China is deploying permaculture “at scale” to redesign ecological systems and infrastructure for adaptive resilience.
Being flat, highly productive, with deposited soils and many canals, the world’s deltas will be challenged by global warming. Preparatory work has been done for the Yangtze Delta.
Three serious threats
Water invasion
Coastal erosion
Saltwater intrusion
The Yangtze Delta may only be viable for about the next 100 years because the estimated rise in the ocean by that time would cover it. It has a short-term but no long-term future. How to make the best permaculture design decisions under these conditions is challenging. About 127 million people live there, and the delta also produces huge amounts of food for China.
Originally, deltas around the world would have been enormous buffering wetlands that have been cleared and drained over millennia. Nature constantly tries to return them to their original state, which was better for climate and wildlife. In fact, although impractical, allowing and assisting the region to return to wetlands would be the most protective and sustainable response to global warming and coastal inundation. Wetlands protect and buffer big flows of water.
Working in a huge delta is a disturbing experience and a challenge for permaculture designers. Its flat land and waters are threatened by rising seas and global warming, incursions of brackish water and pollution of canals. Altogether, it presents a new landscape for permaculture designers considering water management and hydration. How to catch and store water in what is virtually a wetland presents enormous challenges.
Delta communities and agriculture comprise a multitude of canals that were once used for most transport, yet their condition shows a lack of understanding of how nature cleans water. The canals are full of rubbish and very polluted. Developing a fringe of plants known as macrophytes along the canals, to extract pollutants as water moves from land to canal, would assist enormously. There is work to be done here.
Delta ecological protection
Environmental protection design in the Yangtze River Delta focuses on integrating regional ecological security patterns, sustainable urban-rural development and high-tech monitoring. Key features include constructing ecological corridors, using “sponge city” techniques, restoring water networks through polders (dykes and berms), implementing strict ecological red lines, and advancing zero-carbon, climate-responsive architectural designs to support sustainable development.
Shanghai
The Shanghai Centre of Creativity and Innovation under Wei Min is part of a team working on this challenge in Shanghai and the greater delta region. Valuable short-term work has been done on wetlands in the region, with a remarkable increase in bird numbers and other wetland species. Wetlands are one of the region’s original ecosystems, protecting and buffering big flows of water.
In Shanghai, renewable energy is visible everywhere. Streets are cleaner, quieter and greener than I have seen in Australia, and people are proud of their progress. China jumped from bicycles to electric bicycles in a wide range of types and styles—it seems there is the right one for each person. Parking is easy. In this way, much of the city has avoided the challenging impacts of noise and pollution caused by fossil fuels. By moving from bicycles to electric bicycles, they omitted the stage in transport innovation of every citizen owning a petrol- or diesel-powered car.
As one of the world’s great cities, Shanghai has many huge modern buildings, and the question arises of what is to be done with the fill from excavating underground areas used for parking and air conditioning. This is a problem city designers are working with.
Town planning in Shanghai, centred in the Centre of Creativity and Innovation, is outstanding. Among other activities, the team has listed and mapped community gardens in Shanghai and across China, as well as their progress and changes. The local gardens in Shanghai are a result of reclaiming part of a formerly wide street. Gardens along the road edges give pedestrians a sense of enclosure, while double planting of street trees provides protection through an overhead canopy. A public noise monitor records and displays street noise in decibels.
With the increasingly tumultuous conditions and declining predictability of our current climate systems, we’re now seeing extreme weather events occurring more frequently than in recent history. Our once-in-100-year events are now turning into once every couple of decades—or less—with no sign of their pace alleviating. Due to the expansive nature of Earth’s cycles compared with the relatively brief length of a human lifetime, and even less our awareness, it seems like planning for these types of incidents is perpetually left to the next generation: “We’ll be long gone before it affects us!”
Our collective lack of foresight, disregard of the past beyond a few decades, and stubborn mindset of “that’s the way we’ve always done it” feel like nails in a coffin struck hard by the hammer of our precarious complacency and refusal to adapt in the face of reality.
Whether or not the climate is changing because of us or a natural cyclic phenomenon beyond our human timescales, there is change happening. The magnitude of this change, in conjunction with our increasing population growth, means more and more of us will be exposed to extreme weather events in both scale and frequency. Unless we change the way we look at civil and environmental design, water and energy infrastructure, and utilising what we already have, future damage projections and loss of life will follow the same trend as our population—exponential.
