[Pil-pc-oceania] new contact details

[permaculture at apollobay.org.au]

Otways & Coast Permaculture Group (OCPG)

Tony Webber is the new convener for Otways & Coast Permaculture Group
(OCPG). His contact no. is: (03) 52376926
Tony doesn't have an email, so this contact email will stay the same (this
email <permaculture at apollobay.org.au> will be transferred over to OCPG. Tony
is also still treasurer and Vanessa Wighton is still secretary. fern is
library
and market for OCPG.
Fern Rainbow remains contact person for the Southwest Victoria Community
Garden and Permaculture Network.  Ph: (03) 52376131
<permaculture at mysoul.com.au>
Southwest Victoria Community Garden and Permaculture Network is a informal
regional network of sustainability, community gardens and permaculture
organisations in Southwest Victoria.

- About OCPG

Otways & Coast Permaculture Group (OCPG) is under the umbrella of
Permaculture Melbourne Inc. It is also part of Southwest Victoria
Community Garden and Permaculture Network which is linked in with the
organisation “Cultivating Community Inc.” and Australian City Farms and
Community Gardens Network. OCPG was formally Apollo Bay & Districts
Permaculture Group, started by Fern Rainbow Ockerby in 2004

The Otways & Coast bioregion roughly follows the boundaries of the
traditional owners of the land, the Gadabanud and Gulijan people. The
Katabanud country stretches east from the Gellibrand river at Princetown
along the coast to Panicalac creek then inland to Birregurra and follows
the Barwon river back to Barramunga and then over the ridge to the upper
Gellibrand river and back down to Princetown.(*) Energy expenditure and
usage, as well as flora & fauna habitat also plays a part in defining a
bioregion.

In a permaculture sense, as bioregions are life regions, people and human
culture are a very important part of defining a bioregion. As Bill
Mollison writes in ch.14.5 of the permaculture designers manual,“The acid
test of a bioregion is that it is recognised as such by its inhabitants”.

OCPG meets on a monthly basis, usually the first Monday of each month.
Activities are varied and often spring from these monthly meetings.

(*) Thanks to John Clarke for the information on Gatabunud and tribal
boundaries. 

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