Australian Permaculture Convergence
21-24 April, 2023 | Yaktunga / Mount Barker, South Australia
APC is a three-day event celebrating the permaculture, sustainability and urban food movements across Australia. Featuring inspiring keynote speakers, workshops, stalls, hands-on activities and more.
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Our volunteer crew at Permaculture South Australia is so excited to be hosting the next Australian Permaculture Convergence — the first time this biennial event has been held in SA for almost 30 years.
Tickets have now all been snapped up — but please join our mailing list to find out about the release of Online Viewing Tickets, plus Month of Permaculture and other APC-related events.
More information on speakers and workshops will be released soon.
Event schedule
April 2023
Toolkit for Resilience – creating a resilient future for ourselves, our communities, our society, our earth.
Saturday, 1 April – Monday, 1 May
Month of Permaculture
A month-long program of permaculture-themed events and experiences organised by community members.
Want to host your own event as part of the Month of Permaculture? Register your event here.
Friday, 21 April
Permaculture Celebration & Twilight Market
This fun, low-cost gathering is a great ‘taster’ event for those curious about permaculture and unable to attend the convergence. Formidable Vegetable will headline the evening so we can all dance together and celebrate sustainable living.
Saturday, 22 April – Monday, 24 April
Permaculture Convergence
The main event, with three epic days of workshops, hands-on activities, discussions, keynote presentations and social activities. All led by inspiring permaculture educators from around Australia and beyond.
SOLD OUT. JOIN MAILING LIST FOR ONLINE TICKET RELEASE
A more detailed APC event schedule will be released soon.
Stallholder callout: Permaculture Celebration and Twilight Market
Would you like the great chance to showcase your unique crafts, food products, artisan goods, and more to a community of change-makers and individuals who are passionate about sustainable living?
Apply to host a stall at our Permaculture Celebration and Twilight Market, being held on Friday, 21 April. Be quick, stallholder applications close 31 March.
Register to host your own Month of Permaculture event
Want to showcase your own permaculture project or sustainability activity? Register your event as part of the Month of Permaculture in April 2023 and invite the public to experience South Australia’s wide range of permaculture projects, businesses and events.
Anyone can apply to join the Month of Permaculture — it’s free to register your event and you keep all of your proceeds.
Your event topics might include:
- Permaculture Design Courses
- Permaculture Teacher Training
- Guided tours/walks
- Volunteer placements, stays at permaculture projects, WWOOFing
- Permablitzs and other place-based community activity
- Lectures and demonstrations
- Courses, workshops and masterclasses
- Art, music, comedy and fashion event
Event registrations will close in March 2023.
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Speakers
More information on speakers and workshops will be released soon!
Hannah Moloney
Good Life Permaculture
Permaculture educator, designer, activist, author and presenter on Gardening Australia, Hannah has been a long-time leading advocate bringing permaculture and localised-sustainability into the mainstream, and making it fun and accessible.
Costa Georgiadis
Gardening Australia
Costa Georgiadis is a landscape architect and host of ABC’s Gardening Australia, who has an all-consuming passion for plants and people. His holistic approach is all about gardening the soil and the soul.
Kirsten Bradley
Milkwood
Known for her advocacy and workshops in permaculture skills, Kirsten founded Milkwood with Nick Ritar in 2007. She is an experienced grower, natural beekeeper, pickler, forager teacher, learner and community builder — and the author of best-selling books Milkwood: Real Skills for Down-to-Earth Living and Easy Peasy. She is a bit in love with seaweed, also.
Eugenio ‘Ego’ Lemos
Permatil
An Earth Hall of Fame Award recipient in 2019, Ego is an environmental activist, musician, writer and educator from Timor-Leste. Creator and director of Permatil, leading over 20 years of sustained and growing impact through permaculture, food-sovereignty and water restoration projects across Timor-Leste and internationally.
Brenna Quinlan
Permaculture Illustrator
Brenna Quinlan is an illustrator and educator who strives to make the world a better place through her art and her actions. She co-runs Grow Do It Permaculture Education, bringing climate solutions to kids (and their grown ups) through art, music and creativity. Brenna is currently building her own strawbale house out of reclaimed materials in Western Australia on Noongar boodja.
Walter Jehne
Healthy Soils Australia
An inspirational and engaging soil scientist, focusing on healthy soil as a key platform for climate mitigation, adaptation and our resilient future. Making the technical easily digestible, Walter explains how this happens and how we can be the change-makers to restore ecosystem function in our back yards, farms and beyond
Annemarie & Graham Brookman
The Food Forest
Founders of the inspirational 15-hectare Food Forest at Gawler, Annemarie and Graham are leaders and elders of the permaculture community in South Australia and beyond.
Formidable Vegetable
Permaculture Funk-Swing Band
With a wheelbarrow full of dirty electro radish-beets, crusty jazz ukulele, swingin’ strings and hyperactive horns, Formidable Vegetable are here to sow the garden of your mind with seeds of future-resilience in the funkiest way possible.
How you can help
Pay it forward
While APC tickets are now sold out, you still have the option of ‘paying it forward’.
These funds will be used to support people who cannot afford to attend, with preference given to Indigenous attendees.
Register to volunteer
Permaculture South Australia is calling on you, our community, to contribute and help make this APC event the best it can be.
Interested in getting involved? Simply complete our volunteer ‘expression of interest’ form. Many hands make light work, and many brains make great ideas!
Become a sponsor
Sponsorship is a great way help upskill and inspire participants to take action at home and communities. In practical terms, your sponsorship will help ensure the APC is affordable for individuals and families.
Contact Nat at apc@permaculturesa.org.au for more information.
The location
The Australian Permaculture Convergence 2023 will be held at the beautiful Mount Barker Waldorf School, at Yaktunga / Mount Barker in South Australia’s Adelaide Hills. On-site camping will be available.
Frequently Asked Questions
Got questions? Our volunteer team is regularly adding to a helpful list of FAQs for you...
Sponsors
A huge thanks to these generous people and businesses for sponsoring the APC 2023.
Supporters
And thanks to the following organisations for kindly providing in-kind support.
Get in Touch
Have any questions or great ideas? Get in touch with Natalya and help us make this Australian Permaculture Convergence the best it can be.