The intention is all well and good, but what on earth does this look like in the physical realm? What can we actually do to ameliorate the inevitable effects of extreme weather conditions on our human lifestyles? Like everything else in permaculture, the solution is in the problem.
Observation-led design
Prevalent disasters will vary between geographical locations on the planet. However, one thing will always aid in preparing for any of them: observation. This is much the same as doing an initial design for a property, where you spend time on the site working out data such as sun aspect, prevailing wind direction, soil type and pH, animal movement and species lists.
If fire is your biggest risk, observe fuel load, fire-resistant plant species, escape routes and contingencies.
If you’re on the coastline, consider storm surges, high winds, land reclamation and tsunamis.
If drought is your concern, look at water retention in the soil, passive rain collection, hardy species, swales, mulch and erosion prevention.
All of these events and more can be safeguarded against with insightful, innovative and intrinsic design. This way, no matter what nature throws at us, we can be highly prepared by utilising nature itself as an ally. In the end, there is no “bad” weather when our designs are well thought out and robust.
A practical example: preparing for a cyclone
In March 2025, I was preparing for Tropical Cyclone Alfred in the Lockyer Valley, Queensland, Australia. Having observed the climate and land in south-east Queensland my entire life definitely gave me an advantage, as I had been expecting a “big one”—a flood—for months.
Animal behaviour over the two weeks leading up to the event had altered, especially among ants and kookaburras. This always leads me to believe in the presence of an imminent event—in this case, rain.
The land was dry and expanded after several weeks of summer sun and temperatures in the mid-30s, so a large deluge would “hit the ground running”, so to speak, and not spend very long absorbing into the soil.
As of the morning before, there was the potential for rainfall of 500–1000 mm over the coming week. This was greater than the total annual rainfall this region receives on average. That is why I always factor in extreme values when doing designs: find out your total annual average and plan for that to fall in a 24–48-hour period. Can your system handle that? Can you capture all the runoff? Or, at the very least, slow it down and store it somewhere?
Fortunately, a lot of the physical preparation for an event like this is already part of my end-of-summer routine: line-trim grass and spread the cuts like mulch; collect dead branches; chop firewood; clean up debris; and burn off cut or pruned branches and weeds.
Other non-garden tasks included relocating a 1000 L water tank in Zone 1 directly under a leaky gutter corner. This not only catches escaping water, but also gives me a backup source in case the power goes out and the pump cannot send water from the main tanks to the house.
I released the water from a 1000 L IBC tank that captures the garage water, as it had been sitting for a while and I wanted an empty tank for this event. The released water spread down the backyard, making it slightly less dry and ideally helping it absorb more water over the coming days.
Next, I did a property walk to ensure there were no potential “kites” or things that could be picked up by strong winds. Doing this regularly is always a good idea to keep a property clean and free of foreign objects that may not even be yours.
Inside the house, I spent the weekend washing all the laundry, including linen, as this might not get a chance to happen again for a while. I charged batteries for tools and lights; emptied rubbish bins; audited food and made an items list; planned meals around perishables and a possible fridge or power outage; prepared a bag of ice and an esky; filled the car with fuel and checked that it was mechanically sound; and packed a grab bag. Getting the kids to help you plan is a good way to build their awareness and involve them, too.
After a large rain event
I was in that particular dwelling for six years and observed every weather event and its impact on the property. A recurring problem was the garage flooding from water flowing off the driveway. The topsoil had disappeared long before I moved in, leaving claypan and rocks. This meant any water that fell would not absorb and would flow off as if the ground were concrete, especially during heavy falls.
After several events, the erosion channels that formed showed me where to redirect the water most effectively and then dig. The flooding garage issue was solved by implementing just one seven-metre-long straight trench in the right place.
Big ambitions on the horizon, the “big spending board” is not looking at spending less, but making more. The consensus is Permaculture Australia needs to be seriously considering our identity, and our future. Who are we? What do we do? And how are we going to make the money we need to change the world, at every scale, sink or swim.
Call for bold action
From my heart, me, Sam, our youth are drowning in a hopeless future. A future run by AI and callous tech billionaires on a dystopic sinking ship. We need a revolution and we know that. But this revolution can’t be a quiet one peddling slowly in the background, maybe one day gearing up to do something. This revolution needs to be the central focus of those committed to it, and I am wholeheartedly of the belief that means it needs to support families, young people, career driven individuals, and the like.
