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| The doggy digging area of Asaba's garden: Illustration by Cecilia Macaulay |
This Saturday My Go-getter permaculture mates and I will have 'Japan's first Permabitz' at Asaba Art Square, the garden I drew up and everyone created, two years ago.
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| Creating Asaba's garden, a proto-permabliz event, 2010 |
Just as the Foxes and bunnies are now putting on their winter coats, now its time to pack up the leftovers of summer. Its time to check the compost systems, maybe do a harvest. Time to plant the winter greens that go super-sweet in the cold.
Most of all, time to plan what to plant for a Springtime Spectacular.
Lets make it an official Permablitz, and do it by the book.
It's a cool name, and a new Aussie tradition worth going global.
I want to come back in the spring for a heap of Permablitzes, in all my favourite people's houses an back lanes.
What happens on a Permablitz?
Designers make a plan, weeks before.
Revellers come on the day.
Maybe 40 of us, in our most festive old clothes, ready for a day of using our bodies, meeting creative people, and share whatever spare we have: Spare seedlings, spare energy, spare knowledge.
We feast, on the lovley dishes everyone brings to share.
We transform the whole place, in a day.
Then dance the PermaSalsa to celebrate.
Some people fall in love.
With the new garden, of course.
Creating Paradise Takes a Team
Asaba did it!
How great is this:
Photo Gallery from Asaba's 2010 Garden creation
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| We collected fertile 'fuyodo from the mountains. A truck brought the rest |
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| Amazing Nakano-san gave us cuttings from her Tamagawa Paradise |
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| Members of my workshop series got dirty |
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| Concrete, filming, digging, wall-making |
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| We marveled at how gardening brings the most unlikely people together |
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| Timber sleepers for permaculture beauty |
The whole garden was pretty much gathered from the wild.
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| Asaba Art Square: Art School, Cafe, WWOOF host, Art festival, couryard garden, and midnight bar |
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| El-cheepo flow form: buckets catch and store rooftop rainwater The air conditioner is hidden in the Table-top box |
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| Asaba's students work light up her bridge. Often, the paint is just drying. |
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| Bitter gourds to climb over and hide the metal bridge |
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| 3D garden to clamber and find surprises in |
What can you do?
Help us translate the Permaculture official website
Find a well-connected friend, who would use and love her garden.
Propose a permablitz!
People bring food, seedlings, music
Afterwards, we dance the PermaSalasa.
I will come and join in. xx
How to get to Asaba's
Call Cecilia : 080 6689 6086
Walk 8 minutes from Kanazawa Bunko Station.
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4 comments:
i love the charming pictures you draw :)
p.s. that fuyodo looks like gardener's gold
Thank-you Sarah!
I want to run garden-drawing classes one day: if you can draw it, people want to make it.
Yes the fuyudo was delicious.
I want to go to Asaba ! :) :)
Damian, you should go. Mrs Asaba has a WWOOF volunteer program, her resident wwoofers are mostly high-love, high-performance people, you would have a great time.
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