So I’ve been busy launching and working with my friends Dan, Paul and Nathe on our new business: Very Edible Gardens (VEG).  Dan is the founder of permablitz and Paul has designed more properties for blitzes than anyone else, and Nath has been into permaculture since the early 90s.  We’re running courses, doing consultancies and [...]

Eat the Suburbs: Gardening for the End of the Oil Age
A film by Tanya Curnow, 2006.
EAT THE SUBURBS takes the oil debate from the bowser to the backyard and follows Melbourne’s “permablitzers” as they prepare for the end of the oil age… one garden at a time.

Made 2006 but online for the first time now. [...]

The more I do face to face work, facilitating courses and permablitzes and working outside, the less time I find to update this blog, and while I regret that, damn do I feel lucky to be surrounded by so much generosity and eagerness to learn and share out there in the unpixelated world.  [...]

Crikey, the popular online politics magazine is running a series on oil futures, and I was the first interviewee.

Last month I posted a house-wanted notice, in which the deal would be that I would help develop a permaculture oasis as my rent. I was overwhelmed with responses, over 15, most of them very tempting.

I’m putting it out there that I want to live in someone’s house for the next year and develop a demonstration permaculture garden so as to live rent free and have something to show for it. Below’s my ad as posted on permablitz.net:

Another bloody brilliant article in today’s edition of The Age newspaper by Katherine Kizilos summing up many of the arguments for urban food production, with an emphasis on water saving.

The following article appeared in today’s edition of The Age, (the day’s 5th most popular article!) outlining the argument for why there should be water restriction exemptions for home food growers in Victoria. It’s a good article, big kudos to Marika and the reporter Denise Gadd, for pointing out such absurdities as the fact [...]

Back in 2004 I interviewed permaculture co-originator David Holmgren about a whole manner of things relating to peak oil and permaculture. This was before the release of the breakthrough peak oil documentary The End of Suburbia: Oil [...]

Over at The Age newspaper, feature writer Katherine Kizilos has been writing an excellent series of articles relating to urban food production, with many friends of Eat the Suburbs featured — even myself today, in an article about urban weed foraging. This is a compilation of some of Katherine’s recent great efforts.