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Title: Natural Beekeeping: Apr 2013: SydneyVenue: Alexandria Park Community Centre / SydneyCategory: Natural BeekeepingDate: Apr 20 2013 - Apr 21 2013Time: 9:00am - 5:00pm Description: Join Tim Malfroy of Malfroy's Gold as he leads you through the basics of bee-friendly, natural, organic, small-scale beekeeping. You will leave this course with a competent knowledge of the fundamentals of natural beekeeping, and be ready to take the plunge and keep your own bees, Warré style!The course will focus on a style of apiculture that is exclusively designed for the small-scale beekeeper. This bee-friendly method aims to care for the bees, allow them to control their own environment, and is a gentler approach than conventional beekeeping, resulting in healthy contented bees, and superb raw honey.This course is a series of presentations that draw a wide perspective on the evolution of flowering plants and honeybees, and the long and rich tradition of apiculture. There will...

Title: Natural Beekeeping: Mar 2013: SydneyVenue: Alexandria Park Community Centre / SydneyCategory: Natural BeekeepingDate: Mar 23 2013 - Mar 24 2013Time: 9:00am - 5:00pm Description: Join Tim Malfroy of Malfroy's Gold as he leads you through the basics of bee-friendly, natural, organic, small-scale beekeeping. You will leave this course with a competent knowledge of the fundamentals of natural beekeeping, and be ready to take the plunge and keep your own bees, Warré style!The course will focus on a style of apiculture that is exclusively designed for the small-scale beekeeper. This bee-friendly method aims to care for the bees, allow them to control their own environment, and is a gentler approach than conventional beekeeping, resulting in healthy contented bees, and superb raw honey.This course is a series of presentations that draw a wide perspective on the evolution of flowering plants and honeybees, and the long and rich tradition of apiculture. There will...

Title: Natural Beekeeping: Feb 2013: SydneyVenue: Alexandria Park Community Centre / SydneyCategory: Natural BeekeepingDate: Feb 23 2013 - Feb 24 2013Time: 9:00am - 5:00pm Description: Join Tim Malfroy of Malfroy's Gold as he leads you through the basics of bee-friendly, natural, organic, small-scale beekeeping. You will leave this course with a competent knowledge of the fundamentals of natural beekeeping, and be ready to take the plunge and keep your own bees, Warré style!The course will focus on a style of apiculture that is exclusively designed for the small-scale beekeeper. This bee-friendly method aims to care for the bees, allow them to control their own environment, and is a gentler approach than conventional beekeeping, resulting in healthy contented bees, and superb raw honey.This course is a series of presentations that draw a wide perspective on the evolution of flowering plants and honeybees, and the long and rich tradition of apiculture. There will...

The Potato Bed 11...the Pea Beans are reaching out to their trellis, the Potatoes have been mounded up with aged manure and soil and Horseradish has been planted in a pot nearby as a Companion Plant for the Potatoes. Now for some mulch...Temperatures this week:Lowest Min 2.5CHighest Max 32.9CNo Recorded RainfallPropagation:Seeds:Beans Haricot Phaseolus vulgaris from Diggers - direct sown into Bed 7Beans Zagreb Soldier Phaseolus nanus from The Lost Seed - direct sown into Bed 5Beans Tongues Of Fire Phaseolus vulgaris from New Gippsland Seeds - direct sown into FRWB 1Beans Tepary Blue Speckled Phaseolus acutifolius from Inspirations Seeds - direct sown into FRWB 2Chickpeas White Cicer arietinum - direct sown into the small mound Bed in the Old Chook RunRockmelon Hales Best Cucumis melo cantaloupensis from local seed group - direct sown into Bed 3Sweetcorn Kelvedon Glory Zea mays from DT Brown - direct sown into the small mound...

Rideshare travel from Greenlane to Turangi Urban with Diane - "Could consider taking 2 passengers with limited luggage. Can pick up on the way if noone has show..." (RT @Jayride_NZ: Departing soon!See it on Scoop.it, via Aussies Living SimplyOriginal link...

