Taking our eleven year old, Zephyr, out of school has been a long-awaited blessing and I'm slowly developing a teaching method which is ...

Numerous birds come into our garden and share the bounties there. Some are rare and singular, others in great numbers come daily. Occassion...

Fifteen of us walked out from the Daylesford Neighbourhood Centre today for one of my four hour foraging workshops, bracing winter's co...

Almost two years ago Zeph and I went out with a bow-making friend, Peter Yencken, in search of suitable bow timber. Peter had previously tau...

Appropriate technology is an ideological movement that encompasses technological choice and application that is 'small-scale, decentral...

Last Saturday a neighbour asked me to identify a mushroom. He thought it was a Swiss Brown ( Agaricus bisporus ) and wanted me to confirm it...

plough (agriculture) > 10000 < hierarchy (debt) > 5000 < literacy (industrialisation) > 300 < skyscr...

University of California at Davis (Photo: Louise Macabitas) Rio (Photo: Victor Caivano) Istanbul (Screenshot via Osman Orsal /YouT...

I've extended my foraging classes indefinitely through the Daylesford Neighbourhood Centre . But I will also travel to take them in your...

My  MFU lecture given last night, as part of the series  All creatures great and small: Animals and us .

Benjamin Laird's excellent trek through various zones of my poetical biota.

Last Saturday morning I was woken by an ABC radio producer and a minute later I was on air spruiking for a series of lectures on animals tha...

Today I took the first group out for a new season of foraging walks around Daylesford. We identified about thirty-five edible plants and a f...

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...