Most of the text on this
page is taken directly from material on the linked sites
described.
An informal, community-based organisation linking
people interested in community gardening across
Australia.
A non-profit community service supporting organisations
who work to increase our access to healthy, local food.
Brogo Permaculture Gardens is a celebration of the
cultural shift we took from dependant city consumers to
responsible rural producers. This is our contribution
to the movement toward living lightly to meet basic
human needs and then, take the lessons learnt into our
community and bioregion.
Design, facilitation, training and web services.
Here you can find a directory of resources (websites,
books, mailing lists, etc.) of all issues relevant to
building and living in eco-villages.This resource on
Sarah West's homepage was created and is maintained by
Christoph Henschon
This prototype site contains information and links
about a proposal to launch Gaia U in Australia. Please
read and get involved if you are interested in being a
learner or a partner provider.
The site of David Holmgren, who with Bill Mollison
wrote the book Permaculture One which launched the
movement.
Jerrapark is a 16 hectare (40 acre) demonstration farm,
that started in 1991 with a concept of developing a
sustainable living system. Utilising Bill Mollison and
David Holmgren's permaculture design principals and
incorporating Rudolf Steiner's approach to bio-dynamic
farming. The aim is renewing the connection with nature
and cosmic energy in a holistic approach.
Natural innovation at the edges of Sustainability,
Technology and Community.
Peter Andrews fascinating site.
Permaculture teaching and networking partnership of
Russ Grayson and Fiona Campbell. Includes the
Permaculture Papers by Russ Grayson.
A resource for farmers & business, gardeners &
cooks. This website makes use of a zonal design system
as it's index - and it doesn't take long before the
index grows into a matrix and becomes a Qabbalah.
"Permaculture Education" was established by Robyn
Francis in 1989 and has trained over 2000 people from
interstate and overseas. Based at Djanbung Gardens.
"Permaculture Education" networks with groups in New
Zealand, Indonesia and East Timor & is looking
forward to extending it's services and support to other
Asia-Pacific neighbours.
Our Insitute's mission statement is the promotion of
sustainable system design known as Permaculture,
through education, publishing, translation,
implementation, the development of curricula, and the
establishment and administration of aid projects.
PIWA is a body of professional Permaculturists engaged
in a range of formal and informal Permaculture teaching
activities in WA. They don't have a website, however
they organised IPC6 and the excellent proceedings site
still exists.
Permaculture International Limited (PIL) provides
services to members in support of their work in
permaculture design, service and permaculture related
activities.
Permaculture Melbourne Inc. is a member based
non-profit association. Coming under the umbrella of
Permaculture Melbourne, there are a number of local and
special interest groups including the Seedy Group,
Victorian Educators' Group and the Heritage Fruits
Group. Local groups include Mountain Districts, South
Eastern Suburbs, North East Ranges and Yarra Valley.
Permaculture Noosa is a vibrant & dynamic group of
people living on small acreage and/or an urban
environment in sub-tropical Queensland at Cooroy and
surrounding areas on the Sunshine Coast, Australia.
The Permaculture Research Institute (PRI), headed by
Geoff Lawton, is a non-profit organisation involved in
global networking and practical training of
environmental activists. It offers solutions to local
and global ecological problems, and has an innovative
farm design in progress. The Institute is also involved
in design and consultancy work, and actively supports
several aid projects around the world.
Permaculture Solutions is a social enterprise run
cooperatively by a small team of professionally trained
permaculture designers. Permaculture Solutions began
with our interest in making our living by doing what we
are passionate about, this passion informing all we do.
We are currently based in Melbourne's South-Eastern
suburbs (Clayton).
Online Permaculture training from April Sampson -
Kelly.
The Permaforest Trust is a not-for-profit education
centre and demonstration farm created to promote
sustainability. The Trust is a living example of
sustainable practices where people may learn together
through participation.
The aim of SEED International is to contribute to the
emergence of an ecological and sustainable future
through ecoliteracy and ecodesign.
Was founded in 1986 to preserve the diversity of our
cultural plants. Our activities include a newsletter,
seed exchange, seed bank, frequent events and workshops
and the publication of a best selling handbook on the
subject in Australia. A version for cold climates is
currently being published in the UK.
Jade & Paul Woodhouse are Permaculturists and
sustainable gardeners/farmers.
The Somerville Ecovillage project is a not for profit
community based initiative that is creating a world
class ecovillage in Chidlow, only 45 minutes drive from
the centre of Perth. The village design is based on
Permaculture principles and Pattern Language as
utilised successfully in leading ecovillages around the
world.
We specialise in assessment of community needs and
resources, education of project field workers and
members of indigenous communities, and design and
implementation of sustainable solutions to a range of
global problems.
Welcome to one of the first Australian back to basics
sites. We are a friendly community focused on
sustainability, permaculture, organic gardening,
backyard livestock, simple living and stepping lightly
on the planet. If you’re interested in a simple
sustainable lifestyle then you’re in the right
place; there are fellow travellers here.
Publishers for the Permaculture Institute since 1978.
The Food Forest today is the result of the vision of
owners Graham & Annemarie Brookman and functions as
a remarkable 15 hectare Permaculture farm and learning
centre.
This project is working towards providing an inner city
example of sustainable living, as well as a model for
environmentally friendly and ethical business
practices.
A non-profit voluntary organisation that promotes,
practices, and represents Permaculture in South
Australia.
The most important thing each of us can do is to help
more people to understand that our society is not
sustainable, and to understand that there is a
satisfactory alternative path. There can be no
significant change until enough people see the need for
it, and accept The Simpler Way. We can all contribute
to increasing this understanding. The main purpose of
this website is to provide information which will help
people in their efforts to educate about the need for
change.
Permaculture Solutions' blog. Intended to be a log of
our permaculture design experiment here at the
wonderful thomas street residence, and now seemingly a
campaign to save our beautiful garden!
Willing Workers On Organic Farms (WWOOF) is a form of
cultural exchange in which WWOOFers live and work as
family with host farms, and learn about: the skills of
organic growing in the area they are visiting.