An episode of the Reskillience podcast in which host Catie Payne interviews David Holmgren. The conversation covers his inner life and daily practice at Melliodora, land sharing, housing alternatives, and debt-avoidant living. An unusually personal and wide-ranging conversation with one of permaculture’s foundational thinkers.

A community forest project associated with David Holmgren and the Melliodora property in Hepburn Springs, Victoria. Spring Creek represents an applied example of community-scale land stewardship and woodland management informed by permaculture principles, demonstrating collaborative approaches to local forest care and community land tenure.

An eco-village project in central Victoria associated with David Holmgren. Fryers Forest is an intentional community demonstrating shared land ownership, ecological building, and cooperative living in a rural context — a practical example of the community-scale permaculture design and alternative tenure models discussed in RetroSuburbia.

Owning or occupying a home should strengthen resilience — not trap households in debt, isolation, or inflexible arrangements. This RetroSuburbia chapter explores unconventional ownership and co-habitation models as practical routes to affordability, resilience, and social richness.

A practical guide to working effectively in groups, covering facilitation, collaborative decision-making, conflict resolution, and the dynamics that determine whether groups succeed or fragment. This book offers tools applicable to households, neighbourhood groups, and larger collectives building cooperative arrangements.

Retrofitting a home for shared living isn’t just about saving money — it rebuilds the social fabric and resilience most suburbs have lost. This RetroSuburbia chapter draws on real life examples to show how thoughtful retrofits turn ordinary houses into efficient, socially rich, low-impact living hubs.

An illustrated storybook for primary school-age children tracing suburban life from the 1950s through to a near-future vision of resilient, connected neighbourhoods. This is RetroSuburbia for kids!

A climate fiction novel by Linda Woodrow, author of The Permaculture Home Garden, meticulously researched and deeply rooted in the realities of ecological collapse and community resilience.