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Artist as Family’s all-day house and garden tour (subsistence permaculture and belonging economies in action)

Oct 30, 2024 | Artist as Family tour, belonging economies, biodiversity, community sufficiency, eldership, energy descent, fermenting, food medicine, food sovereignty, foraging, fruit trees, garden design, gift economy, goats, harvesting, health, home economies, humanure, interspecies relating, lifemaking, locavorism, low-carbon, medicinal plants, neopeasant education, permaculture, politics, preserving, radical homemakers, reculturing, regenerative culture, regenerative farming, relationships, School of Applied Neopeasantry, social warming, story, the commons, transitional communities, uncapitalised food, uncapitalised medicine, village rebuilding, walked-for food, wood energy | 13 comments

 

Are you needing renewed motivation and focus in your transition to a more resilient lifeway? Are you curious about how our family lives at home with little reliance on civilisation’s industrial machine? Do you feel economically trapped? Do you sense economic and political troubles ahead and want to better future-proof your household? Are you wanting to live with less debt and more relationship with the living of the world? Are you wanting to say, Fuck off! to all the con men and women (the captains of industries) in the very way that you live, and do this positively? Do you want to embody your politics and values and thus dance your talk? Do you want to learn simple hacks for living with less money and more time? If one or more of these questions resonates, then our all-day house and garden tour might well be for you.

Over the day we will cover self and community care,

re-commoning,

annual vegetables cultivation,

annual vegetable food harvesting,

fermenting

and storing the harvests,

alchemising all manners of substances from one thing

into another,

tending perennial food biomes,

making humus,

changing behaviours,

cultivating eldership,

and generally establishing and maintaining a belonging economy.

Tour details

Date: Sunday 17 November, 10am – 4pm, Djaara Mother Country, central Victoria (address will be supplied with booking).

Topics covered include: community-sufficiency, household economies, replacing fiat with compost, subsistence resilience, access to land, ecological economics, permacultural neopeasantry, fermentation for both thrift and health, organic food that low income households can afford, green gym (or active economics), children in the household biome, transitioning to a non-reliance on predatory capitalism, future proofing by skilling up, food-medicine and active disease prevention, trading fear for empowerment, self-care and unintentional communities and neighbourhoods, composting ideology with joyous pragmatism.

The tour includes: Sharings from Meg, Woody and Patrick; morning tea; a neopeasant lunch with special guests, permaculture elders Su Dennett and David Holmgren; afternoon tea; and plenty of time for questions.

Cost: $100 per person (this is the concession price; feel free to pay more if you would like to further contribute to our work).

Who is it for: The day is informationally dense so we request 16 year olds and up only, please. Participants will need to navigate uneven surfaces and at times rough terrain.

To book: Please message us to book or ask any questions – we@artistasfamily.is

From field to forest

Jun 1, 2010 | bush food, community gardens, fruit trees, herbs, transitional communities | 6 comments

When you get right down to it, there are few agricultural practices that are really necessary – Masanobu Fukuoka

While Meg and Zephyr were digging up more potatoes and tickling the first garlic shoots up out of the frosty Djadjawurrung soil in the home garden, Anna Davis (MCA) and Patrick met with the St Michael’s church wardens late last week to finalise the agreement to allow the Food Forest to go ahead on this ancient Cadigal site in Surry Hills, Sydney. Here are the set of working drawings Patrick presented to the group on behalf of the Artist as Family. (click for bigger)





Some members from the local community, including both church and non-church groups, have now been asked to choose from this plant list their more desired fruit, herbs and nuts. If you wish to participate in the development of this Food Forest please comment below your desired food plants and we’ll see how we can include your suggestions as we begin to source plants. But be quick as we aim to start planting in the first week of July, pending approval from the traditional owners.
Anyone wishing to help us with the planting in July please follow this blog and we’ll keep you informed as to the when and how. Indigenous locals and non-indigenous residents who can help build information relating to Cadigal plants and medicines, your input is highly sought after.