1.Internal design of owner built home. and 2. The Champagne Family, Brogo Permaculture Gardens

WELCOME TO OUR SANCTUARY

This site is an on going process that demonstrates the journey John, Sharon, Rhiannon, Callum, Imogen, Daniel and Liam Champagne have taken in the Bega Valley on the South Coast of NSW, Australia.

Brogo Permaculture Gardens is a celebration of the cultural shift we took from dependant city consumers to responsible rural producers. This is our contribution to the movement toward living lightly to meet basic human needs and then, take the lessons learnt into our community and bioregion.

ENJOY and GO WELL.

WHAT IS PERMACULTURE ?

THUMBNAIL HISTORY

It was developed and first published by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren in Tasmania in 1978.

In 1988, Bill Mollison published the ‘Designers Manual” that became the template to teach permaculture with delivery of a 72 Hour Design Certificate Course. This course he taught around the world -- and teachers came from those courses --- which taught others and so --- a global movement was born.

Early influences from Australian courses include the formation of LANDCARE, ETHICAL INVESTMENTS, SEEDSAVERS, CRYSTAL WATERS ECO-VILLAGE as well as having close ties with both AGROFORESTRY and BIOREGIONAL organizations.

Today, Permaculture has been taught to hundreds of thousands of people in over 60 countries with the ‘Designers Manual’ translated into 5 languages. Many permaculturalists, after meeting their own needs, now work in areas such as URBAN HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS, COMMUNITY GARDENS, FARMERS MARKETS, LETS SYSTEMS and COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE as well as professional land designers.

DEFINITION

The word was coined out of two – PERMANANCE and AGRICULTURE

A current definition is –“ Consciously designed landscapes which mimic the patterns and relationships found in nature, while yielding an abundance of food, fibre and energy for provision of local needs.”

People, their buildings and the ways they organise themselves are central to permaculture. The vision of permanent (sustainable) agriculture has evolved to one of permanent (sustainable) culture.

It belongs in the academic area of Systemic Thinking and is information intensive that draws the information from, Indigenous Cultures, Scientific Facts, Pioneering Skills but most of all, from the lessons of Nature itself.

Permaculture is as much to do with how we DESIGN organic food gardens as it is with how we DESIGN governance of our bioregions.

WHY DO WE NEED PERMACULTURE?

In 1972 a report titled "Limits to Growth" compiled by a  meeting of industrialised nations known as the Club of Rome, heralded the first oil crisis and determined that given current global energy requirements and population increases, our reliance on fossil fuels can not last long.

The term PEAK OIL is now an understanding that we have reached half of our oil reserves and are currently on a curve of energy descent.

Permaculture was therefore a positive response from Mollison and Holmgren on how, through thoughtful design, we can safely manage an existence without a reliance on fossil fuels.
           

contact Brogo Permaculture Gardens 

brogopg(at)bigpond.net.au

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