Sustainability Festival

Cowes Sustainability Festival was successful,

we presented a thingo on transition towns, 5 attendees, thankyou to those people!,

thankfully the stall was more of a success and it was a great day of networking and partenership building all in the name of rebuilding a carbon free future.

Good times had by all!

Southern Cross Permaculture Visit

Visited Rick and Naomi's place today,

it's always great to checkout the property and what they have achieved,

We got some great tips on wicking garden bed design, discussed the yr 9 environment center options for permaculture type development and had a mini tour of the site.

A good link was Balnaring Primary School (http://www.balnarringps.vic.edu.au/) which is a Carbon Neutral School and has won all sorts of Sustainability Awards.

Rick has identified Phillip Island as being a good target for Transition because it is a defined land area and has quite a proactive community.

Rick is going OS to Mongolia next week to work on some permaculture aid projects and then back again in August. We will be charting his progress via a blog

On his return we will follow up by arranging for him to visit the Yr 9 center to deliver a talk and to help us out with some design work on the site. He will also be able to assist us with obtaining fruit trees to stock out urban permaculture orchid.

here are some shots of his polytunnel and wicking garden bed designs.

Notice the Tomatoes, still around!

Leesh Holding a Babaco - excellent Juice!

IBIS GARDEN PROJECT

Just back from IBIS,

After a poor response to my proposal for a integrated kitchen garden I have pulled the pin on trying to integrate this and will now focus on developing permaculture elements within the backyards of the surrounding staff houses.

The two elements we'll start with is a herb spiral and a mandala / wicking garden bed design,

stay tuned for more details.

The IBIS GARDEN PROPOSAL it is in the format of a SWOT analysis which I think works well (Stengths, Weaknesses, Opportunites, Threats)

PERMABLITZ THE WORLD - AJ