It’s very wet in Colac   On Friday night I gave Lliam, my neighbour, a lift down from Melbourne to Fish Creek. I drop him at his front door …

What took us so long? Early this morning I was over in the park walking Jessie, our kelpie.  The remnants of a kid’s party lay scattered on the ground around …

Alex Podolinsky – Pattern and Flow   Growing up in 1930’s Germany Alex Podolinsky had a dream about a place with a giant yellow sun. Later as a refugee escaping World War II Alex Podolinsky …

If in doubt plant a tree   Today is National Tree Day, Planet Ark’s Australia-wide tree planting day. And I don’t know if you’ve noticed but trees are suddenly cool again. …

  Agroforestry’s time   It’s hard to know why some things get fished out of in-boxes while others, equally worthy of our attention, are left to drift by and wash …

  Sofi’s Seasonal Signposts   Last week in a return-of-the-light antidote to mid-winter, post-election, extinction crisis despair I wrote about the first Murnong planting at Joe’s Garden, the CERES staff solstice bonfire and …