by David Holmgren | Sep 21, 2019 | RetroSuburbia Roadshow
Our plans for heading for home required us going back to the coast at Esperance before the journey north to Norseman and out across the Nullarbor. We had reluctantly decided that we couldn’t visit the various farmers from further west and south we had met in Gnarrojin...
by David Holmgren | Sep 20, 2019 | RetroSuburbia Roadshow
The turn off the Albany highway showed us more wheat and grazing paddocks and less canola, reflecting the declining rainfall as you move northeast. But Gnarrojin (Narrogin) is on some of the best soil in the wheatbelt and like York has York Gum (Eucalyptus loxophleba)...
by David Holmgren | Sep 4, 2019 | RetroSuburbia Roadshow
An evening chatting after a shared meal, a slow pack up next day, connecting with some of the kids in the community including one home-educated, and a couple of radio interviews for David saw us back in Denmark for shopping, some permaculture celebrity recognition and...
by David Holmgren | Sep 4, 2019 | RetroSuburbia Roadshow
The drive to Albany took us through the whole mosaic of South West landscapes including wetlands brimming with water on backroads David had never travelled on in his youth. The journey was marred by a collision with a kangaroo. David walked back to dispatch the poor...
by David Holmgren | Sep 3, 2019 | RetroSuburbia Roadshow
Wednesday was wet all day in Margaret River, with water on the paddocks and streams gushing as one might expect in August. After breakfast with Peter and Jan Lane (and a review of Peter’s latest presentation on WA geology and its relationship to critical conservation...