Tasmania ⁽³⁾

Just a few hours ago, I emailed off this letter to both Hobart and Burnie city councils, hoping to encourage them to select warm white LED light arrays for their street lamps. Judging from what I've seen in here in Australia and also in New Zealand towns and cities, most are receiving the LED default option: daylight white. The result is this: Cold, dazzling and excessively bright to our blue light sensitive eyes...not the right ambience for our towns and…

Some years ago now I attended a talk given by a knowledgeable old man, Graeme Stevenson, at the Wynard Community Garden in North-West Tasmania. He discussed Tasmanian worm species (of which he had a fascination) and composting, amongst other things. Having returned home to Tasmania and in sorting out some old stuff, I found these documents. Rather than them being lost to the abyss, I'm sharing them: thank you to Graeme for sharing your knowledge those years ago. A4 composting…

Another gem from an old Community Exchange Network Tasmania friend, Tony Woodward. A strong, no nonsense sometimes foreboding looking fella with oodles of live experience. He produced this straw bale gardening guide and ran in impromptu work shop after the 2015 Australasian Permaculture Convergence which was held in Penguin, Tasmania. Too good to lose, so I'm sharing. Download the full 6 page guide here. Page 1 of Tony Woodward's Straw Bale Garden quick-start guide.