Welcome to Friends of the Earth’s Sydney Permablitz site - this site has been set up to help people get together and have fun learning about, designing and implementing suburban permaculture systems.  Our focus is edible gardens, and our ultimate aim is to make the suburbs edible enough such that should food become unaffordable, we don’t even notice.

What is a permablitz? It’s an informal gathering involving a day on which a group of at least two people come together to achieve the following:

• create or add to edible gardens where someone lives

• share skills related to permaculture and sustainable living

• build community networks

• have fun!

Each permablitz is part of a longer process including a pre-blitz design visit or visits, prior organisation of materials needed for the blitz, and after the blitz follow up visits to see how people are going with their new gardens.  This means that permablitzes stay true to permaculture design, which is always an extended process in which all action is informed by prior observation and reflection.

Originally established in Melbourne, Sydney’s first permablitz took place in Nov 2007 with plans to continue in many more backyards across the city. For more background on Permablitz see Asha Bee's article originally published on Energy Bulletin and Katherine Kizilos' article for Melbourne's The Age newspaper . To learn more about permaculture see permaculture as defined in wikipedia.

Be sure to check out the Sydney Permablitz facebook site for updates and contact details.