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...
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...
Column 8 of the Homegrown series. We have never had a big budget on our farm, and a lot of the time have had to “make do” with whatever we were given, found or...
Column 4 in Homegrown, Weekend Magazine, Sunshine Coast Daily, by Zaia Kendall My husband Tom always says that if you want to confuse him, give him a tree for a present. He will take...
After the earth has had some relief from our polluting ways, it looks like we are slowly on track to go back to “normal”. However, pre Covid-19 was not normal! This is our chance...
There is a lot of confusion about food and what to eat these days. A lot of people are interested in becoming more sustainable and one of the ways to do that is to...
We surely live in interesting times! These challenges are showing us some very interesting truths about today’s systems and people’s mentality. Nothing much has changed for us however, as we have set up systems...
We have been running goats at the Kendall Permaculture Farm since 2006. We have learnt a lot about them since then, and through trial and error we now have a system in place which...
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...
This morning, 3 weeks after planting out our first Syntropic section, we harvested the first of the produce from that section. 1.9kg of radish was harvested, and that was probably only half of what...
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...
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.
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!