[permaculture-oceania] Healthy gardens just the start for healthy communities

[Robyn Williamson]

The Age, Melbourne, Vic
"Healthy Gardens Just the Start for Healthy Communities"
Tuesday 10 October 2006
Article by Beth Spencer
who asks:

"When 80 per cent of a nation's fruit crop can be wiped out overnight  
by a bad frost, is this really a good time to actively discourage  
people from tending their backyard fruit trees and vegie patches? Could  
we instead perhaps educate and encourage each other towards  
permaculture and water efficiency by more diverse and varied [water]  
restrictions?"


Read the whole article at:

http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/healthy-gardens-just-the-start- 
for-healthy-community/2006/10/09/1160246067692.html


CONTACT DETAILS:

Robyn Williamson
Permaculture Design Consultant
Urban Horticulturist
Local Seed Network Coordinator
NORTH WESTERN SYDNEY COMMUNITY SEED SAVERS
mobile:  0409 151 435
ph/fx:  (612) 9629 3560
http://www.seedsavers.net
http://www.communityfoods.org.au
http://www.communitygarden.org.au
http://www.baulkhamhills.nsw.gov.au/Bidjiwong

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of
ignorance. *-Reuben Blades*
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