Free PDF download: Towards Zero Waste for Launceston

We have created this PDF as a useful resource for schools and community, covering methods to reduce waste and creating useful resources from waste. Launch Event! If you are in Launceston, and interested in up cycling, reducing waste...

PDC 2021 – Launceston

Mats of Taveuni

World Fair Trade Certified Handicrafts from the Garden Island, Fiji. Local village social enterprise....

DIY Upcycled Wicking Garden Beds

Wicking beds make gardening in summer more productive and time and water efficient all year around. We’ve decided to create a series of videos walking you thought how to make wicking beds in a few ways. Parts list Upcycled apple crate...

Worm-a-bago – A Wormfarm on wheels

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food” – Hippocrates. With this thought in mind, how can we grow, healthy, nutrient dense food that will sustain our bodies with wholesome goodness? In this video we...

Hannah Cooper

Hannah Cooper completed her Permaculture Design Certificate in 2013 with Milkwood Permaculture, studying under Hannah Moloney in Hobart, further extending her studies into Edible Forest Gardening (Dave Jacke 2010, Milkwood 2012) and...

Suzan Muir

Eating warm peaches from the tree at the age of three, milking cows and feeding chickens and pigs with her Grandmother, sparked Suzan Muir’s passion for the fascinating complexity of self generated food and energy systems. Weaving...

Permaculture Principles

Permaculture is a creative design process based on whole-systems thinking informed by ethics and design principles that feature on this site. This approach guides us to mimic the patterns and relationships we can find in nature and can...

Eco Warriors

Action, Save, Take Hope Ecobricks….in the problem lies the solution….the world is feeling the effects of decades of single-use plastics. A group of dynamic Eco-warriors at West Launceston Primary School with the help of friends have...

Kathryn Kahl

I am a Tassie girl who grew up on the north west, playing in the bush, camping and riding horses. I studied Visual Art and had a career in teaching for many years before becoming a home maker. Since becoming a mother I have really...

Rosemary Morrow

Rosemary Morrow is known and revered worldwide for her pragmatic and effective approach to creating permaculture systems across an incredibly broad range of environments. Rosemary has successfully implemented community-scale...

Grace Walsh

I grew up in a housing estate in Dublin, Ireland and had an early interest in politics and social justice. In my 20s I traveled to the Palestinian Territories to learn more about the political situation on the ground. I found myself...

Handmade in Tasmania

Bundles of bags ready to go to Tasmanian Artisan Shop in George St. So pleased to be distributing from this beautiful shop that is overflowing with the goodness of local handmade items. Buy local this Christmas to support our community...

Plastic Free July

Plastic Free July has been such a hoot this year. Beeswax wrap making is all the go as an alternative to cling wrap and plastic bags. We nailed it over a kitchen wood stove in Burotu village on Taveuni Island last week, and today at...

Our Global Village Celebration

“Our Global Village Celebration” is happening again this year as event of the Tamar Peace Festival. A gathering of makers, producers, performers and foodies at the Northern Suburbs Community Centre Saturday August 17....

Climate Leaders Conference

Fabulous day with this awesome bunch of Earth Carers at the Climate Leaders Conference at WLPS today. Wanted to say “Thanks team”…inspirational!...

Bog for Frogs

The Grand Opening of the Bog for Frogs in the West Launceston Primary School Community Garden. Thanks Costa and the Bog Bonk Acapella ❤ Eleven species of frog occur throughout Tasmania, three of which are restricted to the State. While...

Global Climate Strike Launceston

Global Climate Strike Launceston. 1000+ people speaking out for change May all the voices be heard....

The Shed @ Rocherlea

*Awesome* day at ‘The Shed, Rocherlea, with this great bunch of East Tamar students and families. We planted fruit trees, were propagating spring veggies and potting up some funky heirloom tomatoes and capsicum for the home...