{"id":1475,"date":"2011-09-24T21:32:56","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T11:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/?p=1475"},"modified":"2014-09-14T16:53:17","modified_gmt":"2014-09-14T06:53:17","slug":"one-persons-clay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/one-persons-clay\/","title":{"rendered":"ONE PERSON&#8217;S CLAY&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/flemington-permablitz-yarraville-building-site-digging.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1475]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1476\" title=\"flemington-permablitz-yarraville-building-site-digging\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/flemington-permablitz-yarraville-building-site-digging.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Laura and Tom moving clay at a building site for our Permablitz\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/flemington-permablitz-yarraville-building-site-collecting-clay.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1475]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1477\" title=\"flemington-permablitz-yarraville-building-site-collecting-clay\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/flemington-permablitz-yarraville-building-site-collecting-clay.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Dylan and Tom moving clay for our Permablitz\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/flemington-permablitz-yarraville-building-site-tom-dylan-laura-digging.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1475]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1480\" title=\"flemington-permablitz-yarraville-building-site-tom-dylan-laura-digging\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/flemington-permablitz-yarraville-building-site-tom-dylan-laura-digging.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Dylan, Laura and Tom collecting clay for our Permablitz\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/flemington-permablitz-yarraville-building-site-digging-clay.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1475]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1479\" title=\"flemington-permablitz-yarraville-building-site-digging-clay\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/flemington-permablitz-yarraville-building-site-digging-clay.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Tom and Laura collecting clay for our earth bag garden beds for our Permablitz\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/flemington-permablitz-yarraville-building-site-tom-wheelbarrow.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1475]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1483\" title=\"flemington-permablitz-yarraville-building-site-tom-wheelbarrow\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/flemington-permablitz-yarraville-building-site-tom-wheelbarrow.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Tom and the wheelbarrow at the building site\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/flemington-permablitz-yarraville-building-site-loading-car-with-clay.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1475]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1486\" title=\"flemington-permablitz-yarraville-building-site-loading-car-with-clay\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/flemington-permablitz-yarraville-building-site-loading-car-with-clay.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Dylan and Tom  packing car with clay for our Permablitz\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/flemington-permablitz-car-into-wheelbarrow.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1475]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1499\" title=\"flemington-permablitz-car-into-wheelbarrow\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/flemington-permablitz-car-into-wheelbarrow.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Unloading the clay from the car for our Permablitz, Flemington\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/flemington-permablitz-pushing-car.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1475]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1497\" title=\"flemington-permablitz-pushing-car\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/flemington-permablitz-pushing-car.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Pushing car to have a spot for the clay for our Permablitz, Flemington\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/flemington-permablitz-russian-caravan-tea.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1475]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1498\" title=\"flemington-permablitz-russian-caravan-tea\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/flemington-permablitz-russian-caravan-tea.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Cups of Russian Caravan tea\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/flemington-permablitz-clay-at-home.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1475]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1500\" title=\"flemington-permablitz-clay-at-home\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/flemington-permablitz-clay-at-home.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Pile of clay for our Permablitz, Flemington\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The countdown to our Permablitz has begun and we put our new housemates to work not five days before they moved\u00a0 in, after all manual labour is the building block of a beautiful friendship right?<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, at our house the greater part of our subsoil languishes under a thick layer of bricks, concrete and, on preliminary investigation old rusted metal including the odd bike. The foundation of a\u00a0 permaculture garden shouldn&#8217;t be built upon bought earth. We had to look elsewhere. You don&#8217;t have to look far when you are an architect.<\/p>\n<p>After filling a few wheelbarrows of some quite uninspiring clay* we left the building site with Gracie dog in the back of the ute riding high on the mound. (She didn&#8217;t find it as amusing as we did.) Then a quick refreshment of Russian Caravan tea and a brief push of the vintage car that has been renting space in our driveway to make way for the mound of clay. Just your average Saturday really.<\/p>\n<p>*Note: uninspiring earth is the best kind of earth for an earth bag garden bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The countdown to our Permablitz has begun and we put our new housemates to work not five days before they moved\u00a0 in, after all manual labour is the building block of a beautiful friendship right? Sadly, at our house the greater part of our subsoil languishes under a thick layer of bricks, concrete and, on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,55],"tags":[214,46,112,221,220,34,87,372,222],"class_list":["post-1475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden","category-recipes","tag-earth-bag-garden-bed","tag-earth-building","tag-edible-gardens","tag-flemington","tag-flemington-earthbag-garden","tag-gardening","tag-gracie-the-border-collie","tag-melbourne-permaculture-design","tag-vintage-car"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4l1F7-nN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1475"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1504,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions\/1504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}