by Meg | Nov 19, 2019 | RetroSuburbia Event
On Saturday October 26, David attended the 2019 Zero Waste Festival at the St Kilda Town Hall in Melbourne. He sat on a panel with these zero wasters: Here is a short version of what David said on the panel: I would like to return to the focus of the home that...
by David Holmgren | Oct 12, 2019 | RetroSuburbia Roadshow
Our reception at Burrum Biodynamics felt like a hybrid of being permaculture royalty and relatives, which we suppose was sort of true after we discovered (last year) that Tanya is a Raeburn from around St Arnaud. Su’s mother was a Raeburn born in St Arnaud. Steve...
by David Holmgren | Oct 11, 2019 | RetroSuburbia Roadshow
David has been co-teaching on the Food Forest annual Permaculture Design Course with Graham and Annemarie Brookman since 2003. Each year he takes the train and stays for the first week of a residential course, which is then completed in two follow up session of a few...
by David Holmgren | Sep 29, 2019 | RetroSuburbia Roadshow
The Ceduna A1 Cabins and Caravan Park was more downmarket than Esperance, and cost $18 and a friendly rave about the “bloody banks” from the proprietor. We were greeted by our neighbour, one of the elderly permanent residents, availed ourselves of hot showers and a...
by David Holmgren | Sep 28, 2019 | RetroSuburbia Roadshow
Leaving Norseman to travel east on the Eyre Highway is leaving WA – not the state border of course, which is 720 km to the east, but in terms of settlement and sentiment. When people say “crossing the Nullarbor” they generally mean the 1100 km plus between Norseman...
by David Holmgren | Sep 22, 2019 | RetroSuburbia Roadshow
With the Channel Nine News reader (on the telly in the camp kitchen at the Bushlands Caravan Park) breathlessly informing us that the record breaking heat was going to be followed by winter cold, wind and rain for a couple of days, we decided camping on the coast...
by David Holmgren | Sep 21, 2019 | RetroSuburbia Roadshow
Our plans for heading for home required us going back to the coast at Esperance before the journey north to Norseman and out across the Nullarbor. We had reluctantly decided that we couldn’t visit the various farmers from further west and south we had met in Gnarrojin...
by David Holmgren | Sep 20, 2019 | RetroSuburbia Roadshow
The turn off the Albany highway showed us more wheat and grazing paddocks and less canola, reflecting the declining rainfall as you move northeast. But Gnarrojin (Narrogin) is on some of the best soil in the wheatbelt and like York has York Gum (Eucalyptus loxophleba)...
by David Holmgren | Sep 4, 2019 | RetroSuburbia Roadshow
An evening chatting after a shared meal, a slow pack up next day, connecting with some of the kids in the community including one home-educated, and a couple of radio interviews for David saw us back in Denmark for shopping, some permaculture celebrity recognition and...
by David Holmgren | Sep 4, 2019 | RetroSuburbia Roadshow
The drive to Albany took us through the whole mosaic of South West landscapes including wetlands brimming with water on backroads David had never travelled on in his youth. The journey was marred by a collision with a kangaroo. David walked back to dispatch the poor...