An old sage once noted fruit flies like an apple, while time flies like an arrow….indeed.
So now it’s that time of the year again for all of us to take stock, organise the garden, get one’s life in order and develop a schedule for the warmer season and the new year.
The first thing you need to get is the 2015 permacalendar.
This deceptively simple but thought-provoking permaculture calendar is for your home or workplace. Illustrating one of the twelve permaculture design principles each month gives you the time to absorb them. Each month’s example includes an image and story of locally appropriate sustainable living and design, demonstrating that month’s principle.
The new 2015 version includes a basic planting guide that will make it easy for you to get productive crops and healthier plants by planning your garden activities according to the moon phases.
Plan, prepare and propagate with the permacalendar 2015.

2026 Venie Prize winner
Here is what judge Peter O’Mara had to say about all of the poems entered in this year’s Venie Prize: In such a conjectural, estranged times, this year’s entries arrived, not coincidentally, from a multifarious array of the environmental poetry index — the polemical, the elegiac, the embodied, the observed, the incidental, the expansive, the



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