Articles
Featured articles about all things permaculture, stories of projects, recipes, food for thought and what’s happening to planet earth. Includes he most comprehensive collection of writings by Robyn Francis.
Biodiversity and Mankind
Conservation in the wild can serve humanity and allow speciation into the future, for those species not driven to extinction. Destruction and fragmentation of habitat could drive speciation by creating disjunct populations with no gene flow! The importance of plants...
Bill Mollison – a giant tree has fallen in the forest of humanity
Robyn Francis reflects on her memories of Bill Mollison, teacher, mentor, friend… Bill Mollison, co-creator of the permaculture concept and founder of the movement, passed away in Hobart, Tasmania on the evening of September 24, 2016. For many it felt like a...
Student posts
Reports, news and projects by our PCA students
Integrating Biochar in Permaculture
“The movement to integrate Biochar into our soils must be localized in scale, and by preferably utilizing the waste products of other systems as to ensure any wider environmental damage is minimized.” Integration of Biochar Into Existing...
New Life in Shenzhen
The big industrial city life has seeding and flourishing life… Imagine yourself in the thick of smog that limits your vision to only three unit blocks standing at 10 stories high away, humidity pressing onto your shoulders and chest, people absolutely everywhere...
Team blogs
From PCA staff and Djanbung team
Bill Mollison Memorial Food Forest Garden
One of Bill’s final requests was for us to plant trees in his memory. So we decided to plant a new food forest for Bill. During the November Permaculture Design Course 2016 our class went on an excursion to Daleys Nursery in Kyogle to buy some trees for the new ...
Making Cassava Flour
Cassava flour is easy to make with basic kitchen equipment. It’s gluten free for those with celiac problems. I use it for making pancakes, slices and cookies, and mix it (half/half) with other flours for making breads or pizza dough. Cassava, also known as Tapioca or...
Graduates Stories
See what our alumni graduates and former students are doing
Repair Cafe gifted a pallet of shiny new tools
The Nimbin Repair Café has prompted an overwhelmingly positive response from the community, not just in Nimbin but elsewhere in the bioregion. Two weeks ago we received a surprise call from Lismore Red Cross asking if we would like to be put forward to Bunnings for a...
Polly’s Smiling Again – Polly Update #5
We are overjoyed to see Polly coming back to her old loveable self again over the past few weeks. She’s been steadily improving since her last relapse in early March with a new course of herbal medicine specially prepared by Angela, the Horse Herbalist in Ballina,...
Videos
Djanbung Gardens and our favourites videos about permaculture and sustainability
Robyn the Activator – on ABC Open
ABC Open tells peoples stories in film. Producer/film-maker Jeff Licence visited Djanbung Gardens in June 2014 to make a short film about Robyn Francis for the ‘Unsung’ series, titled Robyn the Activator....
Djanbung Gardens features in ‘Living in the Future’
Living in the Future began as an exploration of community and low impact living through film. In 2005, Living in the Future’s director, Helen iles, made a series of 12 programs about the history of ecovillage development in the UK which turned into a 50 minute film...
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Dganbung Gardens
Djanbung (pronounced with a hard ‘j’ and silent ‘d’) means platypus in the local Wiyabul dialect – the name was given by senior Bundjalung elder and lore keeper, Uncle Eric Walker.
Discover more about the indigenous significance of the Djanbung.
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