My supervisor/editor, Kate Fagan, received today the first draft of my manuscript  Walking for Food: Regaining Permapoesis . After three and...

Artist as Family  are planning to walk to Melbourne from our home in Jaara country and we wish to do this respectfully acknowledging the el...

Edible forest gardener and permaculturalist, Dave Jacke , came to Daylesford for a brief talk last Wednesday while touring the country givin...

Poster by Ian Robertson Dave Jacke, author of  Edible Forest Gardens , is coming to Daylesford to speak on Wednesday March 13. Jacke ...

Melbourne poet ∏.O. reads one of his poems from  Rabbit journal #7 the Sound issue at Embiggen Books last Tuesday.  ∏.O. an...

A new chapbook of mostly Australian poetry, Wandering through the Universal Archive , has just appeared online curated by poet Fiona Hile. T...

We haven't been able to stay away from the Victorian coast this summer and so we've had to find out a little more about the edibl...

We've just returned from a week's camping at the beach  on the Bellarine Peninsula. Bellarine comes from the Bengalit (clan of the W...

The political Right of the Australian media like their heroes to be in neat uniforms; preferably in sports or military ones. When a hero is ...

Photograph by Nicholas Walton-Healey Photograph by  Nicholas Walton-Healey

A number of us have been working on developing the fifth community food garden, the Daylesford Secondary College Food Forest, since June t...

I thought I was clever coming up with the term 'ecozen' today to describe a participant or player within an ecology, but a quick sea...

A new site for Jaara people (Dja Dja Wurrung)  is now online and the traditional owners are presenting some great information and short vide...

A reading with Les Murray in Melbourne yesterday took me back to an afternoon in my youth where I came home from school to find a large poet...

Over the last month, while ima Meg recuperates from long nights of breast feeding, Woody, Zero, (sometimes Zeph) and I, dada , have gone ou...

A recipe-poem in action (with a mini manifesto).

Much respect to this incredible community .

Here's the latest: In California right now , due to twenty years of GMO ill health in the US, people are demanding their food is la...

A Hardee's and a Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) fast food outlet burns after protesters set the building on fire in Tripoli, northern Le...

From Radio National's Off Track programme: So far, the Permeate series has focused on artists who are inspired by the environment. ...

How permaculture and non-monetary economies are part of the solution to the problem of capitalism. Feature article by Patrick Jones in Aren...

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...

For once I'm on the right...

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