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25.01.2022 One of the underlying principles of Permaculture thinking is about taking control of our own lives, & most of us are at least at bit DIY ! Here's a Pizza Oven that is so easy to build at home, & then you can cook some of all that healthy produce out in the backyard of garden where you grew it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qno-XJwPKw

25.01.2022 When Industrial Ag fails, the traditional Chinampa systems return to their essential role as highly effective & sustainable food production systems. In Mexico City, the Coronavirus Is Bringing Back Aztec-Era ‘Floating Gardens’ Business is booming for farmers who plant on man-made islands. https://www.atlasobscura.com//mexico-city-chinampas-corona

22.01.2022 The Terra preta soil of the Amazon has amazing properties, which have been unravelled by soil scientists. The great news is that we can replicate it on our farms and in our gardens. "Terra preta is the Portuguese name of a type of soil which is thought to have almost miraculous properties. The newspapers are flooded with reports about black gold, scientists believe that two of the greatest problems facing the world climate change and the hunger crisis can be solved by... it. The beauty of it is that everyone can do something about it because since 2005 the secret of producing this black soil has been revealed and it is a secret that seemed to have been lost forever with the downfall of the once thriving Indian culture of the Amazon basin. The recipe is astonishingly simple as all you need are kitchen or garden wastes, charcoal and earthworms, so it can be produced on every balcony or on the smallest of garden plots. The authors set off on a treasure hunt and condensed all the knowledge about the world’s most fertile soil into a convenient guidebook. In addition to a sound instruction manual on producing terra preta and organic charcoal (biochar), the handbook covers fundamental principles from climate farming to closed-loop economy. It makes a passionate plea against synthetic fertilizers and genetic technology"

20.01.2022 A simple tyre pond helps the biodiversity of a garden

20.01.2022 An Alternative Life at Bungonia still has a couple of places available for this great workshop that will show you how to plan and design a food garden that will produce an abundance of healthy fruit and vegetable year round.

19.01.2022 The trials of the seeds-savers - Seeds review: A great podcast about seed-bank scientists under siege An excellent new podcast with Nina Sosanya sees food scientists in World War 2 Leningrad struggling against starvation and pseudoscience, and resonates for today's world New Scientist Humans 7 October 2020 By Bethan Ackerley Seeds - No Stone Theatre...Continue reading

19.01.2022 Covid19 is changing both our needs and perceptions, and the way we relate to the built environment. Some responses are redesign & repurposing inner city areas, & pushing some from the inner city to downshift to rural & regional areas.

18.01.2022 Gardening makes people happier than those that don't, and are basically the answer to society’s ills

18.01.2022 "Today, fewer than 100 mature pines are left in the wild." "But while rare in nature, our ongoing research with citizen scientists is finding Wollemi pines grow in backyards all over the world, in a range of environments, and this information can inform how we can protect them in the wild. " https://bit.ly/2AC7R2K #wollemipine #citizenscience

16.01.2022 How to use plants to turn your home into a green building (note not suitable for bushfire prone areas) Planting climbers like ivy can cover ugly walls, insulate your home and support local wildlife and keeping it under control is easier than you would think, writes Clare Wilson in New Scientist What you need An ivy plant...Continue reading

15.01.2022 The Australian House Building Industry are largely backwards-looking whingers, as Oz is at least 30 years behind the energy efficiency & sustainability standards of Europe & California. Governments need to grow a spine & give them a huge regulatory Wake the Hell Up and get in the 21st Century message. House buyers also need to change their thinking, from concerns about capital cost, to operating costs - "... in particular about the through-life affordability of owning a hom...e." It requires a shifting of language but also understanding, as well. It’s not all about the upfront cost, the upfront product, but how that house is going to perform in terms of maintenance, affordability, livability, says Moore. If you do it right, you can wind up with little or no energy bills. What you do with those savings could be quite significant. If you re-invest those savings back into your mortgage, for instance, you could pay off your home loan 3-5 years quicker. That’s tens of thousands of dollars in avoided interest savings. As well as health and wellbeing of living in a more thermally stable home. https://onestepoffthegrid.com.au/even-with-rooftop-solar-b/

14.01.2022 Industrial agriculture wiping out 50 billion years of evolution World's most unique animals in danger of being made extinct by "unprecedented levels of human pressure" from industrial activity such as agricultural expansion. Human activity - specifically late industrial capitalism - is putting more than 50 billion years of unique evolutionary history at risk, scientists have said. Researchers have warned some of the world's most unique animals, such as the punk-haired Mary Ri...Continue reading

14.01.2022 Co-founder of permaculture movement, David Holmgren is optimistic about future for Australians Holmgren describes himself as an environmental designer, author and futurist and in his latest book RetroSuburbia: the downshifter's guide to a resilient future, he shows Australians a more meaningful way of living, giving hope to the next generation. right click to download 16minute interview ... https://abcmedia.akamaized.net//aju-2021-05-07-david-holmg He is a keynote speaker at this years Renew Fest held at Mullumbimby this weekend. David spoke with Joanne Shoebridge about his book on how Australians can downshift and retrofit their homes, gardens, communities and how to creatively do more with less. https://www.abc.net.au//david-holmgren-co-founder/13333990

13.01.2022 April 25 years ago, Susan Antler of the Canada Composting Council started Compost Awareness week, Now an international event, the celebration helps us remember that it is upon the health of the soil that life depends. Here is the poster from that first event.