The change we need
Currently permaculture Australia cannot support the incredible people that run it, which means they must either dig deep and become self-made business people to stay focused on permaculture (driving them away from being able to afford the time to volunteer), struggle financially, or do it part-time. The change we need is not a parttime gig, but a full time journey to a better future. There is a trillion dollar carbon off-setting industry, a 1.2 trillion dollar corporate social responsibility industry, a 7.3 trillion dollar education industry, and of course a lot more, all extremely relevant to our beautiful little organisation. Our children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, and all future generations need us to grab these potential opportunities by the horns. We need to hit hard or we won’t have a home to go to.
Permaculture Australia's Full Potential
So with that, here’s the absolute excitement of what is happening: The event circle is charging forward with our biggest potential income for Permaculture Australia, and a culture of self-financing is being embraced in many circles. Different circles are talking about how money is going to come into their activities, and how key people are going to be taken care of. The culture of Permaculture Australia was born aiming for the stars, so we need to make sure we’re adequately resourced to get there.
Aligning for Collective Impact
Hopefully all of us here at Permaculture Australia are lining up together as the team necessary to further this, focused on how activities can bring in resources, namely money in the context of a charity, and I am personally very willing to work with anyone who is. Excitement is a natural disposition for me, considering the possible future we could live in and I am looking forward to what this future holds if we act.
Excuse my religiosity but I must wrap this up with a small excerpt from the Holy Quran as it is what steadies my heart in a cataclysmic sea of current and future events:
“Corruption has spread on land and sea as a result of what people’s hands have done, so that Allah may cause them to taste ‘the consequences of’ some of their deeds and perhaps they might return ‘to the right path’.”
May we all focus on the path ahead and find our guiding lights to keep our hearts buoyant and determined in increasingly dark times.
Thanks,
Sam Parker-Davies Treasurer & Board Youth Ambassador
In my work as the Chair of Permaculture International Ltd, active engagement in global and local change maker communities and experience as a professional transformational steward for the past 20 years across both “old” and “new” systems, I have the privilege of observing many patterns that relate to the conditions described above. Additionally, I have the opportunity to think deeply and discuss with peers, perspectives on the role of stewardship that the Permaculture International Ltd Board and the movement itself must embrace if it is to fulfil its potential.
I would like to take the opportunity to share these views as a starting point for a more formal discussion forum which we will be co-hosting soon for permaculture leaders around the world and a series of open forums we will be scheduling over the next 12 months.
Permaculture stewardship in a polarised world
The polarisation we see manifesting every day, from a systemic perspective, is an exponential acceleration of BOTH:
the most extreme elements of the incumbent extractive world order designed around principles of dominance of man and separation from nature, and
the proliferation of multiple scales of nested regenerative systems designed around the principles of interconnected earth care, people care and fair share that the Permaculture movement and many others based on the same principles have been quietly designing and implementing over the past 50 years on every continent in the world.
The Western World is not ready for this challenge, not because proven solutions to the problems don’t exist, they do, at every scale, but because the solutions to the problems do not serve the critical requirements for survival for the incumbent system.
The challenge we have as individuals, as citizens, as a community, as leaders and as a movement is to understand how to meet this moment.
“Meeting people where they are” – a framing dilemma
How do we “meet people where they are” when much of the world doesn’t know such solutions are real and are accessible in their own communities and the prevailing narrative prevents the message from being heard?
Some of the answer to this question can be found in sharing the stories of communities, cities and countries that have embraced permaculture design principles alongside their own unique cultures and contexts having either:
already experienced “collapse” through war or environmental exploitation (e.g. Vietnam, Timor Leste, India) or
proactively applied a fully informed context of systemic foresight to design and invest in the ecological, social and infrastructural systems alongside carbon emissions agendas to enable their populations access a liveable future (China, Singapore).
We will be starting to address this education gap this month as we kick off a new section of this newsletter detailing many of the large-scale permaculture design collaborations built on unique local foundations in every instance.
The more challenging aspect will be reclaiming the framing around what it means to create resilient, adaptive and regenerative conditions for life in our own communities in a way that resonates with audiences currently dominated by fear.
So, what’s “framing” got to do with it?
