I've been in Hobart for twelve days staying with my friend Glen , attempting to put together a first draft of all the chapters I've ...

Our band played last night and I had the pleasure of singing Blake's The Fly (1794), which I set to music a little while ago. Bunch ...

Image: EcoWatch.org Published on Thursday, April 5, 2012 by Common Dreams USGS: Recent Earthquakes 'Almost Certainly Manma...

Jaara elder Uncle Brien Nelson and his partner Jude Perry welcomed Zeph and I into their home last week to WWOOF. Early on the first day w...

My permaculture poem Step by Step was yesterday awarded joint runner-up in the 2011  Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize. Today I recorded...

This poem traces thoughts and feelings from the so-called 'late' birth of my son ten years ago to the expected birth of my second ch...

Milkwood Permaculture co-founder, Nick Ritar, puts together a well-structured argument to help fight human complacency, idiocy and anxiety ...

Hepburn Relocalisation Network and Sustainable Hepburn Association ( SHARE ) last night hosted Canadian speaker Nicole Foss . A theorist an...

Here's a short documentation of my first day's walk through Jaara country to take a traditional Aboriginal weaving workshop and meet...

Coca Cola takes a lot from my local region . It sucks Dja Dja Wurrung groundwater from the ecosystem, trucks it to a Melbourne factory wher...

Your mother is pure Black     happy forever with the Water Hen Lionel Fogarty Ruby Dilli (Eyes) Southerly (Vol 71 No 2) 2011 p124 Ther...

Peter Yencken and I today returned from taking 8 homeschoolers out into the bush for the first of what we hope will be many Black Cockatoo ...

I wrote this nutty lil' ditty for my girl's birthday today. Happy Birthday Meg! Perfect Fruit

My friend Peter Tyndall sent a number of us this little gem this morning: Australia's day of monetary destitution cometh. Be prepar...

Daylesford Community Food Gardeners had a big day yesterday of multiple events to do with transition, gardening, music and global ecologica...

My friend Peter Yencken and I are just about to take 10 children out into the bush for 4 days and 3 nights to teach them what we know about ...

We've just had a trip to Sydney where we visited friends and family and spent two days at the Food Forest with locals pruning, planting...

The story of Daylesford Community Food Gardeners first nine months demonstrating how a guerilla action at one garden developed into three ...

I've been at an advanced permaculture course with David Holmgren and today we unpacked, critiqued and revalued his 12 principles. Here...

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As Summer approaches  Artist as Family have been busy  auditing Melbourne's drinking fountains . Click for bigger.