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Category Archives: Use & Value Renewable Resources & Services
Macrozamia riedlei
Google Maps won’t show you a birds eye view of the bushland that was once Joondalup. What is today a northern suburbs metropolis of Perth, was once coastal woodland quite typical of the Swan Coastal Plain. This is how I … Continue reading
Green Keeping
I have been known to clean up the local park of fallen branches, palm fronds and tree limbs. These get mulched and put into the garden. Sometimes I have assistance in the matter. Sometimes I go on alone. I figure … Continue reading
Spring Morning
I was out into the garden just after five am. There was a gentle light, but a warmness to the air. Their was barely any dew on the grass. The garden was fresh, but comfortably warm and the day ahead … Continue reading
Revisiting Phases of Abundance
We are now in year two of what Bill Mollison describes as Phases of Abundance. As it happens, this seems to be quite a naturally occurring process in the evolution of our garden, rather than a step by step following … Continue reading
Posted in Catch & Store Energy, Design from Patterns to Details, Integrate Rather than Segregate, Observe & Interact, Obtain a Yield, Produce No Waste, Self-Regulation & Feedback, Small & Slow Solutions, Tillellan Bird Life, Use & Value Diversity, Use & Value Renewable Resources & Services, Use Edges & Value the Marginal
Tagged Albany WA 6330, australia, chickens, environment, frogs, fruit, gardening, nature, observations, permaculture, Petit Paradis, resources, Tillellan, vegetables
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In Reverence of The Rusty Nail
I have busied myself with carpentry projects around the house. Not that I need to really busy myself, but that the aspiration to learn to put things together in more of a coherent and concrete sense than I have managed … Continue reading
Posted in Creatively Use & Respond to Change, Integrate Rather than Segregate, People care, Produce No Waste, Use & Value Renewable Resources & Services
Tagged Albany WA 6330, art, australia, children, environment, gardening, kids, observations, permaculture, Petit Paradis, resources, stuff, Tillellan
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Tourist Trap
I often wonder what residents of Perth or visitors to Albany, Western Australia, make of our weather. We have had some really wonderful weather recently. Yesterday had the intensity of a summers day, but with the freshness in the air … Continue reading
Reprieve 1st of March ’19
At 4am it started to rain. I don’t recall the last time I heard rain. Decent rain. It was over two months ago. I love the summer, but the garden is drying out down to the depths of itself. The … Continue reading
