Permablitzing in Pip Magazine!
Pip Magazine has been spreading the good word of permaculture across Australia since 2017, and we’ve been following them every step of the way.
Category: Media
Permablitz on Gardening Australia!
Hannah from Good Life Permaculture showed Australia on Gardening Australia what a permablitz is all about, and we reckon she smashed it!
Costa Georgiadis urges a local focus in Blitzin’ the Border permablitz plan
“Just going and introducing yourself to two other people here today is more valuable than anything I can say.”
How to grow 300kg of veg in the ‘burbs
Permablitz’s very own Kat Lavers has recently won the Home and Garden category in local Sustainability Awards. She built the garden, nicknamed The Plummery, due to her love of fresh food and said its success was based on its permaculture design which uses minimal resources for growing produce.
Permablitzin’ on Radio National
Last weekend three Permablitz organisers from across Australia joined Radio National’s Michael Williams on Blueprint for Living, where we spoke about what exactly a Permablitz is.
Alta Vista neighborhood gets a new food forest
San Antonio recently enjoyed a permablitz in which a food forest was created. “People are just amazing when they work together, you can just get so much done in a short time. It’s transformed!”
Kat says quails are grouse, tips them to top chooks in backyard pecking order
The Permablitz Collective’s very own Kat Lavers has recently adopted a small flock of quails – are she has completely and utterly fallen in love with them.
Eka forages for PIP!
Eka of the Permablitz Collective is an urban forager. She wants to show people how they can maintain a normal lifestyle with a nine-to-five job and still lead a secret life as a forager. (As originally published in Pip Magazine #6)
Rental House Cornucopia
Some households fight over who has to mow the lawn, but it’s happily all hands on deck for a share house of green thumbs in the Melbourne suburb of Elsternwick. Housemates Laura, Hermann, Harriet, Henry and Matt have created a thriving and productive garden in their rental home, establishing an apiary, a chook run and aquaponics system.
Eating the Suburbs, One Backyard at a Time
So can we make the suburbs edible again? Permablitz networks around the country are showing that we can, one backyard at a time. The Permablitz concept combines physical outcomes with social outcomes.
