Wow awesome, food frugality

Crazily creative, wonderfully delicious looking, frugally produced super healthy raw food blog. Yes, sounds super to me! Eating raw on $10 a day (or less)

one scythe revolution

Harvesting reed canary grass for straw

Heburn Relocalisation Network

The Hepburn Relocalisation Network is a community group based in Hepburn and Daylesford in Central Victoria, Australia. We recognise the urgent realities of peak oil and climate change and are responding by raising awareness about how these issues affect our community, and how we can respond to these realities with a plan for the future.

for more on HRN and details of projects and upcoming events

Why they do what they do

From the Artist as Family blog

2. No matter how a person tries to frame or revise our culture there's no getting away from it – wealth delivers pollution.

3. Researchers tell us that the level of happiness peaks just above the poverty line, but we already knew this. Any accumulation of wealth after this point disables the adequate distribution of resources in order for local populations and ecologies to self-renew.

4. 32,000 people were treated last year in Australian hospitals for self-harming. The mental health of the country is flailing. An increasingly toxic food supply system is in part responsible. For a culture whose dominant ideology is based on a growth profit-pollution paradigm, figures like this will only increase.

read the full post Why we do what we do

garden notes for relocalisation

Patrick Jones is is a writer, artist and permaculturalist currently undertaking doctoral studies in the areas of poetics and ecology at UWS in the Writing and Society Research Group.
He lives With his family in the Hepburn/Daylesford area and.
Together, as the Artist as Family, we are making the transition to food, water and energy sustainability as part of the Hepburn Relocalisation Network (HRN).

Garden notes for relocalisation
The development of a Family Food Garden

Artist as Family and Permapoesis

Plan for hundreds of kilometres of new freeways

More roads??? Gee what a good solution! Why don't we make one each while we are at it so we dont have to see each other on our long ways of constantly going somewhere in our beautiful petrol fuelled cars...

A spokeswoman for the road authority, Rebecca Thistleton, would say only that VicRoads was always ''considering long-term speculative transport planning solutions for Melbourne's growing population''.
Read article here

I say we need to at least halve the amount of roads and turn them into greenways, food forests, bike lanes and walking tracks, and what about a public transport system that was actually efficient??

Feral food future

Eating weeds, as I’m beginning to understand, is the most radical food supply available. It is one that attends to the desire to make the transition to ecologically embedded modes of existence, transitioning to a feral food future perhaps more suited to non-Indigenous Australians. We are, after all, weeds ourselves. However, with expanding populations a relocalised food supply system is going to rely on biodiverse modes of supply that Malthus could have only dreamed of. Permaculture shows us how to cohabit the earth again alongside non-human nature while generating an abundant and diverse food supply. Permaculture is a transitional ideology, a framework for putting all the local food supply options back on the table – foraging for feral fruits and nuts, growing annual and perennial vegetables, eating edible weeds, developing reciprocal relationships with other species, eating much less or no meat, understanding the importance of micro-fauna and micro-fungi networks to enhance soils for greater food abundance
Patrick Jones from Greenwash #13 article published in In Trouble

Local Food Tour

Saturday 9th of October
9:45am-2:15pm
Come on a tour of local food sites, taking in community gardens, productive backyards, Preston Market and a talk from the Preston Historical Society on Preston's rich food producing history!
Meet at Sprout at 9:45 for a 10am start - or join us at one of our stops. Please be aware that timing is only approximate - it's a good idea to take down Serenity's phone number if you plan to join us part of the way through. RSVP to Serenity - 0411 878 063
Read more about this event on the Transition Darebin website

In Transition

FILM & DISCUSSION: "IN TRANSITION: FROM OIL DEPENDENCE TO LOCAL RESILIENCE"
Thur 30 Sept, 6.45pm How do we reduce our dependence on oil? Find out! This is the first ever movie all about the Transition Towns movement.
Guest speaker Adam Grubb from Permablitz!
Preston Council Chambers, 350 High Street, Preston.
RSVP to Tony 0419 853 686 or email verseandvoice@gmail.com

Find out more about the movie and see the preview here.