Why Aren’t You Blitzing?
It has been one hell of a couple of weeks. Our condolences to all who have suffered from the fires. With the devastating heat seemingly past, it seems time to rebuild and regrow for...
Author: Adam Grubb
The Beret and the Garden Fork
Welcome to a permablitz newsletter with courses, news on water restrictions, heroic tales and photos from past blitzes, more investment advice for troubled times and some profound prognostications on the nature of art and the art of gardening, starting with a relevant quote from an historically significant personality. Mmm… Intellectually enriching.
Vegetable News Alert: Ugly is the New Pretty
Welcome to another permablitz newsletter with a thick cream dollop of upcoming courses and blitzes, plus some wow-you-out-of-your-seat post-blitz photos, getting intimate with arthropods, a horticultural challenge to the US president-elect, and much more,...
What Food Should I Grow? Ask an Astronaut
Take off your shoes and slip your toes on into the info-chop-suey of this latest permablitz newsletter. We’ve got gardening advice from outer space, we’ve got mercenary microbes, we’ve got organics — macho style,...
Gardens: The Real Growth Economy
Ok, time to get ecological. In ecological terms the only real ‘primary producers’ are photosynthetic organisms — plants and algae. Ultimately our whole economy is powered by photosynthesis and the ancient sunlight captured by...
Save the Vegie Patch
Rejoice! For this permablitz newsletter is so pressurised with good news be careful how you open it lest you be left with optimistic grin splashed all over your face. Did you know home grown...
Get on the frontline. Of love.
The latest permablitz newsletter in which we’ve got the usual upcoming blitzes, courses and events, plus a report back from the if-we-may-say-so historical permablitz #50, “permablitz on the frontline” with David Holmgren, and a tasty and convenient...
David Holmgren: Thoughts on the eve of the 50th Permablitz
We’re honoured to have the following thoughts on permablitz from David Holmgren, co-originator of the permaculture concept. The political and environmental activism of the 1960’s & early 70’s focused on resisting injustice, environmental destruction...
Rob Hopkins: Out with the lawn and in with the salad!
50th well wishes from Transition Network orginator Rob Hopkins in the UK [For my money the Transition Network is the most exciting environmental movement in the world right now. It offers a permaculture inspired...
Permablitz Five-O
In this newsletter, we’ve got the details on the big blitz five-O, we’ve got a plethora of courses to announce, we’ve got a former AFL star turned minister for something at a recent permablitz,...
