Permaculture Hastings has launched! We’re bringing together people interested in sustainability from Port Macquarie, Wauchope, Comboyne, and Lake Cathie.
The first project is an extensive Permaculture Library that is available to you if you are in the Hastings region and join Permaculture Hastings.
Permaculture is a contraction of Permanent-Culture … in other words sustainability. Permaculture is a design system and philosophy, working with and within Nature. I firmly believe the long-term sustain of society should be the single most important issue at all levels of government and culture. Environmental problems are huge and daunting, but Permaculture provides many of the answers.
My hope for starting Permaculture Hastings is to bring together people interested in all things sustainable. Permaculture concerns itself with food, energy, water, shelter, and social structures. We will create food forests, make organic vegie gardens, implement renewable energy systems, learn and network.
I also hope to be a networking hub for any and all activities related to sustainability in the area. For example: seed exchange groups, renewable energy mobs, local organic farmers, etc. See what I’ve found so far here.
If you’d like to contact me, I’m at (02) 6585 6516. I can also be reached at permaculturehastings at gmail dot com. You may also post a comment below. I’d love to hear from you and start things rolling!
Hello Permaculture Hastings! Excited to be coming north to live in Rosewood with my family next year, especially when there may be active ‘permies’ in the area already. I have just completed my PDC near Melbourne in the Dandenong Mountains.
The post I am replying to is from early 2009 so lets hope to reinvigorate this thread and topic in the Hastings area as there has never been a more needed time than now to show our communities that there are more efficient sustainable ways to live in harmony with ourselves and our supportive natural ecosystems.
Hope to meet many of you sooner than later! Gav
By: Gavin Hughes on 08/08/2010
at 11:04 pm
Hi Gavin,
Yes, still around! Cashflow needs and projects on our property have meant I haven’t had any time to put into Permaculture Hastings as a group… the site is mostly a ‘honeypot’ to attract contact from people like you!
Rosewood is right around the corner from us – we’re in Brombin. Have you found a property?
Did you like your PDC? Amazing stuff?
By: gbell12 on 08/08/2010
at 11:27 pm