After a huge amount of work along the creek over the last few months we welcomed our “Riparian Course” students for 5 days of participatory learning. What a group of inspirational people who want to look after riparian zones. Everyone had a relationship to a small area somewhere that they wanted to get to know better and help care for. […]
Another month on and the creek project has developed so much. This beautiful project is one that is attracting energy as it moves, when something feels right and the time is right so many things fall into place. Here’s an update on how things are coming along. While we spend more and more time in the Mokidup catchment creek that […]
The big project on the farm at the moment is to bring back to life the seasonal creek that passes through the property. The need to take care of Wadandi Boodja and part of the Mokidup catchment is foremost in our thoughts as we start this project. The reasons behind this project have been laid out in my previous post Our […]
Here we are at the beginning of April, we are usually sitting around a small campfire with the earth slowly softening and breathing around us as new shoots turn the paddocks green. This year we are watching swathes of native trees die and dams dry to boggy mud puddles, then disappear altogether. It’s something we have been talking about for […]
Birdlife at Fair Harvest Permaculture One of our favourite permaculture principles at Fair Harvest is to Use and Value Diversity. Maintaining lots of healthy bush areas and having lots of different plants in the garden attracts a wide variety of birds. These help us in so many ways – controlling bugs, pollinating plants, spreading seed and fertilising the soil. And […]
It’s ten years now since we opened the doors of Fair Harvest Permaculture, ten years of events and courses, community and food, yoga and art, farming and family. It’s been a huge ten years in which we have worked hard to create a business based in the things that we believe in…. We have expanded and renovated, built buildings using […]
Mature Eucalyptus and Acacia in a Permaculture system It doesn’t seem that long ago at all that we moved to the farm with a great enthusiasm for planting trees. The land had been cleared for pasture, the big trees were gone, the wind howled across the paddocks and we were young and full of enthusiasm. Fast growing Eastern States Acacia […]