purchased at http://eventbrite.com.au/e/63039106665 and start at $130 for a single day including all meals and refreshments.

10.01.2022 Key Note Speaker - Stuart Andrews Stuart Andrews is a farmer who has dedicated over 30 years of his life to understanding, practicing and teaching land rehabilitation techniques. Stuart was raised on the 1500 acre property Tarwyn Park, Bylong, the celebrated home of Natural Sequence Farming (NSF), pioneered by his father Peter Andrews. Stuart has been involved in public education through field days at Tarwyn Park as well as QLD, NSW, VIC and the ACT. As director of Tarwyn P...ark Training he has educated many landholders in NSF since 2012. Stuart’s property Riverside in Kybong marries NSF with other tried and tested models of regenerative agriculture. This trial is intended to establish a model of land rehabilitation that can be scaled up from very small blocks to large acreages, while also allowing the farmer to derive an income from the land. This trial builds upon Stuart’s extensive knowledge of environmentally beneficial farming practices, reflects his commitment to sharing knowledge with others and is guided by models of sustainable agriculture that have been highly successful elsewhere in the world. The APC runs from the 20-23rd April at Camp Kindilan, Redland Bay, Queensland. Tickets can be purchased at http://eventbrite.com.au/e/63039106665 and start at $130 for a single day including all meals and refreshments.

09.01.2022 One of our Keynopte Speakers for the APC2020 - Starhawk Starhawk is a permaculture designer, teacher, and founder of Earth Activist Training, which teaches regenerative design with a grounding in spirit and a focus on organizing and activism. She is the author of thirteen books on earth based spirituality and activism, including The Spiral Dance, The Earth Path, and The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups, on group dynamics and social permaculture. Her per...maculture novels, The Fifth Sacred Thing and City of Refuge. Together with director Donna Read Cooper, she has worked on five major documentaries, including the Goddess Trilogy for the National Film Board of Canada and Permaculture: The Growing Edge. Starhawk holds a double diploma in design and teaching from the Permaculture Institute of North America. She presently directs Earth Activist Training, teaches internationally, and is a voice for incorporating Social Permaculture into our movement and trainings. She is an experienced permaculture designer and teacher, and is developing a model of permaculture ranching at her Golden Rabbit Ranch. See more

09.01.2022 Only a couple of months left before the APC. Super exciting and going to be awesome. We understand people are keen to learn about the site where it is going to be held, but rather than calling them if you please direct all enquiries to the organisers as we are more than happy to help. Thank you and look forward to seeing you there!

07.01.2022 Come Join Robin Clayfield at this amazing Pre APC course event. Over 5 days Robin will share her wisdom and accumulated knowledge in her Dynamic Groups, Dynamic Learning course: Teachers & Facilitators Course. Seriously not to be missed https://www.facebook.com/events/418732875481579/

06.01.2022 APC 2020 KEYNOTE SPEAKER - STUART ANDREWS Stuart Andrews is a farmer who has dedicated over 30 years of his life to understanding, practicing and teaching land rehabilitation techniques. Stuart was raised on the 1500 acre property Tarwyn Park, Bylong, the celebrated home of Natural Sequence Farming (NSF), pioneered by his father Peter Andrews. Stuart has been involved in public education through field days at Tarwyn Park as well as QLD, NSW, VIC and the ACT. As director of ...Tarwyn Park Training he has educated many landholders in NSF since 2012. Stuart’s property Riverside in Kybong marries NSF with other tried and tested models of regenerative agriculture. This trial is intended to establish a model of land rehabilitation that can be scaled up from very small blocks to large acreages, while also allowing the farmer to derive an income from the land. This trial builds upon Stuart’s extensive knowledge of environmentally beneficial farming practices, reflects his commitment to sharing knowledge with others and is guided by models of sustainable agriculture that have been highly successful elsewhere in the world.

04.01.2022 Pre APC event: Formidable Vegetable Dance Party at Crystal Waters Permaculture EcoVillage with full band (Charlie Mgee, Mal Webb and Kylie Morrigan). https://www.facebook.com/events/129345888367274/

03.01.2022 The program for the APC 2020 is now up and live.. this is going to be just awesome! https://apc.nscf.org.au/apc-programme/

02.01.2022 There are some amazing tours both Pre and Post Apc.. Check them out! https://apc.nscf.org.au/tours-courses/tours/ The APC runs from the 20-23rd April at Camp Kindilan, Redland Bay, Queensland. Tickets can be purchased at http://eventbrite.com.au/e/63039106665 and start at $130 for a single day including all meals and refreshments.

01.01.2022 Keynote Speaker - Robyn Francis Robyn Francis, permaculture pioneer, educator, designer and innovator has been a passionate advocate of Permaculture since 1983. Founder of Permaculture International Ltd (now PA), Permaculture College Australia, editor of the Permaculture International Journal, designer of NSW’s first ecovillage (Jarlanbah), co-initiator of the Accredited Permaculture Training and key influence of the permaculture movement in China, she balances international... work with direct action in her local community and bioregion. Since 1994 she is based at Djanbung Gardens, purpose-designed Permaculture training centre in the lush subtropics of NSW, Australia. Robyn is passionate about social permaculture, practical self-reliance and empowering people as agents of change. She enjoys gardening and is a singer/songwriter and composer of luscious ambient music. www.permaculture.com.au Fair Share in the Anthropocene The third ethic takes on increasing significance as we approach irreversible climate and ecological tipping points and new levels of intergenerational theft. This presentation explores the third ethic implications of limits to growth and consumption and the individual and collective responsibility to live within our ecological footprint. Fair Share is the ethic that underpins the design of our invisible structures, the socio-economic and legal frameworks that facilitate appropriate action towards earth care and people care in the Anthropocene.