Awareness is not enough!
Here at the farm: – We produce food: meat, vegetables, nuts and fruit – We produce milk products: yoghurt, cream, cheese, butter and ghee – We plant trees, bushes, plants, flowers and whatever we...
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Syntropic addition to the Permaculture Farm
Over the past couple of months we have been preparing beds and paths between the beds to trial the Syntropic System (a type of AgroForestry) on the Kendall Permaculture Farm. The area we have...
Building community with music & soil
Music is known as a universal language. If you can play music, you can converse with other musicians musically. No shared verbal language is required. Emotions can be shared beautifully through music, music can...
Change of name
For the past several months we have felt we needed to change our name, due to our desire to move into research, case study and aid projects outside of the Sunshine Coast area. There...
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 Party: Formidable Vegetable, Mal Webb & Kylie Morrigan and Farm Tour!
We are very pleased to have our crazy Formidable Vegetable friends coming to hang out with us after Woodford Folk Festival! They will be doing a house concert here on Friday 4 January 2019....
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.
Stop debating and start planting!
My opinion on Facebook permaculture debates…
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…
CelebrATE!
Tom and I are excited to open our gates to people for CelebrATE! on Labour Day weekend, and to showcase our permaculture property which is currently providing us with around 90% of our food, 100% of our cooking energy needs and most of our animal feed.
The not for profit Permaculture Research Institute Sunshine Coast Inc. (www.permeco.org) is organising CelebrATE!, a two day celebration of Permaculture, Music and Food on our Permaculture Demonstration and Education site “Maungaraeeda” (Place of Food) in the Noosa Hinterland town of Kin Kin on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland.
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