Let’s start by answering a question that we have all asked ourselves at some point as we witness the runaway success of “far right” political parties all over the world.
Q. “Why do the people who will be most harmed by the policies of these parties, so passionately support them?” A. Framing – the “far right” know how to tap into an audience’s deeply held worldviews, emotions, or cultural assumptions. This changes perception without altering the core facts.
Let’s expand this by using statements made above.
The sentence “the challenge we have as individuals, as citizens, as a community, as leaders and as a movement is to understand how to meet this moment” could be interpreted in two ways:
If you innately believe that you are a human being in a deeply interconnected world with a sense of personal responsibility that aligns with this worldview and values system, you will connect with this as a “call to collective action”. (This is the belief system of “progressives” in a political sense)
If you innately believe that it is the responsibility of every individual to fend for themselves in a hostile world and identify with the view that the pursuit of your own individual desires will lead a prosperous society through the “invisible hand”, then you will not feel the pull of the collective call to action. (This is the belief system of the “conservatives” in a political sense)
The concept of a “steward” is a prime example of the power of framing. Regardless of the fact that “stewardship” is and has always been defined in the dictionary and in law as “acting as a caretaker or guardian rather than the absolute owner, prioritising long-term sustainability, accountability, and the well-being of others”, the conservative moral frame is so embedded in our incumbent worldview that most board directors believe they are stewards of short term shareholder returns, political leaders are stewards of the right to hold power and citizens accept this as a truth.
Essentially, the “conservative” worldview is so embedded in our society, and the incumbent players are so skilled at framing the narrative, backed by 50 years of reinforcement through funding of education systems and institutional investment and daily repetition in news, social media and everyday conversation, that facts simply do not matter when used to counter language already hijacked by the moral framing of that worldview.
The belief that “facts will set us free” is simply not true in such a world. It’s why 50 years of “truth telling” and now irrefutable, data backed evidence about climate change, earth degradation, ocean acidification, extreme wealth gaps and poverty statistics etc have not worked to “wake people up”.
How is this relevant to the positioning of Permaculture in this moment of reaching a “tipping point” for the emergence of new systems?
Permaculture and all other related “nature systems centred” movements are led by people who have “progressive” worldviews. People with such worldviews have been busy doing a range of things over the past 30 years:
Focus
Outcomes
Relevance to Permaculture Positioning
REFORMING THE INCUMBENT SYSTEM
Fighting to reform the “old system” with facts, data and truth – believing that the truth will “wake people up”.
Only incremental change was achieved as adoption was only within the boundaries of the incumbent system’s tolerance and with no genuinely systematic lens on inter-related earth and human systems.
This has never been and is certainly not now our “work to do” as Permaculture International Limited. (NB PIL exists to promote the wise utilisation of the ecological, agricultural, horticultural, silvicultural, viticultural, aquacultural, social, residential and economic resources of Australia and elsewhere through education, information dissemination and consultation and through the theoretical and practical application of Permaculture design principles.) The “old system” cannot be reformed and effort spent here is effort not spent elsewhere. This is why we have never done traditional “advocacy” that attempts to “reform” policy.
Trying to convince those with conservative views “using their language” to “meet them where they are” without understanding the moral framing embedded within our culture.
Served to reinforce existing world views – it’s how cognition works (George Lakoff – Don’t Think of an Elephant). One of the key reasons why the most vulnerable are flocking to the far right – vulnerable people feeling abandoned and marginalised resonate with the “fight for yourself” narrative.
The Permaculture movement has tried to do this with the idea of “a revolution disguised as gardening”. Although this has been very successful in some respects, in general, the outcome of this is that most people believe that Permaculture IS gardening, even within the “nature-centric” movements of regeneration and bioregionalism. We need to change the narrative, bring the work of the movement at all scales into view and take our place alongside all other new systems movements.
DESIGNING NEW SYSTEMS – “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” — Buckminster Fuller
Western World Lens
Proliferation of permaculture and related work round ethical principles of interconnected earth, people and fair share, primarily as an “alternative” lifestyle choice – now reaching a “tipping point” with the acceleration of the bioregional lens as a context for minimal viable conditions.
The right work for the time for the Permaculture movement over the past 50 years since our birth at the time of the Oil Crisis and the first publishing of Limits to Growth – Donella Meadows. We need to revisit this framing with a fresh narrative at this next Oil Crisis moment having reached the Limits to Growth on our planet as predicted.
