The summer hiatus is over. The permablitz season is back! Bringing with it some gastronomic, horticultural truth. Choose it...
What does truth taste like? A bitter pill? On the contrary. You see we've been tricked. Scammed. By that thing in the supermarket that looks like a tomato but doesn't taste like one. By the shiny analogue of an apple, making up for what it lacks in flavour and nutrition by a hidden load of pesticides.
I can tell you this, brothers and sisters, the apple in the Garden of Eden was no insipid, floury, waxed Jonathan. But truth doesn't even come in the form of one apple alone. I want you to picture instead 60, 70 different varieties of organically grown, heritage apples, available for you to taste on the one day!
This is exactly what you get at the Heritage Fruit Society's Pettys Orchard Apple Tasting Open Day on March 28. After going last year, Kati writes "I didn't know apples could have so many different colours, flavours, sizes, textures etc." It's like we're all living "in a world with no choices and no truth. So if you wanna TASTE SOME TRUTH ... probs you need to come to this."
We're blitzing up the Open Day this year, and there are more blitzes coming too. The blitz at Petty's is already booked out but you can still come along to the open day to enjoy the fun. Book in to these others fast...
In this newsletter we've also hard times permaculture bringing relief to disaster zones and prisons, we've got urban honey, and we've got the inimitable Costa on permablitzing, and we'll teach you new ways to pee.
Ruby from Sydney radio 2SER's A Question of Balance recently interviewed TV's Costa Georgiadis about permablitz. Costa is so enthusiastic and efficient with his language. Makes you see why he's the star. A few days ago she published a follow up interview with Adam Grubb from Permablitz Melbourne. [I must sound like I'm on Mogadon by comparison.]
Do you want to try a playgroup with a difference? Want to learn about sustainability while you do a bit of organic gardening with a group of like-minded Mums?
Try the Permaculture Out West playgroup, starting Feb 1st!
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.
"At the heart of any town or city is the community and the more people help and interact with each other, the stronger the community. This [permablitz] project brings people together so they can help one another, and learn from each other in a relaxed garden setting. In a time when food costs are on the rise and our waistlines are expanding, the edible gardens project couldn't be timelier."
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