Bicycle tour to showcase urban homesteadersThe Courier-JournalAs a co-founder of Bluegrass Bioneers, a regional group that looks for nature-based solutions to environmental and social problems, Phillipson-Mower is promoting the homesteading concept...See it on Scoop.it, via Aussies Living SimplyOriginal link...

William Blake, born in 1757, was a wise man, a great poet, artist and seer. According to William Butler Yeats, he was also of Irish stock, originally bearing the name I share with him, ‘O’Neill’. T...See it on Scoop.it, via Aussies Living SimplyOriginal link...

Support the Calling of the Global Elders Gathering. Help us deliver 3 unique Permaculture projects to this indigenous communities' cause.See it on Scoop.it, via Aussies Living SimplyOriginal link...

Your Olive BranchTransition Town Fujino Goes for Local Energy IndependenceYour Olive BranchAs we have explained before on Our World 2.0, the Transition Town Movement is an international network of grassroots groups that form to apply the theory of...See it on Scoop.it, via Aussies Living SimplyOriginal link...

Josh describes how pigs help us in transforming forest to gardens. www.DAcres.org D Acres is a non-profit Permaculture Farm & Educational Homestead located i...See it on Scoop.it, via Aussies Living SimplyOriginal link...

Bioshelter Market Garden: A Permaculture Farm (customer reviews) By (Cheap Bioshelter Market Garden: A...http://t.co/GicGaErK...)...See it on Scoop.it, via Aussies Living SimplyOriginal link...

Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability [David Holmgren] on Amazon.com. *FREE* super saver shipping on qualifying offers.See it on Scoop.it, via Aussies Living SimplyOriginal link...

http://www.permacultureplanet.com/ Meet a group of punks who are helping the over-populated and sprawling Mexico City launch an ecological revolution. From t...See it on Scoop.it, via Aussies Living SimplyOriginal link...

WeTheTrees enables and empowers people from all over the world to raise the funds needed to manifest their dreams, big and small. (Permaculture Crowd Funding · WeTheTrees: Crowdfunding Environmental Change.See it on Scoop.it, via Aussies Living SimplyOriginal link...

Title: Permaculture Design Certificate: Hobart: Apr 2013Venue: University of Tasmania / HobartCategory: Permaculture Design CertificateDate: Apr 20 2013 - May 3 2013Time: 9:00am - 5:00pm Description: Join Hannah Moloney, Nick Ritar, Adam Grubb & Cam Wilson for two weeks of permaculture theory, practical workshops, site visits and intensive design exercises exploring urban permaculture in the heart of Hobart and surrounds. PDC  graduates  will  leave  this  course  with  a  unique  insight  and   understanding   in   how   to   implement   permaculture   principles   into  the  urban  environment  and  community  projects. Permaculture is set of principles that result in sustainable and productive systems. Systems for living, architecture, food production, land management and community. No chemicals and no excuses. Just good, thoughtful, innovative and effective design for the needs of our species. During this PDC, examples of designing for energy conservation,  food production systems, nutrient cycling and more will all...

Permaculture Cities? I read the following article on the Permaculture Magazine website.See it on Scoop.it, via Aussies Living SimplyOriginal link

Dream of starting a farm? Here’s a guide to what questions to ask and where to find reliable answers, plus resources to help you obtain a farm loan.See it on Scoop.it, via Aussies Living SimplyOriginal link...

Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them.See it on Scoop.it, via Aussies Living SimplyOriginal link...

Ryan Harb (Pt. 1/4) Permaculture Talk to UMass Amherst Botany for Gardens Class ... Part 2/3 - Campus-Wide Design and Initial Planting Phase: UMass Permaculture Documentary Series ...See it on Scoop.it, via Aussies Living SimplyOriginal link...

We bought too much perlite when building our outdoor ovens. The store will not take it back. We have four huge bags of it. Not sure how to say the (Perlite in the garden? Is it organic?: We bought too much perlite when building our outdoor ovens.See it on Scoop.it, via Aussies Living SimplyOriginal link...