On my forty-second birthday my second son Blackwood came into our world. One of the many pleasures this week has been watching Zeph and Wood...

In April 2012, in conjunction with Fungimap , the inaugural Australian Fungi Festival was held in Hobart. Here is the audio of the debate, E...

so much depends upon  a red wheel barrow  glazed with rain water  beside the white chickens  William Carlos Williams Spring and All 192...

8.50am 5:25pm A day of pleasure harvesting potatoes, carrots, beetroots, leeks, cauliflower, broccoli, spinach, Jerusalem artichokes...

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I walked along Diamond Creek from Eltham Station on my way to Montsalvat late yesterday afternoon to listen to Vandana Shiva. Gertrude Stein...

Let's not beat about the bush, gold mining is an activity of industrial pollution. Fight for what brings love and against that whi...

Working on some energy descent era technics today building a crate to go on a bike trailer that fellow bike nut Andy (Mechanarchy) did up f...

I took a short break from my writing today and wandered up to visit Zeph at his new cubby in the bush. On the way there I collected som...

The first installment of the Permeate series . Throughout the year, Miyuki Jokiranta will bring us the stories of artists who draw insp...

I gave a presentation on ecological and community food systems at RMIT a little while ago, invited by Juliette Anich  who takes a pretty int...

Two friends of mine and I have been working on establishing an ecological business, A Forest Camp , for adults, family groups, businesses a...

I wrote this poem and took the footage roughly a year ago when in Mole Creek (Tasmania) visiting family. I finished editing it yesterday. En...

Two new friends that I met through the community gardens , Dave and Doug (and Doug's lovely son Malachi), came out foraging with me yest...

A drawing I finished today... Click for bigger Read more .

I walked for two hours today with my mushroom brush, Zero (Jack Russell) and an empty basket, hiking through various types of forest from e...

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...