I was interested to read Glenn's comment about a permaculture design course happening in Canberra next year - I hadn't heard about the course but it sounds really good. In response to Glenn's question, we're situated about 30 km north of Canberra, on the way towards Yass, so are probably in a similar climatic zone to his property near Goulburn.
After getting off to a fantastic spring start, our garden has been struggling a bit due to the extreme heat and lack of rain. Happily we had ~15mm on Monday night and the garden is looking better for it. The soil is still pretty dry, but the rain did at least wash the dust off the leaves. The tomatoes are flowering, we've got lots of snow peas and cauliflowers, and the first strawberries are ripening. Our fruit trees were looking great, but are now covered in aphids - we're spraying with Natrasoap to get rid of them.
there is a permaculture design course in Canberra on 5-17 July 2009 (found on the permaculture international ltd site.)
http://www.permacultureinternational.org/Members/johnchampagne/PermacultureDesignCourse/
Posted by: Megan | June 06, 2009 at 06:34 PM
The link dosen't show the course in the ACT - can you give me information or direct me to a link that has the information
Many thanks
Cheyne
Posted by: cheyne morris | February 11, 2009 at 02:35 PM
The link dosen't show the course in the ACT - can you give me information or direct me to a link that has the information
Many thanks
Cheyne
Posted by: cheyne morris | February 11, 2009 at 02:34 PM