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What is Permaculture?
Popularly seen as a ‘cool’ form of organic gardening, permaculture could be better described as a design system for resilient living and land use based on universal ethics and ecological design principles. Although the primary focus of permaculture has been the redesign of gardening, farming, animal husbandry and forestry, the same ethics and principles apply to design of buildings, tools and technology.
Applying permaculture ethics and principles in our gardens and homes inevitably leads us towards redesigning our ways of living so as to be more in tune with local surpluses and limits.
Permaculture is also a global movement of individuals, groups and networks working to create the world we want, by providing for our needs and organising our lives in harmony with nature. The movement is active in the most privileged and the most destitute communities and countries. Permaculture may be Australia’s most significant export for humanity facing a world of limits.
from David Holmgren’s book RetroSuburbia
In this video, produced by The Food Forest, in 2010, David reflects on how permaculture can be used as a template for survival and abundance
Latest Writings
Part Sixteen: Returning to the Roots
In this final chapter of the climate series, David Holmgren asks us to accept uncertainty and be open to divergent approaches.
Part Fifteen: Collapsology, Disaster Capitalism, and Other Rabbit Holes
David believes that society needs radical transformation toward frugality and resilience- and solutions must come from grassroots sources, not governments
Part Fourteen: All Electric Mania, Airwaves Pollution and Green Political Degeneration
David shares his views on rural resistance to renewables, EMRs and the shift in values of the Greens.
From our online PDC participants...
I feel so inspired to continue learning about and practicing Permaculture at home and in my community.
~ Sarah
The online format has allowed us to learn with people from all around the world...
~ Jess
Investing in this PDC has been some of the most rewarding and important time and energy I have ever spent.
~ Megan
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Featured Videos
Changing Habits for Self-Reliance and Resilience
David Holmgren — Sustainable Living Festival 2018
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About Holmgren Design
David Holmgren is the co-originator of the permaculture concept following publication of Permaculture One, co-authored with Bill Mollison in 1978. David is globally recognised as a leading ecological thinker.
Melliodora is a small specialist publisher dedicated to producing a limited range of books and other media by David Holmgren and other authors. Our titles aim to support individuals in their personal permaculture journeys.
Melliodora is a 8700m² (2¼ acre) property situated on Dja Dja Wurrung Country in Central Victoria. It is one of the best documented and well known permaculture demonstration sites in the world.
Latest News
2024 Venie Prize winner
Congratulations to Isabella G. Mead for writing the winning poem of the 2024 Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Prize, Melt Ice. Here is what judge Tim Loveday had to say about the poem: Melt Ice is a work that speaks back to our colonial inheritance with an acute and painful awareness of how our complicity as
Melbourne Documentary Film Festival Wrap Up
Many thanks to all those who attended the screening of Reading Landscape with David Holmgren at Melbourne’s Cinema Nova as part of the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. Here are some snaps of the night:
We Need to Protect Prime Farm Land on the Edge of Daylesford
This letter by David Holmgren, first appeared in The Wombat Post. I would like to add my voice to the need to protect the prime farm land on the edge of Daylesford that is currently the focus of proposed rezoning for residential development in East St. The farmland land on volcanic soils to the
From the Archive
Part Sixteen: Returning to the Roots
In this final chapter of the climate series, David Holmgren asks us to accept uncertainty and be open to divergent approaches.
Part Fifteen: Collapsology, Disaster Capitalism, and Other Rabbit Holes
David believes that society needs radical transformation toward frugality and resilience- and solutions must come from grassroots sources, not governments
Part Fourteen: All Electric Mania, Airwaves Pollution and Green Political Degeneration
David shares his views on rural resistance to renewables, EMRs and the shift in values of the Greens.
