Reawaken your dormant farming desires and throw yourself into a life on the land. An animated chat with rural woman of the year Katie Finlay about staunching the loss of small farms in Australia and supporting emerging growers to step up – even and especially if they don’t own land. (What even is land ownership?)

Katie and Hugh Finlay are black belt orchardists whose online program is just brilliant for anyone who wants to obtain a yield from fruit trees (with an organic and holistic tilt, of course).

A Google Maps link to the Melliodora property in Hepburn Springs, Victoria — the home and demonstration permaculture site of David Holmgren and Su Dennett. Melliodora has been developed since 1985 and is one of Australia’s most visited permaculture properties, serving as the practical laboratory for much of Holmgren’s published work.

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.

Choosing the right property isn’t about market trends — it’s about securing a site that can actually sustain you in an uncertain future. This RetroSuburbia chapter by David Holmgren provides a framework for evaluating properties on solar access, water, soil, neighbourhood, and proximity to services.

A historical document recording the first decade of Melliodora’s development from 1985 to 1995.
This document is only available in the Melliodora: A case study in cool climate permaculture eBook

A richly detailed eBook documenting the development of David Holmgren and Su Dennett’s Melliodora property in Hepburn Springs, Victoria, across its first twenty years. Combines the original 1985–1995 book text with high-resolution photography and updated images through to 2005. One of Australia’s most visited permaculture demonstration sites.