13.01.2022 National Reconciliation Week started yesterday, 27th May and runs till 3rd June. Reconciliation Australia is encouraging everyone to be part of launching the week by being part of a virtual Acknowledgement of Country, bringing the theme, In This Together to life. Reconciliation is a journey for all Australians as individuals, families, communities, organisations and importantly as a nation. At the heart of this journey are relationships between the broader Australian commun...ity and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. We all have a role to play when it comes to reconciliation, and in playing our part we collectively build relationships and communities that value Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, histories, cultures, and futures. Do you know who are the Traditional Owners of the land you are on? Residents of the Goulburn district are on the land of the Wiradjuri Nation

10.01.2022 These innovative seed cocoons help trees grow in the harshest climates Boosting seedling survival rates from 10% to at least 90%. For more on the Trillion Trees Challenge, visit UpLink: https://buff.ly/2O5nd3j

06.01.2022 Bumble Bees force plants to flower early by cutting holes in their leaves "Hungry bumblebees can coax plants into flowering and making pollen up to a month earlier than usual by punching holes in their leaves. Bees normally come out of hibernation in early spring to feast on the pollen of newly blooming flowers. However, they sometimes emerge too early and find that plants are still flowerless and devoid of pollen, which means the bees starve. Fortunately, bumblebees have a t...rick up their sleeves for when this happens. Consuelo De Moraes at ETH Zurich in Switzerland and her colleagues discovered that worker bumblebees can make plants flower earlier than normal by using their mouthparts to pierce small holes in leaves. Read more: Climate change is killing off bumblebees in Europe and North America In a series of laboratory and outdoor experiments, the researchers found that bumblebees were more likely to pierce holes in the leaves of tomato plants and black mustard plants when deprived of food. The leaf damage caused the tomato plants to flower 30 days earlier than usual and the black mustard plants to flower 16 days earlier. It is still a mystery how the leaf damage promotes early blooming. Previous studies have found that plants sometimes speed up their flowering in response to stressors like intense light and drought, but the effects of insect damage haven’t been studied much. De Moraes and her colleagues were unable to induce early flowering by punching holes in the plant leaves themselves. This suggests that bees may provide additional cues that encourage flowering, like injecting chemicals from their saliva into the leaves when they pierce them. We hope to explore this in future work, she says. Read more: Honeybees gang up to roast invading hornets alive at a terrible cost The ability of bumblebees to manipulate flowering times may help them to adapt to climate change, says Mark Mescher at ETH Zurich, who was also part of the study. Climate change is making spring conditions less predictable, which could disrupt the timing of the relationship between bees and flowers, he says. If this causes bumblebees to exit hibernation too early, they may be able to bring forward the flowering time of plants before they go hungry, he says. Journal reference: Science, DOI: 10.1126/science.aay0496 Alice Klein Bees force plants to flower early by cutting holes in their leaves via the app https://www.newscientist.com//2244009-bees-force-plants-t/

05.01.2022 "How does investing in the natural assets of a farm, like shelterbelts and farm dams, enable farmers to be more resilient in drought, while at the same time help to support the biodiversity on farms? If you've got 6 minutes... Check out this podcast https://www.sustainablefarms.org.au/node/206 ... With Professor David Lindenmayer (the Sustainable Farms Ecology Research Director) talking to Gordon Taylor about how farm dams can make a positive contribution to supporting both farm productivity and conservation outcomes. And remember Sustainable Farms are hosting a webinar on the 4th of June on Enhancing Farm Dams, to register follow link https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/farm-dam-enhancements-free- for details.

05.01.2022 Misogyny in town planning !?¿?! How urban planners' preference for male trees has made your hay fever worse Horticulturists urge better sex mix of city trees to mitigate rising asthma and CO2 pollution levels https://www.theguardian.com//how-urban-planners-preference

04.01.2022 Autumn in the Southern Hemisphere is a good time to plant trees and shrubs. But with bushfires on a fast rise with climate change, we need to be even more careful with our choices to reduce the flammability of our landscape design & plant selection. The Victorian Country Fire Authority has some great resources including a Plant Selection Key, & a series of PDFs on fire-resistant landscaping. https://www.cfa.vic.gov.au/plan-prepare/plant-selection-key https://www.cfa.vic.gov.au/plan-prepare/landscaping

03.01.2022 Most of us have a collection of smaller unused ceramic pots, as smaller pots get hot and dry out fast & can be a real challenge to use. Firstly use a ceramic spray sealer on the inside, a nice light tinted ceramic paint on the outside, and here's a top 10 herbs to plant in them. https://www.homestolove.co.nz//outdoors/top-10-potted-herbs

02.01.2022 Its mid spring in the Southern Tablelands of NSW, & a great time to plant vegies. You don't even have to buy seeds or seedlings if you recycle the right ends from fresh vegies, leafy greens & herbs used in the kitchen... https://www.ruralsprout.com/regrow-vegetables/

02.01.2022 Why 'Lazy' Lawn Mowers Are Heroes for Bees Long lawns are also great habitat for a range of other insects, and feed the pretty little insecivorous birds, and they catch more moisture and act as evaporative air conditioners, cooling the suburbs. "There's no shame in an unmowed lawn. Not only can wild yards and gardens look better than commonly believed, but cutting back on cutting grass can save significant time, energy and money. According to a new study, it could even help save bees. https://www.treehugger.com/lazy-lawn-mowers-bees-4867937