Grow Do It

05/12/2023

Keen to learn about permaculture? If you're wondering what to do with your block or garden, come along to our Permacutlure Design Course this April. Two whole weeks of inspiration with an amazing group of people, world-class teachers, local catering, in beautiful Denmark, Western Australia. We'll see you there.

2 week residential Permaculture Design Course taught by Grow Do It permaculture teachers Brenna Quinlan, Greta Carroll, Charlie Mgee and guests. Topics covered include: ecological design, systems thinking, local bioregional food resilience, organic gardening principles. grassroots climate action, al

18/11/2023

Happy 40th, Charlie.
Bringer of music, love, and spontaneity, you make everything more fun. You're utterly dedicated to making the world a better place and your voice and song writing are the best in the game. I see all you've achieved in your 30s...imagine what's next for this decade!

I'm go grateful you're in my life.

(I'm playing your own birthday song in this post because no one else has written a better one 😆)

🎂💚🪕

18/09/2023

Are you a part of nature?

It's funny how we see ourselves as separate from 'the natural world'. There's the human sphere, with its plastics, cement, computers, synthetic chemicals and fossil fuels. And then there's nature - a place of limited humanness, with trees, ocean, birds. A place to be protected or mourned. A place where we have no place.

Indigenous cultures all know deeply that humans are an integral part of any ecosystem. The caretakers, the collaborators, the listeners to forces much grander than ourselves. For many cultures, there is no word for 'nature', as nature is everything.

Western culture sees humans as separate. This has its roots in Christianity, which replaced a connected view with one involving a single god existing outside of the natural world, one that gave humans dominion over the world around them.

But we are connected. We all care about our planet and the other beings on it. Our bodies are flush with microbes, our food is pollinated by insects, our air is filtered by plants and the water in our bodies fell as rain seeded by trees. People are happier when their offices face green spaces. We feel a deep sadness when a river or forest or park that we've loved is vandalised or bulldozed. We speak up and keep going, even when it's hard, because we are nature defending itself.

What's your relationship like with nature?

26/05/2023

Fireside chats at our intentional community, right in the middle of the forest. Connecting to Country and to the other people who share custodianship of this beautiful land 💚

06/09/2022

What a transformation! Sometimes it's hard to see the forest for the trees when you're the one doing the work, but it's been great to take a step back and see how far we've come in 12 months.

What a transformation! You don't really notice how much you get done until you take a step back from it all. It's been a busy year, and there have been so ma...

03/09/2022

We're all about repurposing stuff here at Grow Do It. We could have spent a whole bunch of money on pallet racking for our shed storage needs, but instead we repurposed some junk. Let us know what you think.

We're all about repurposing stuff here at Grow Do It. We could have spent a whole bunch of money on pallet racking for our shed storage needs, but instead we...

30/08/2022

How much have we achieved in a year? Check out this side-by-side before and after to see. It's mostly design, earthworks, planting and drainage underground, with a few buildings and slabs started. So good to see how far we've come in buildling our in South West WA

Check out all that we've achieved in 12 short months on the block! Woo hoo! Our place is coming along - we've laid down earthworks, drainage, we've made comp...

25/08/2022

The Hempire is an intentional community in Denmark, Australia, right down the road from where our community is. We learnt how to make a wall out of h**p and lime, which we call 'h**pcrete'.

The Hempire is an intentional community in Denmark, Australia, right down the road from where our community is. We learnt how to make a wall out of h**p and ...

20/08/2022

What do permacultutarlists do with water? Slow it, spread it, sink it!

After a couple of months, our permaculture water system is starting to take shape. The idea is to slow, spread and sink water in our landscape, to stop erosi...

08/08/2022

We live in an intentional community, which means we know all of our neighbours and collaborate with them to care for the common land around us. We had a bunch of great green manure seed from Goodies Farm, so we ran over to our neighbour's place and organised an impromptu seed-spreading party on a clear block of land.

We live in an intentional community, which means we know all of our neighbours and collaborate with them to care for the common land around us. We had a bunc...

04/08/2022

How you too can turn a bunch of rubbish into a free retaining wall. But does it turn out looking like rubbish? You'll have to watch to see.

How you too can turn a bunch of rubbish into a free retaining wall. But does it turn out looking like rubbish? You'll have to watch to see.