Category: Permaculture Design

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offers and interests for 2025

January 14, 2025 By Lizzy

Here I am saying out loud what is alive for me right now and ahead… Offers Courses See the PEAS web page for current permaculture education offers https://peas-permaculture.com/peas Workshops Rapid design in place  – by request Interests Article Reading https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2024/07/how-is-concern-about-climate-change-taking-a-toll-on-young-people The IR classroom: Ethics of tourism to authoritarian states Slowly Gregory Bateson’s ecology of the mind […]

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Community Garden System

November 17, 2024 By Lizzy

Here I map out the inputs, elements and outputs and yields of a Community Garden as a system. What would you include? How does your local community garden operate? What Yields do your members gain from the Garden? View the system here (Canva) Community Garden System (PDF)  

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becoming local

October 7, 2024 By Lizzy

For the last 8 years or so I promised myself I would make time to immerse myself to be local in my place I have called home for a long time now – long enough to call myself a local. I mean local in the Helena Norberg Hogson meaning of localisation, who is my inspiration […]

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timescaper’s privilege

April 20, 2024 By Lizzy

Making positive change in the world  – even in your world – is hard. Even the smallest idea for action may make us hesitate, leave it for someone else or second guess our right or capability to give it a go and learn from what happens next and build. Hearing a conversation today about choice, […]

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communications in communities

December 21, 2023 By Lizzy

In our community groups, communication is key to our common success. Little things like saying hello, admiring someone’s beans or just smiling or nodding with a little eye contact can change someone’s day, especially if they feel isolated or lonely. We are all busy –  too busy sometimes to read emails and newsletters that other […]

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Kitchen simplicity

November 13, 2023 By Lizzy

Showing my kitchen and household systems to our ‘intro to permaculture’ course participants is a bit nerve-wracking – it’s easy to wonder how judgemental people might be about hygiene, aesthetics, choices and detritus left by a shared household in the kitchen and ‘oh how pure are my principles’ for what is in the fridge and […]

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frameworks for design with depth

November 13, 2023 By Lizzy

The more I listen to and read about designers talk about design as a process, the clearer it is to me that we work best from frameworks – the bigger perspectives and patterns. Having more frameworks (by that I mean theories grounded in truth/evidence) to draw on, gives you more edge and depth as a […]