Majority World Lens
Significant examples of permaculturists working alongside collapsed communities and countries and proactive nations combining permaculture design principles with unique cultural contexts to rebuild self-sufficiency, and regenerate bioregional landscapes, economies, ecologies and identity.
Much of this work is invisible in the western world for what it is – genuine system change designed around interconnected earth and human systems that enable self-sustaining economies of sufficiency and dignity for all. We must find ways to reframe this work in the minds and hearts of a much broader audience and actively work with majority nations who have already implemented these systems to amplify the message.
REFORMING THE INCUMBENT SYSTEM
Focus
Fighting to reform the “old system” with facts, data and truth – believing that the truth will “wake people up”.
Outcomes
Only incremental change was achieved as adoption was only within the boundaries of the incumbent system’s tolerance and with no genuinely systematic lens on inter-related earth and human systems.
Relevance to Permaculture Positioning
This has never been and is certainly not now our “work to do” as Permaculture International Limited. (NB PIL exists to promote the wise utilisation of the ecological, agricultural, horticultural, silvicultural, viticultural, aquacultural, social, residential and economic resources of Australia and elsewhere through education, information dissemination and consultation and through the theoretical and practical application of Permaculture design principles.) The “old system” cannot be reformed and effort spent here is effort not spent elsewhere. This is why we have never done traditional “advocacy” that attempts to “reform” policy.
Focus
Trying to convince those with conservative views “using their language” to “meet them where they are” without understanding the moral framing embedded within our culture.
Outcomes
Served to reinforce existing world views – it’s how cognition works (George Lakoff – Don’t Think of an Elephant). One of the key reasons why the most vulnerable are flocking to the far right – vulnerable people feeling abandoned and marginalised resonate with the “fight for yourself” narrative.
Relevance to Permaculture Positioning
The Permaculture movement has tried to do this with the idea of “a revolution disguised as gardening”. Although this has been very successful in some respects, in general, the outcome of this is that most people believe that Permaculture IS gardening, even within the “nature-centric” movements of regeneration and bioregionalism. We need to change the narrative, bring the work of the movement at all scales into view and take our place alongside all other new systems movements.
DESIGNING NEW SYSTEMS
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” — Buckminster Fuller
Focus
Western World Lens – Proliferation of permaculture and related work round ethical principles of interconnected earth, people and fair share, primarily as an “alternative” lifestyle choice – now reaching a “tipping point” with the acceleration of the bioregional lens as a context for minimal viable conditions.
Relevance to Permaculture Positioning
The right work for the time for the Permaculture movement over the past 50 years since our birth at the time of the Oil Crisis and the first publishing of Limits to Growth – Donella Meadows. We need to revisit this framing with a fresh narrative at this next Oil Crisis moment having reached the Limits to Growth on our planet as predicted.
Focus
Majority World Lens – Significant examples of permaculturists working alongside collapsed communities and countries and proactive nations combining permaculture design principles with unique cultural contexts to rebuild self-sufficiency, and regenerate bioregional landscapes, economies, ecologies and identity.
Relevance to Permaculture Positioning
Much of this work is invisible in the western world for what it is – genuine system change designed around interconnected earth and human systems that enable self-sustaining economies of sufficiency and dignity for all. We must find ways to reframe this work in the minds and hearts of a much broader audience and actively work with majority nations who have already implemented these systems to amplify the message.
What will we do next?
We need to acknowledge many hard truths and design a new story that resonates with our audiences.
We are commencing a process of deep and broad research and gathering of the past 50 years of proven solutions on every continent to the problems of our time, to understand how we must tell our story in a way that resonates with audiences with all worldviews and most importantly with a context that is relevant to everyone in their own place.
We will be sharing this journey as we go and inviting participation at every stage.
Mkulima Sasa, a Syntropic Agroforestry education and demonstration centre near Lake Victoria, Kenya, has significantly expanded its impact thanks to an AUD$2000 grant from Permafund. This funding facilitated the growth of demonstration farms, enhanced training programs and the installation of a rainwater harvesting system.
