Urban Vigilante Gardens, Pothole Gardens, and so on…
What is it about Guerrilla Gardening? No matter how many times you see it happen, or hear about a new verge planting, it’s always exciting. Is it the fact that growing tomatoes is actually that...
View ArticleHappy Earth’s ‘Grow Local’ Illawarra Edible Garden Guide
Happy Earth are a great little crew down in Wollongong, proving that you can create an abundant urban homestead. And they’re just created a really awesome community resource in the form of this garden...
View ArticleTwo weeks of Urban Permaculture, in pictures…
Right now Nick’s in the the middle of teaching Milkwood Permaculture’s annual summer Urban Permaculture Design Certificate in Sydney, which is always a fabulous two weeks. This year, we have the...
View ArticleUrban PDC: strawberries, soil and systems thinking
More beautiful shots by Cathy X from our current Urban Permaculture Design Certificate that Nick is teaching in Sydney. Featuring Michele Margolis’ amazing urban permaculture garden, Adam Grubb...
View Article2 weeks in the life of a Permaculture Design student (video)
So here we have it – two weeks of our recent urban Permaculture Design Certificate, in 160 seconds! And what an amazing two weeks of learning and thinking and designing and digging and tasting and...
View ArticleVisiting Happy Earth, a kick-ass suburban food forest garden…
Recently Nick + I went to visit Ally and Rich (aka Happy Earth) who have created a truly amazing food forest garden in their suburban lot near Wollongong, NSW. It is a beautiful place of lushness,...
View ArticleLatest student urban permaculture designs
The latest batch of Milkwood permaculture design students are currently hard at it in Sydney, taking their Permaculture Design Certificate part-time with the fabulous Alexia Martinez. I thought I’d...
View ArticleBuilding an earthbag wicking bed garden…
Earthbags are a great idea for building raised garden bed surrounds because of their simplicity and their strength. Recently Nick led a community workshop to transform a townhouse patio into an edible...
View ArticleA whole street of Verge Gardens!
Wilga Avenue in Sydney has moved their community out of their backyards and into their front yards. Squished between a busy road and a train line, it wouldn’t look very illustrious on a map, but once I...
View ArticleCosta’s Verge Garden
Following on from a whole street of verge gardens is another verge garden in Sydney that is using verge plantings as a great way of cultivating community. Costa and his verge needs little introduction,...
View ArticleEcoPOP – cooling Sydney’s streets…
An ecoPOP is a small and self-contained city oasis, boasting a simple, self-contained system of self-watering fruit trees, herbs, water collection and a worm farm. Intended to be installed in places...
View ArticleA DIY vertical garden
No room to grow? Your options for vertical gardens are expanding by the day. Some are big, and some are small, some blend in, and some stand out. Like this one. Here’s a funky little home growing...
View ArticleTwo weeks of Urban Permaculture, in pictures…
Right now Nick’s in the the middle of teaching Milkwood Permaculture’s annual summer Urban Permaculture Design Certificate in Sydney, which is always a fabulous two weeks. This year, we have the...
View ArticleUrban PDC: strawberries, soil and systems thinking
More beautiful shots by Cathy X from our current Urban Permaculture Design Certificate that Nick is teaching in Sydney. Featuring Michele Margolis’ amazing urban permaculture garden, Adam Grubb...
View Article2 weeks in the life of a Permaculture Design student (video)
x http://youtu.be/4xjHZmmGDKE So here we have it – two weeks of our recent urban Permaculture Design Certificate, in 160 seconds! And what an amazing two weeks of learning and thinking and designing...
View ArticleVisiting Happy Earth, a kick-ass suburban food forest garden…
Recently Nick + I went to visit Ally and Rich (aka Happy Earth) who have created a truly amazing food forest garden in their suburban lot near Wollongong, NSW. It is a beautiful place of lushness,...
View ArticleLatest student urban permaculture designs
The latest batch of Milkwood permaculture design students are currently hard at it in Sydney, taking their Permaculture Design Certificate part-time with the fabulous Alexia Martinez. I thought I’d...
View ArticleBuilding an earthbag wicking bed garden…
Earthbags are a great idea for building raised garden bed surrounds because of their simplicity and their strength. Recently Nick led a community workshop to transform a townhouse patio into an edible...
View ArticleA whole street of Verge Gardens!
Wilga Avenue in Sydney has moved their community out of their backyards and into their front yards. Squished between a busy road and a train line, it wouldn’t look very illustrious on a map, but once...
View ArticleCosta’s Verge Garden
Following on from a whole street of verge gardens is another verge garden in Sydney that is using verge plantings as a great way of cultivating community. Costa and his verge needs little...
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