[Pil-pc-oceania] FW: New, old mag to feed Permaculture minds in Australia

[darren at permaculture.biz]

G'day,

I trust that this greets you and all well.

Thanks for the note Jedd...here goes again!

I picked up a copy of the G magazine at the Sydney airport in before
Christmas. It was the only "Green" magazine at that airport and certainly
none are to be found at the Melbourne airport or any in the US that I have
been to. So the usual in-flight fare is another Tim Flannery (Country is the
last one - now I'm done with Tim and looking for the next one) and a "New
Scientist"....

The G appears a pretty light mag along the lines of the stuff coming out of
places like Portland (Oregon) where green is serious business and its
getting very trendy and glossy. Chic Green. So perfect for the café rack and
you can still afford your latte and baklava Russ....I subscribe to
"Permaculture" and its pretty good - though I preferred the PIJ. Not a
criticism at all - just the PIJ was more my cup of tea as it where...They do
have a great catalogue though - with all of those "Garden's Illustrated"
type tools plus a lot of books worth adding to the shelves. 

Side note on the railway gardens. Catching the train to Melbourne (from
Bendigo) recently and I was amazed that even out in the new boxed in suburbs
that people were taking their little slice of railway land. Chooks, fruit
trees etc. Once you go through St Albans, Sunshine etc. then there is action
aplenty, with older homes (and presumably older, often Eastern European
occupants) doing their great stuff. In Bendigo too - people continue to take
their liberty. I think that the railways would be happy enough. Most of
these gardens are well maintained and the grass is clipped so would save
them. My parents have colonised their "over the back fence" with various
planting discards I have thrown their way over the years. Their olives in
particular are doing better than any of the 100 000 or so I have put in over
the years! 

 

Yours and Growing,

 

Ciao,

Darren Doherty
www.permaculture.biz

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