Permabee in Altona Meadows
On Sunday 31st May, participants from Hobsons Bay’s My Smart Garden program met at Anne and Lily’s house in Altona Meadows to blitz it – permaculture style! We pruned, sheet mulched to control grass,...
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Practical Self Sufficiency competition winner announced
A big congratulations to Gladys for her competition-winning photo below. We received some cracking good photos from the blitzers out there – great to see so much food passion! Gladys is only 9, but...
New team member wanted!
We currently have an opening within the Permablitz Collective for an Internal Coordinator. Basically this is the position that makes blitzes happen! You will manage communication between hosts and designers to set up blitzes...
It’s competition time!
Thanks to the generosity of Permablitz Designer Guild member Terry, we have a copy of the book “Practical Self Sufficiency – an Australian guide to sustainable living” to give away. To win, just send...
Bending the 3 Blitz Rule
In the Get Blitzed section, we say you need to participate in three permablitzes before you qualify to host your own. Sometimes three is a lot. To keep blitzes happening, we are bending the rules a...
Permablitz picnic/pruning party
The grey skies disappeared and the sun shone down on the West Brunswick Food Forest just in time for our Saturday afternoon picnic. The picnic was a chance for Permablitz peeps to meet or...
We Want YOU (and your camera & pen)
Fancy being a Permablitz documentor? If you enjoy taking photos and can string together a sentence or two, we’d love to hear from you! We try to document every blitz for posterity and so...
2013 Permaculture Calendar
A plug for our friends who produce the excellent Permaculture Calendar: Organise your life and share your schedule with this lovely, deceptively simple but thought-provoking, calendar in your home or workplace. It’s filled with...
Goths in the Garden
[ After we made some reference to the apparent incompatibility of permablitzing and goth culture in a recent newsletter we received several responses from some wonderful ecologically-minded goths, who are involved in activities such as permaculture,...
