A while ago we we listed all the benefits of permablitzing, and stacked up together it really was a very impressively long list. And yet, there's one thing we neglected to mention which might be the most important reason of all. That is, if you happen to have any sort of inclination towards getting into heaven, it's probably not going to do your chances any harm at all. That's the irrefutable results of our numerical analysis of the Catholic Church's index of patron saints.
There are no less than 21 patron saints of gardeners and farmers implying God puts a lot of stock in their activities. Let's see how that stacks up against some other prominent occupations...
Over at MooIMadeIt.com Angela has been reporting on a host of blitzes over the last few months. Here's a sample from Moonee Ponds... Check out the blog for more!
The broad bean (aka fava bean) has to be one of the hardest working plants on the planet. Right now we're pulling kilos and kilos of protein packed deliciousness out of the garden, while beneath the earth this plant captures the elusive nitrogen into the soil with its specialised root nodules, helping feed other crops. The broad bean grows steadily through the coldest Winter months and produces in Spring, which for many climates is the season of famine (more so than Winter). The story of the fava bean weaves back millenia through many cultures, and yet no civilisation has ever, so far as we know, worshipped a broad bean god -- which seams like a terrible oversight given the bean's awe inspiring properties. Therefore we give you a god of our own creation: Lord Fava, the best and only broad bean god to have ever existed. He is great and powerful. Love and fear him. If you have a rare pre-existing blood condition, he might smite you (see below). But for the rest of us he brings fertility and protein. His hands are surrounded by powerful balls of nitrogen fixing nodules. They are filled with magical microbes, his familiars. I say 'he' but 'he', like most plants, is hermaphroditic. No body knows what's underneath that loin cloth.
Join us in prayer, and the ritual sacrifice of a baby goat, as we look into the history, uses of, and gardening tips for the mighty Lord Fava and the Broad Beans...
Welcome to Permablitz Melbourne - this site has been set up to help people get together and have fun learning about, designing and implementing suburban permaculture systems. Our focus is edible gardens, and our ultimate aim is to make the suburbs edible enough such that should food become unaffordable, we don’t even notice. See above for the next permablitz and feel free to submit your own onto the calendar. Check out photos of blitzes 1-6 here, and photos of more recent blitzes in our gallery.
Costa Georgiadis talks up permablitz in this fantastic interview with Sydney's 2SER show 
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