Swap Shuffle Share Five Years On Our last Swap Shuffle Share was on a wet and rainy day in July. We had just returned home from holidays and hadn’t put any time into promoting the Swap. I hadn’t sent out a newsletter, got enthusiastic on social media and hadn’t got into one of those bubbly … Read more
Festival of No Waste Sunday November 26th 2017 This year’s Fair Harvest Festival, the “Festival of No Waste” plus Charlie Mgee Sundowner is shaping up to be a ripper of an event. The list of stalls, activities and displays is growing daily. Everywhere we look is waste and often it’s just plain depressing, but this … Read more
Looking back on the January Permaculture Design Certificate 2017. Two weeks of living and learning with group of amazing individuals….. I, like many others feel a sense of doom when I look at the various environmental, social and economic crisis happening on our beautiful planet. The overwhelming emails that pour in every day asking us … Read more
Take a stroll around the Fair Harvest garden through the eyes of a recent Permaculture Design Certificate student and beautiful photographer Sarah Rowley
Festival of Fibre What an exquisitely beautiful day it was with a fantastic range of presenters and people participating in all sorts of activities. It felt very special to devote a day to fibre as it has played such an important part in our lives over centuries. “Permaculture is defined as consciously designed landscapes which … Read more
October was such a big month in the Permaculture world with some of the most amazing thinkers and doers from Australia and New Zealand converging in WA for a month of festivity, sharing ideas, visiting properties, running courses and generally immersing themselves in Permaculture. Unfortunately for us it is also one of the busiest times … Read more
Learn Permaculture Design … a real life project! An important part of our Permaculture Design Certificate is the real life design project. For each course we choose a property that we feel will give the students the best learning opportunity for their future work as designers. As we get a range of students from rural and urban settings we … Read more
Festival of Fibre Program Nov 27 2016 Fair Harvest Permaculture 426 Carters Rd Margaret River W.A. from 10am – 4pm entry $10 kids $5 under 5’s free (ticket sales at the gate ) Thank you to everyone that has put their hands up to get involved in the Festival of Fibre , it’s shaping up … Read more
I’m not so much a cook as a lover of tastes I imagine them in my mouth colliding with each other, simple strong earth tastes not needing too much tampering In fact, truth is, I start tampering and I loose it. Complex recipes are not for me My staple is pesto not the cheesy stuff … Read more
Living in an area that receives all of its water over the winter months and almost none over the summer means that most productive food gardens are irrigated to some extent. Taking the challenge to create a garden that has no access to water means thinking carefully about catching and storing every available bit of water that passes … Read more