Tuesday 9 October 2018

New podcast! House + garden tours! New PLC dates! And a very special forthcoming event!

Well, it's been three weeks since our sweet divorce from social media and we've been breathing more deeply by not serving the algorithm. We are exceedingly more productive, co-organising a significant new community speaking event, tending, gathering and making returns within our food and energy biomes, and teaching our first Permaculture Living Course (PLC).

Teeka, Marty and Cara are our first three PLC students

PLCs aim to transform permaculture principles and ethics into truly living the change – living alternative economies, practicing social-permaculture, fermenting and composting incalculable things to extend life and honour death, caring for kin, community and more-than-humans, developing post-materialist/capitalist lifeways, growing and harvesting home and community food and energy resources, making biomic returns (humanure, potash, micturated biochar, weed and poultry teas etc), and guerilla-managing public lands using regenerative land practices. Song-, philosophy- and poem-making also feature big throughout the day's labours, coupling the pragmatic with the soulful, the earthly with the abstract. Our PLCs are 100% non-monetary and 100% non-accredited.

Apply. Our next round of applications to do a Permaculture Living Course are open. Head here for more info about what's involved. Please email us if you'd like an application form. Applications close Friday November 23. The three autumn 2019 PLC dates are:

Dates.
Feb 25 - March 10
April 1 - 14
April 29 - May 12

Gift. We're looking for those who are not only committed to transforming their home economy into a carbon-conscious social ecology, but those already engaged in such work within the community (by which we mean non-monetary) economies.

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Tours. Our house and garden tours have begun again and you can book for a tour here. There are two more tours this year.


Podcast tour. If you can't make it to an actual tour you can listen to our latest podcast, Radical neopeasant homemaking, which was recorded a few weeks ago, captured on our last tour:



We hope this gives you a little insight into some of the processes, systems and biomes we labour with and within.

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Event. With our community caps on we have been working hard with Eva Perroni to put together this special event, which takes place in our home town of Daylesford in less than two weeks:


Land for Life. Featuring Jaara speaker Rebecca Phillips, permaculture co-originator David Holmgren and US food activist-scholar, Eric Holt Giménez, this event will be the second in a series of talks, since we co-produced Land Cultures: Aboriginal economies and permaculture futures (2016) with Anthony Petrucci.


Note. If you'd like more info about Land for Life, please email us (click above right) or head over here.

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Thanks. Thank you for reading and engaging with our labours in our little neck of the world,
Artist as Family.

4 comments:

  1. I wish I can attend one of your plc course.
    Love you guys and miss you
    Sue, aka, the land if mint :)

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    1. Oh thanks Sue, and miss you too. Much love xx

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  2. Congrats on the social media divorce. It is simply an awful arena of wasted energy. Martin Flanagan nailed it when he spoke in Clunes and referred to the atomizing effect of social media - all that lovely human energy smashed to smithereens never to be seen again.

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  3. Thanks for superb inspiration as always!
    I am guarding April 1 - 14 on my planner in the hope I can can participate in your PLC.
    Shall send in an application.
    Love, Ilka

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