Category: Permablitz

Events, News, Permablitz

Introducing Backyard Bounty

Barry Gibson

What is it?
Backyard Bounty is a year-long project aimed at building community resilience through local food production and sharing.

When will it run?
The project will run from June 2026 – June 2027 allowing us to run events focussing on all seasons

How are we going to achieve this?
There will three main areas to encourage local food production in local backyards:

  • Run a series of low-cost workshops in specialist skill areas that are important to successful home and local food production (e.g. introduction to vegetable gardening, setting up a home orchard, growing food on small plots, grafting, pruning, compost making, keeping chickens)
  • Coordinating series of food garden open days by local experts to show the diversity of ideas for food production in a backyard context, these would focus on growing healthy nutrient dense food
  • Run a series of Permablitzes to facilitate community working bees to 'make over' home gardens for maximum food production based on permaculture design principles

Register here to be notified of upcoming events.

Permablitz

Haddon Community Garden Blitz

Barry Gibson

Did you see us in the local rag in Haddon?

We had a great blitz out at Haddon in May, this is one of 2 community Blitzes held during the month. We had a great group of participants including from the Haddon community, HCLC staff and children from the Haddon Primary School, as well as a couple of BPG facilitators.

We managed to do a number of jobs including installing and filling 8 Wicking beds, as well as a multispecies windbreak.

To read the article in full go to:

The Woady Yaloak Herald – Winter 2025 - The Haddon CLC

Events, Permablitz

Invermay Permablitz

Barry Gibson

What an amazing Blitz!!

Thanks to the attendees for such a great day. Everyone absolutely smashed it and we tore through the ambitious to do list in between drizzle, great chats, snacks and goat visits.

Also a big thank you to Bill Stubbs for sharing his plant and landscaping knowledge and the seedlings used on the day.

The BPG committee are looking for hosts, so if you could do with a few extra hands in your garden, send an email or fill in the expression of interest form on the website:

Host a Permablitz

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Navigators Permablitz November 2022

Barry Gibson

Please join us on Sunday 27 November for a day of connection with other like-minded people. We have a great range of tasks on offer and new skills to learn such as sheet mulching, natural fencing, chicken tractor creation, wicking bed creation and plant guilds. This is an opportunity to be involved at the beginning, in what it very much a work in progress.

Our hosts Barry and Melissa and their three children Charlotte, Emily and Freddy live on a small farm that has a range of animals and plants for both produce and lifestyle purposes including bees, sheep, horses and chickens. They are slowly restoring an old orchard and developing an overgrown berry run into a food garden. They are attempting to introduce permaculture and regenerative farming techniques in order to leave their small farm and surrounding community in a better place socially and ecologically than it was when they moved there.

Children are welcome to participate and interact with the farm animals. However please be aware that there are two large dams and other general farm hazards on the property, and children will need to be supervised across the day.

Lunch and refreshments will be provided by the hosts, so registration is essential for catering purposes. Please register a FREE ticket for each attendee (including children) and advise any dietary requirements.

Tickets are available at:
https://events.humanitix.com/ballarat-community-permablitz

What to bring:

gardening gloves
sun gear (hat, sunscreen, long sleeved shirt etc)
covered shoes
water bottle

Want to know more about Permablitz?

Permablitz is about people helping people, learning skills and seeing permaculture designs in action.  Don't know what a Permablitz is and if it is for you? Watch this video from Gardening Australia with the awesome Hannah running one in Tasmania.