Thomas Street Open Garden Sunday, May 7th

If you are in or near Melbourne, Australia on Sunday, May 7th, check out the Thomas Street open house.

Where: 16 Thomas Street, Clayton, Southeast Melbourne

When: Sunday May 7, 12 noon – 5pm

Entry: with (optional) donation.

Phone: 03 9029 2550

Email: broken

Web: broken

There will be:

• Garden tours
• Food stalls (including special treats from South America)
• An auction of wonderful wares and odd items
• Live music and poetry (if it's trumpet-playing, you are in for a treat)
• Displays
• Documentary screenings
• Talk on “The Living Soil: Making the Invisible Visible”
• Plants, seeds, and garden goodies for sale (donations of goods welcome)
• PermaSalsa – where permaculture gardening meets salsa dancing!

Cancerous growth

"The ultimate end to a growth economy is the same as an analogous growth: cancer. But for national economies, the victims are nature, soils, forests, people, water, and quality of life.

"There is one, and only one, solution, and we have almost no time to try it. We must turn all our resources to repairing the natural world, and train all our young people to help. They want to; we need to give them this last chance to create forests, soils, clean waters, clean energies, secure communities, stable regions, and to know how to do it from hands-on experience

- Bill Mollison

Save Thomas Street

The Thomas Street home of the Permaculture Solutions team is under attack.

Send them your ideas on how to defend the corner of paradise they've created.

Permaculture Solutions

Check out the new Permaculture Solutions site by some friends of mine. Very, very sleek!

Permaculture Solutions has burst onto the scene not only with the best designed permaculture site going; they also have a bright young team of designers who are set to make waves in Australian permaculture.

Barnes home rough draft.

My brother's home has been the first project I've worked on since I've arrived in Canada. The following is a rough draft of my design I'm recommending.

This first image shows the front yard. North is to the right and the yard is in shade until about 11am or noon.
















This image is taken from the house looking east towards the garage.

















This image is taken from the garage looking towards the house. An existing trellis with grape vines is visible on the right. The window will be equipped with a reflector to increase solar gain in the morning.















This image shows the rough draft for the front yard.












This is the rough draft for the back yard.