Key Achievements:
Enhanced Irrigation & Demonstration Plot: A new 30-metre plot, irrigated by the harvested rainwater, now showcases the power of syntropic agroforestry. It features 60 diverse trees (soursop, avocado, orange, pomegranate, grevillea, banana, palm) arranged in two lines, with a rich understory of vegetables (kales, cowpeas, African spider plants, sweet potatoes, cassava) and ground crops (sesame, groundnuts, vetiver grass).
Empowering Local Communities: Training sessions, including practical demonstrations, were conducted for diverse groups, including people with disabilities, youth, women, and men. Participants learned the principles of Syntropic Agroforestry Management.
Seed & Seedling Distribution: Mkulima Sasa provided trainees with seedlings and seeds, fostering a culture of exchange and enabling them to establish their own syntropic systems at home.
School Outreach: A 20-metre demonstration bed, featuring 40 trees and ground crops, was established at Mirando Junior School, engaging 20 students. Staff members were also trained to act as future instructors.
Growing Interest: The project has generated considerable interest, with increasing numbers of people visiting the demonstration farms, seeking information and requesting assistance in establishing their own systems.
Observations & Future Directions:
While the adoption of syntropic agriculture is currently far less than traditional monoculture practices, Mkulima Sasa remains optimistic about its future growth.
Strengthening security through improved fencing around the demonstration sites is a priority.
Ongoing mentorship and follow-up support for trainees are helpful for ensuring the long-term success of their syntropic systems.
Permafund thanks Andronico Otieno of the Mkulima Sasa Regenerative Agriculture for providing timely and comprehensive project updates.
Your donations make projects like this possible. Contributions to Permafund over $2 are tax deductible in Australia and can be made here. Thank you for your support.
Last year Permafund funded a project in Zanzibar, Tanzania that combined a permaculture course with a mangrove restoration project. The applicants, Up with Community, demonstrated a good understanding of the ecosystem services provided by mangroves (including erosion control, flora and fauna nurseries and climate change mitigation including blue carbon). Permafund liked the integrated learning approach that combined Permaculture principles with the restoration of the natural environment.
Mangroves are particularly vulnerable to human threats including pollution, tourism, aquaculture and agriculture. Although rates of mangrove destruction have slightly declined this century their destruction will probably be complete by the end of it. Up with Community have planted 1000 mangrove seedlings in a degraded area. We are now working with them to help them succeed and see what we can learn and apply elsewhere.
Any reforestation is a fraught process that often has a high failure rate. Reasons for this include a lack of addressing the cause of deforestation (e.g. climate change, salinity levels), failure to monitor and protect seedlings and saplings (eg herbivore predation) failure to monitor and protect mature trees (e.g. from firewood collection).
We view efforts to counter this depressing scenario as particularly worthy. But we only want to support approaches that work in the applicant’s location. Six months in we’ve found that their implementation of directly planting seedlings is showing an unusually high success rate - a reported 80% compared to 20% for usual long-term survival when hand planting is used.
As is typical we’ve surveyed the research around the applicant’s domain of interest.
The effectiveness of mangrove restoration varies wildly. Costs can range from $65 to $810,000 per hectare! Approaches can be active (e.g. hand planting, dropping propagules from drones or planes) or passive, such as digging channels to maximise settling of floating propagules (mangrove seeds). Finding appropriate technologies for things like site analysis can quickly become complex. Big, well-funded organisations deploy experts - geologists, ecologists and hydrologists to name a few.
Up with Community lacks these resources, so Permafund is in dialogue with them about the applicability of current research (especially passive restoration - see MANGROVE ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION in GUIDE: LESSONS LEARNED) and the advisability of partnering with existing mangrove initiatives in Tanzania.
One such initiative Permafund already checked out is Blue Carbon Tanzania. While their website showcases an all-African staff and brightly clad locals planting seedlings, it fails to mention its ownership by the UAE-based Blue Carbon, a company that has drawn significant criticism from environmentalists. So we won’t be recommending that one. As I mentioned, reforestation is fraught!
Permafund uses permaculture principles to holistically assess and evaluate the projects we fund, usually on a one-off basis. We track projects and collect lessons learned which are shared with others and added to the body of permaculture knowledge.
In the coming months, we will report on the progress of Up with Community, whether more passive and holistic approaches have been incorporated and if the overall effort resulted in a successful outcome.
Your donations to Permafund make community projects like this possible so thank you very much for your support. Contributions to Permafund over $2 are tax deductible in Australia and can be made here.
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