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permablitz Bellingen #7
Permablitz Bellingen #7 on Autumn equinox (Australia) 21 March 2010.
Permablitz (noun): An informal gathering involving a day on which a group of at least two people come together to achieve the following:
• create or add to edible gardens where someone lives
• share skills related to permaculture and sustainable living
• build community networks
• have fun
Permablitzes are free events, open to the public, where you learn a lot, share food, get some exercise and have a wonderful time.
Permablitzes began in 2006 in Melbourne's outer eastern suburbs as a collaboration between Permaculture designer Dan Palmer and friends and a South American community group. As of July 2009 over 70 permablitzes have been held in and around Melbourne, and others have been held in Sydney, Adelaide, Alice Springs, Darwin, France and even Uganda.
Each permablitz is part of a longer process including a pre-blitz design visit or visits by permaculture designers, prior organization of materials needed for the blitz, and after-the-blitz follow up visits to see how people are going with their new gardens.
To stay true to the concept, each permablitz must have the input of someone with a Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC), the most basic permaculture qualification.
What is permaculture? Permaculture is a design system which helps integrate people (and their needs, habits, skills, desires, money and time) and place (the physical limitations and potentials of a site such as a backyard) in ecologically harmonious systems providing a good portion of the needs of people living there (with things like water, vegetables, fruit, and eggs). Permaculture systems work more like natural systems such as forests than industrial agriculture, requiring no artificial inputs and producing no waste.
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