Societal fracturing
Our society is going through very challenging times. A large part of the world is in part or full lockdown, and life as we knew it has changed a lot, at least for the...
Category: Zaia’s Blog
Zaia talks about her day.
Scaling to suit your size
Column 7 of the Homegrown series Unfortunately the Weekend Magazine is no longer published due to closure of the printed Sunshine Coast Daily. Zaia will finish the series here online. We can play with...
Compassion and forgiveness
Last weekend we had a not so nice weekend. We received a text with certain accusations. After we replied we were subsequently abused. Accusations and abuse were totally unfounded. But no matter what we...
Easy guide to improving your footprint
A lot of people would like to do better by this planet but do not know where to start. We have compiled this guide so that you can see what you can do to...
Reasons for denial and anger about climate change
Climate change is a much contested issue, but more and more evidence is surfacing now that it is real. Most scientists in the world agree that this unprecedented level of accelerated heating is most...
Straw bale building
Grade 9 school camp does straw bale building and building with mud bricks at the Kendall Permaculture Farm. Every year for the past few years we have been hosts to a great bunch of...
Permaculture: a holistic approach to life
When we tell people we practise permaculture, we usually get some questions. The interesting thing is the type of questions we are asked. Usually the person asking us has a plant or tree that has some sort of disease and we are asked what they can do about it. It is interesting how we are all so indoctrinated into thinking that someone who works with nature, plants and animals should just know how to treat something that is diseased without doing any further research or knowing the circumstances…
How we got our chooks to lay again…
Finding a connection between EMFs and hormonal symptoms, in human and animal. Going from 1 egg every 3 days to an average of 20 eggs per day, just by protecting our chooks from EMFs.
Lots of learning and fun at CelebrATE!
Looking back on a great long weekend at CelebrATE!, a two day celebration of Permaculture, Music and Food. Workshops with Jason Davies, Amanda Moore, Tom Kendall, Jodie Williams and Zaia Kendall, a music jam with Linsey Pollak, performances by the Unusual Suspects, Mal Webb & Kylie Morrigan and the Formidable Vegetable Sound System and food by Black Ant Gourmet.
Differences in linear and holistic thinking and operating
We are masters of trying to control our environment as humans, to the detriment of our species. We are so linear, we have removed ourselves completely from the natural environment and label everything. We need more holistic thinkers, more people that can see the whole picture and the amazing interaction between all the elements in a system…
2 week grade 9 Steiner Waldorf school camp at Maungaraeeda
The grade 9 class from the Noosa Pengari Steiner Waldorf school had a 2 week permaculture school camp at Maungaraeeda. They had a electronic free 2 weeks on the land, a wonderful group of students and teachers!
