Yesterday I wrote about the inside work done in permaculture zones. Today we're focusing on the principles of permaculture and how they...

Permaculture is a design system started in Australia, originally for permanent agriculture and homesteads, but now the principles have spre...

If you're living in Brisbane, keep in touch with Roman and Jana (West End) at their blog Spurtopia because they're doing free works...

I got some good news from Penguin yesterday. Down to Earth is being reprinted again. :- ) I've received many emails from people who ha...

We are the very happy owners of six new chickens. Kate from Beautiful Chickens brought them to us yesterday afternoon. We had the new wing ...

It's been a long, dry summer here. The temperatures haven't been nearly as high as those down south, we've had only two very ho...

Bread and butter cucumbers. Another week put to bed and now the weekend looms. I hope you take enough time over the next few days to r...

Hanno at the produce store. He's pointing out a little chicken tractor. The plan was to go out for lunch at the surf club and to ...

It's been quiet here lately. Sunny and Jamie are over in Korea visiting Sunny's family. It's a wonderful opportunity for Jamie ...

I want to let all my readers know that apart from occasionally linking to my sponsors, I never link to commercial sites. Never. I got an em...

I want to share a link to an interesting program that networks local growers and local food eaters together based on proximity. It's c...

We have friends visiting at the moment and have the joy of little feet in the house again. I hope you have joy in your life today as well. ...

I want to move our dependence further away from the shops and closer to food we grow ourselves or find locally. I am hoping to grow enough ...