Permaculture Melbourne Inc.
is a member-based non-profit association established in 1981 to promote the sustainable development of Melbourne. It has grown to become an umbrella organisation supporting a range of local and special interest groups with membership across Victoria.
News and Events
Autumn ‘Kingdom of Fungi’ workshops with Alison Pouliot
SATURDAY 27 APRIL - SATURDAY 25 MAY
The Victorian Fungi Workshops are running again this autumn with a variety of seminars, workshops, forays and feasts on offer. Events are held throughout April and May. For more information, visit www.alisonpouliot.com/projects_fungi_ecology.php .
INTERNATIONAL PERMACULTURE DAY 2013
International Permaculture Day, Sunday 5 May
International Permaculture Day, celebrated annually on the first Sunday in May, features events including open homes, gardens and farms; films; educational workshops; permablitzes and lots more! It’s a day to experience positive permaculture projects in action and to meet the people living it.
See http://www.permacultureday.org/ for events in your area
OR REGISTER YOUR OWN!
Events around Melbourne include…
Telopea Mountain Permaculture – open day
Guided tours through the Telopea Mountain fruit collections and the many aspects of this 100+ year old cut flower farm that became a Permaculture demonstration farm in 1994.
Tours 10.30AM and 2PM, fruit tastings between the tours
Cost $25pp for tour and tastings (limited places as these are small group tours).
Nursery will be open for potted fruit tree sales and our fresh biodynamic fruit.
More info at http://www.petethepermie.com/
Autumn Wildfoods workshop
11:00AM – 3:00PM
Thornbury
Cost $50 pp / $40 concession
More info: thepermapixie@gmailcom, 0450 375 528
(Also: Winter Wildfoods workshop Sunday 9th June)
Holistic Management and Permaculture: A Two-Day workshop with Darren Doherty
1 & 2 June 2013
Venue TBA (within central Melbourne)
Earlybird price $275 until 15 April, $300 thereafter, includes lunch and snacks.
More information & to registration www.VeryEdibleGardens.com
Antique Apple Tasting at Petty’s Orchard
Fortnightly tasting tours of seasonal apple varieties
Sunday evenings during daylight saving
Sunday mornings after daylight saving ends
At Petty’s Orchard, Templestowe
Small group tour & tasting $15 per person. Drinks & nibbles included. BYO wine & chair.
Bookings (pre-payment essential) via http://www.heritagefruitssociety.org.au/events/eventhome.html
Permaculture Melbourne members will be given a free bag of apples!
Tours of ‘Melliodora’
Tours of ‘Melliodora’, the Hepburn property of David Holmgren & Su Dennett, run the first Sunday of each month
10am-12.30pm House tour
2-4.30pm Garden tour
$30pp/tour, bookings essential!
www.holmgren.com.au
‘Imagineering’ the Permaculture Australia organisation
Fri 26 – Sun 28 April
Location: Bondi, Sydney
You are invited to participate in a collective visioning to take Permaculture Australia to the next level and into a working reality. This gathering of minds will build on the previous processes and discussions (APC9, APC10, the 2011 survey) to clarify PA’s purpose, its functions, and to create a strategic plan, aroadmap and working groups to get us there. Other critical outcomes will include clarifying memberships and working relationships between local/state permaculture groups and PA.
We welcome a broad participation from permaculture groups and individuals. Contributions can also be received via emails to the PA website. To be kept informed, email hello@permacultureaustralia.org.au
