Permaculture in WA?

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Wed, 08/08/2012 - 00:52 #1

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miamiheat
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Permaculture in WA?

Hi everyone

 

ive just joined your warm and cheery online community as someone interested in starting a permaculture hobby farm in WA.

Aside from a suburban backyard vege patch and having read the WA govt booklet on small rural agricultural landholdings, I have little to no experience.

I am looking at the WA wheatbelt region which is around 100m elevation and gets 600-800mm of rain a year, i believe its a loam soil type there. Im quite keen to get rainwater tanks too. Looking at current prices and my savings rate im about 6-12 months from being able to affordmy dream farm.

 

sorry for the lengthy introduction, and hoping to get to know you all! id greatly appreciate any advice you could offer!

Al, WA

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Wed, 08/08/2012 - 00:54 #2
miamiheat
Last seen: 08/15/2012 - 00:30
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Sorry, i forgot to add that im looking at around 25 acres and at this stage growing only fruit and veg.

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Fri, 08/10/2012 - 20:12 #3
rogermartyn
Last seen: 03/08/2018 - 21:05
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Hi Al,

Welcome to Farmstyle

If you have not already done so, I suggest you read our article on permaculture.

http://farmstyle.com.au/news/permaculture-%E2%80%93-what-it-does-it-have-place-small-farming

I suggest you also read some books on permaculture. Visit the online store of the permaculture research institute

http://permaculture.org.au/store/menupage.html?menu=1    for some good titles.

It would be a good idea to read more than one book on the subject. Often the same information presented a slighlty different way will help you better understand. Permaculture brings together many different concepts and there are multiple ways of achieving desired outcomes so the more information you can access, the better!

Finally, it would be a very good idea to enrol in one of the permaculture courses that are available. Most of these include hands on experience. Learning 'hands-on' from the experts is probably more important in getting to grips with permaculture than for conventional agriculture / horticulture if only because getting the correct information and seeing it carried out correctly (for permaculture) is so hard to obtain otherwise. If you have troulble finding a course in your area, get back to us and we'll tap into our network of contacts for suggestions.

Be prepared for a lot of work but also alot of satisfaction from the results.

Keep us updated!

all the best

Roger

 

 

 

 

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Sun, 08/12/2012 - 21:19 #4
miamiheat
Last seen: 08/15/2012 - 00:30
Joined: 08/08/2012 - 00:31

Many thanks for your valuable suggestions.

I will be delighted to let you know how it all goes

Al

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