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Permaculture Festival 2018 — cold and windy but a great start to APC14

5 Jun, 2018 | Permaculture Gatherings

A heavy overcast sky and a strong cold wind made it a day for wooly sweaters and warm jackets as the Permaculture Festival 2018 at Canberra City farm got underway. The weather failed to dampen either the festivities and enthusiasm nor the music of The Incredible Vegetable Sound System.
Among the fruit trees and vegetable gardens of the city farm, the Permaculture Festival was a fine start to the next four days of the 14th Australasian Permaculture Convergence at Cotter, by the Murrumbidgee on the outskirts of Canberra.

Sound is energy and the upbeat sound of the Incredible Vegetable Sound System gave people the energy to get up and dance away late-autumn’s chill at the Permaculture Festival at Canberra City Farm.

Singer/songwriter, Charlie McGee, mixes important messages and entertainment with the the Incredible Vegetable Sound System.

APC14 — a convergence to remember

5 Jun, 2018 | Permaculture Gatherings

Canberra in autumn. It might have started overcast, cold and blowy but the skies brightened, the wind dissipated and the cold vanished as APC14 — the 14th Australasian permaculture Convergence — got underway.
Here’s a-photo essay of the event…

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APC14 — participants have a say

5 Jun, 2018 | PA News

Harmonious, informative and convivial — that was APC14, the 2018 Australasian Permaculture Convergence in Canberra this past April.
In this page of short video clips, participants say what they thought of the event and where they are headed next in permaculture.
Note for photographers: Video clips shot on iPhone 7 Plus with sound recorded by Rode Video Micro microphone. Edited on Splice on mobile device. Formatted for this presentation on Adobe Spark Page.

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Permaculture by pen and brush

26 May, 2018 | Permaculture Gatherings

BRENNA QUINLAN brings a new skill to permaculture: graphic documentation.
Not only did Brenna illustrate David Holmgren’s 2018 book, Retrosuburbia, she documented Australasian Permaculture Convergence 14 in Canberra this past April.
Here’s a photo essay of this talented young woman at work.

A festival, good food, music, sharing, conviviality — that was APC14 in Canberra

22 Apr, 2018 | Permaculture Gatherings

It was awesome! As attendees of Australasian Permaculture Convergence 14 (APC14) left on the tours following the gathering in Canberra, those heading homewards took time to reflect on what a constructive blend of ideas, conversation, workshops and good food this event was.
Sitting in the workshops and sessions, we saw evidence of an Aboriginal agriculture and ideas for a new approach to farming, ideas for remaking suburbia and for creating a new economics, we saw permaculture people working with refugees and in communities, and we heard from people local and far away. What we left with was a sense of the breadth of permaculture practice today and an insight into the thinking of permaculture practitioners.

Congratulations an insufficient word

Congratulations is an insufficient word to say to the NSW South Coast/ACT crew who organised this event.
When two years ago, at APC13 in Perth they put up their collective hand to organise the Canberra gathering, they knew it would be a demanding job. Yet they carried it off to give us a smooth-running convergence that mixed ideas and knowledge with conviviality and the buzz of colleagues and friends engaged in the important work of making our land, our continent, our towns, our cities, our countryside a better place.
Insufficient it might be, let all who attended say to them — Yah… CONGRATULATIONS — and thanks.

The organising crew who made APC14 run so smoothly.

And the next APC?

And APC15 in two years time? Where will that be? There was only one region that put itself forward to host the event. Looks like we’re headed north to the subtropics, to Brisbane. Fortunately, that will be in the cooler months. There, another team of more-than-capable permaculture practitioners will give us another more-than-convivial Australasian Permaculture Convergence.
Let us once again catch-up there and share our adventures in good design as we build a safe operating space for humanity in this age of the Anthropocene.