[Pil-pc-oceania] ABC Gardening Aust. at Melliodora 31/3/07

[holmgren at netconnect.com.au]

ABC TV's Gardening Australia presenter and permaculture designer Josh 
Byrne from WA at Melliodora

Planned broadcast date 31st March 2007

This 6.5 minute piece due for broadcast in March (repeated in 
December) includes hard hitting comments from David about drought and 
water use in gardens including using water for home food production 
being more water efficient than food from the supermarket.

Although we are having our worst season yet in terms of fruit and 
vegie crops we agreed to Gardening Australia coming on the basis that 
we could counter some of the misconceptions and wrong directions 
being peddled by state governments and even environmental 
organisations about household water use.

See  <http://www.holmgren.com.au/html/Writings/Writings.html>Garden 
Agriculture: A Revolution in Efficient Water Use (53kb pdf) for more 
info from Writings page of HDS website

For more info about Melliodora see the <htttp://www.holmgren.com.au>website .

For the full story, pictures and plans get the 
<http://www.holmgren.com.au/html/Publications/eBook.html>eBook

Back in 1997 Gardening Australia did a 3 part series on permaculture 
at Melliodora that was rerun on their 'best of first ten years'.  We 
hope this advanced publicity allows permaculture teachers and 
activists to make use of this in their own activities and help 
promote permaculture more generally.

Josh Byrne named Melliodora as his favourite garden in the world! in 
a 15 year anniversary isssue of the Gardening Australia magazine. 
Josh has a new 100 minute DVD  on the permaculture makeover of his 
Perth backyard garden from Gardening Australia which provides a good 
basic permaculture design and establishment info for the mainstream 
home gardener.

Su Dennett and David Holmgren

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David Holmgren & Su Dennett
Holmgren Design Services
Ph   + 61 3 53483636
Email     info at holmgren.com.au
Website  http://www.holmgren.com.au

Melliodora (Hepburn Permaculture Gardens)
16 Fourteenth St,
Hepburn
Victoria
Australia. 3461.


-- 
David Holmgren & Su Dennett
Holmgren Design Services
Ph   + 61 3 53483636
Email     info at holmgren.com.au
Website  http://www.holmgren.com.au

Melliodora (Hepburn Permaculture Gardens)
16 Fourteenth St,
Hepburn
Victoria
Australia. 3461.
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