Hi there, if you hadn't already got the news I'm hanging around over at the Artist as Family blog  for the next year while we condu...

Packing up the house today. About to leave on a year's adventure . Dipping into old notebooks. Stopping on this page. From fifteen years...

During my doctoral research I got to know William Buckley pretty well. As I was scouring material on him a friend, Maya Ward , recommended ...

There has been a resurgence of thought about Aboriginal seasonality in these parts. My friend Tanya Loos recently launched in Daylesford her...

Publishers who understand ecological crises, monetary damage, and the imperatives of radical change. Publishers open to new models for huma...

For a while now I've wanted to make a boomerang. A recent trip to Gariwerd became the perfect time to do it. I took a few basic tools ...

Zeph and I joined the Victorian home educators  camp at Halls Gap in the Grampians this week. We came with a community friend Gabe and the t...

There is a colourful stoush going on at Overland about: PLAGIARISM:– More virulent than MODERNISM More critical than POST–MODERNISM Re...

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...