Djanbung Gardens is a living learnscape, permaculture education centre and demonstration farm where the concepts taught are practiced in everyday life. Here you can explore the site, it’s history, and working permaculture systems.
Bamboo in Permaculture with Robyn Francis
I love Bamboo; growing, eating, crafting, building, and listening to the sounds of creaking culms and rustling leaves in the wind. It provides me with microclimates, windbreaks, privacy screens, animal fodder, wildlife habitat, an endless supply of mulch, delicious...
Wildlife – Freeranging at Djanbung
Wildlife is welcome here but not cats or dogs…. It was twenty years ago that I made the momentous decision to take on a 5 acre degraded cow pasture and restore it to biodiversity and abundance as a permaculture education centre and wildlife sanctuary. I remember...
Piggies at Work
Photo journal of a pig tractor garden Pigs are amazing biological ploughs – their snout is exceptionally strong and designed for excavating the earth in search of tasty morsels buried underground, especially tubers and roots, and also fungi and insects. In...
Edible Landscapes & Gardens
Djanbung Gardens is a botanic gardens of useful, economic and cultural plants within a working permaculture system. Gardens & orchards are maintained organically as an integrated system. The vegetable gardens employ low and no-till techniques, companion planting,...
Buildings & Technology
Djanbung Gardens buildings are designed according to passive solar principles to be energy efficient and reduce use of resources. Likewise, a diverse range of technologies have been selected to reduce energy and resource consumption. Djanbung is self-reliant for its...
Djanbung Gardens Overview & History
Read about how the home of Permaculture College Australia was founded and developed. Djanbung Gardens: Vital Statistics and History VITAL STATISTICS Size: 2.16 Ha (5.4 acres) Soil: Loamy clay top soil 20-30cm over heavy reactive plastic clay Previous landuse:...
