David Holmgren – Permaculture stories celebrating floristic and fungal abundance

In December 2022, David Holmgren gave a presentation at the Garden Sates conference in Melbourne, Australia, organised by Entheogenesis Australis, a charitable, educational organisation established in 2004 to provide opportunities for critical thinking and knowledge sharing on ethnobotanical plants, fungi, nature and sustainability.

In his presentation, David draws on a lifelong passion for ethnobotanical knowledge and practise to tell stories that celebrate abundance and diversity, pushing the boundaries of social and, at times, legal norms. His true stories cut paths through the psychosocial wilderness towards a relocalised ethnobotany of the everyday to sustain us in the shadow of failing techno industrial civilisation.