Wicking beds are raised garden beds with a water reservoir at the base made from pond liner filled with rocks and gravel. Moisture wicks up through the soil to feed the plant roots, thus little is lost to evaporation and plants are encouraged to send their roots down deep to tap into the water supply. …
Video of Robyn Francis taking Polly and Pudge off to work to prepare the pig tractor garden for it’s third annual planting season…. see our pig tractor in action – they are having such fun!
There’s no such thing as waste Charie Jones got creative for his Permaculture Principles presentation during his Certificate III in Permaculture studies at Djanbung Gardens and wrote a song. It was an instant hit with the class and eventually evolved into this great video clip.
Videos made by students about Djanbung’s Permaculture College and a tour of the gardens with Robyn Francis.
Farm for the Future: BBC documentary by Rebecca Hosking on the present global farming and food crisis, filmed in the UK and search for sustainable alternatives
Richard Heinberg, author of The End of Growth and Peak Oil and The Party’s Over, walks his talk in his suburnban permaculture garden.
Extracts from the ‘End of Suburbia’ introduces the history of suburban living and its dependence on fossil fuel.
