{"id":1834,"date":"2012-01-30T15:12:22","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T04:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/?p=1834"},"modified":"2012-02-02T20:10:29","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T09:10:29","slug":"lessons-amongst-the-poppies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/lessons-amongst-the-poppies\/","title":{"rendered":"LESSONS AMONGST THE POPPIES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/holmgren-advanced-principles-melliodora-hepburn-vegetable-garden.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1834]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1832\" title=\"holmgren-advanced-principles-melliodora-hepburn-vegetable-garden\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/holmgren-advanced-principles-melliodora-hepburn-vegetable-garden.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"David Holmgren showing the group around his zone 1 vegetable garden at Melliodora, Hepburn, Victoria, Australia\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/holmgren-advanced-principles-melliodora-hepburn-garden.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1834]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1824\" title=\"holmgren-advanced-principles-melliodora-hepburn-garden\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/holmgren-advanced-principles-melliodora-hepburn-garden.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Mark from Purple Pear Organics at Melliodora, Hepburn, Victoria, Australia\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/holmgren-advanced-principles-melliodora-hepburn-poppies.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1834]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1829\" title=\"holmgren-advanced-principles-melliodora-hepburn-poppies\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/holmgren-advanced-principles-melliodora-hepburn-poppies.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"David Holmgren amongst the poppies in his vegetable garden at Melliodora, Hepburn, Victoria, Australia\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/holmgren-advanced-principles-melliodora-hepburn-matias-peas.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1834]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1826\" title=\"holmgren-advanced-principles-melliodora-hepburn-matias-peas\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/holmgren-advanced-principles-melliodora-hepburn-matias-peas.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Mathias listening to David Holmgren at Melliodora, Hepburn, Victoria, Australia\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/holmgren-advanced-principles-melliodora-hepburn-site-analysis.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1834]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1830\" title=\"holmgren-advanced-principles-melliodora-hepburn-site-analysis\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/holmgren-advanced-principles-melliodora-hepburn-site-analysis.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"David Holmgren explaining the water plan in the vegetable garden at Melliodora, Hepburn, Victoria, Australia\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/holmgren-advanced-principles-melliodora-hepburn-chook-tricycle.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1834]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1822\" title=\"holmgren-advanced-principles-melliodora-hepburn-chook-tricycle\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/holmgren-advanced-principles-melliodora-hepburn-chook-tricycle.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"The tricycle chook tractor at Melliodora, Hepburn, Victoria, Australia\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/holmgren-advanced-principles-melliodora-hepburn-netted-orchard.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1834]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1827\" title=\"holmgren-advanced-principles-melliodora-hepburn-netted-orchard\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/holmgren-advanced-principles-melliodora-hepburn-netted-orchard.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"The huge orchard trees at Melliodora, Hepburn, Victoria, Australia\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/holmgren-advanced-principles-melliodora-hepburn-orchard-tour.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1834]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1828\" title=\"holmgren-advanced-principles-melliodora-hepburn-orchard-tour\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/holmgren-advanced-principles-melliodora-hepburn-orchard-tour.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Tour around  Melliodora, Hepburn, Victoria, Australia\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/holmgren-advanced-principles-melliodora-hepburn-geese.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1834]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1825\" title=\"holmgren-advanced-principles-melliodora-hepburn-geese\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/holmgren-advanced-principles-melliodora-hepburn-geese.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Geese at Melliodora, Hepburn, Victoria, Australia\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/holmgren-advanced-principles-melliodora-hepburn-animal-fodder.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1834]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1821\" title=\"holmgren-advanced-principles-melliodora-hepburn-animal-fodder\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/holmgren-advanced-principles-melliodora-hepburn-animal-fodder.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"David Holmgren pointing out the different animal fodder trees at Melliodora, Hepburn, Victoria, Australia\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/holmgren-advanced-principles-melliodora-hepburn-discussion.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1834]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1823\" title=\"holmgren-advanced-principles-melliodora-hepburn-discussion\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/holmgren-advanced-principles-melliodora-hepburn-discussion.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Thr group listening to David Holgren explaining his site design for Melliodora, Hepburn, Victoria, Australia\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/holmgren-advanced-principles-melliodora-hepburn-treehouse-pear-tree.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1834]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1831\" title=\"holmgren-advanced-principles-melliodora-hepburn-treehouse-pear-tree\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/holmgren-advanced-principles-melliodora-hepburn-treehouse-pear-tree.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"The treehouse in the ild pear tree at Melliodora, Hepburn, Victoria, Australia\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We packed our car full of Germans (as is the custom when heading to Hepburn for some Advanced Principles David Holmgren style) and set off, but not before taking a little detour to the airport to pick up a stranded Permaculture Pilgrimager (I told you it&#8217;s not a religion!!). Fashionably late as always we filled up on soup and set up tent in a dark paddock, my head nodded as I tried to cram in the last 10 pages of David&#8217;s book, 4 to go I succumbed to sleep.<\/p>\n<p>The Advanced Principles course is well worth the trip, but as always my head was fairly bursting with knowledge at the end of the first day and I am still digesting it and working out how to apply it to life as I know it. Some people have all the luck, oh to have David Holmgren brains!<\/p>\n<p>Whilst fascinating, the photographic opportunities at the primary school hall were not so scenic so I&#8217;ll leave you with some snaps from around David&#8217;s place at Melliodora.\u00a0I won&#8217;t recommend the chook tractor tricycle as its inhabitants came to a sticky end at the paw of a Hepburn fox, but I promise if you visit Melliodora you will be dreaming of a tree house in ancient pear tree for years to come.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; We packed our car full of Germans (as is the custom when heading to Hepburn for some Advanced Principles David Holmgren style) and set off, but not before taking a little detour to the airport to pick up a stranded Permaculture Pilgrimager (I told you it&#8217;s not a religion!!). Fashionably late as always we [&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":[10,13],"tags":[236,257,258,73,81,259],"class_list":["post-1834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden","category-permaculture-design","tag-chook-tractor","tag-david-holmgren","tag-melliodora","tag-pdc","tag-permaculture-design","tag-reading-the-landscape"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4l1F7-tA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834","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=1834"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1877,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions\/1877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}