permaculture

["Martha Ruth Hills (MelbPC)" <mrhills@melbpc.org.au>]

Hi Friends,

 

Last Sunday Permaculture Melbourne held its annual meeting, or

as we say in Australia, its Annual General Meeting (AGM).  The

venue was a barn at Collingwood Children's Farm.  Chickens and

ducks walked through, and one hen even lay an egg in a nearby

pile of straw and announced it loudly.  Halfway through there was

a demonstration of how to milk goats on the other side of the barn.

 

One guest speaker was Ed McKinley, a founding member of the

intentional community Commonground, which runs training for

community groups in a country town about an hour outside of

Melbourne.  He spoke about cooperation, including how he came

to value it, how his community tries to implement it, and how much

different it is from the usual way we've been raised. 

 

The other speakers were Naomi and Rick Coleman, permaculture

teachers, who recently spent a year travelling and teaching with

their two small children and her brother.  They spoke about their experiences

in Mexico and Guatemala (not enough time to include Ecuador and

India).  They taught and designed in deserts and wet tropics, mountain

tops and plains, with and without translators, having to modify plans

overnight many times.

 

Onward, MR

 

Martha Ruth Hills

 

Our life is more than our work and our work is more
than our job.

 

Martha Ruth Hills

 

Our life is more than our work and our work is more
than our job.