Whole Picture Permaculture

27/06/2025

https://www.halterhq.com/en-au

Manage your pasture, virtually fence and shift your cows, monitor their health and detect heats. All through solar-powered collars and an easy-to-use app. Trusted by over 1000+ farmers.

10/04/2025

We love growing mushrooms, we love quality clean food and we would love to share what we know with you!

There is going to be great food!

We are going to get our hands dirty

You’re going to learn a lot, take home practical skills and your own inoculated logs

If you’re free and this tickles your fancy click on the link in the bio and we will see you on the 12th

04/04/2025

- Restoring Ecosystems for Post-Traumatic Growth -
A new kind of healing begins with the land.
At Whole Picture Permaculture, we believe that healing the land is inseparable from healing people. Our new project initiative, grounded in ecosystem restoration and post-traumatic growth, is designed to offer exactly that—healing, purpose, and transformation for individuals and communities through hands-on ecological regeneration.
Imagine this:
A group of community members gathers on the land, connecting with native plants, ancient trees, and each other. They return weeks later to find the land cleared and raw—like a scar exposed. Here, they are introduced to the concept of Post-Traumatic Growth—how trauma, like disturbance in nature, can be the foundation for new strength and resilience.
- They learn how ecosystems bounce back—how lopped trees reshoot, mulch nourishes soil, and new life rises from what looked like devastation.
- They plant, build, restore—physically and emotionally—seeing regeneration unfold both around them and within.
This isn’t just land care—it’s people care.
Through ongoing participation, group reflections, and community connection, Pheonix Project becomes a living example of how ecological succession mirrors personal growth. Participants become leaders, bringing this approach to other communities and building an army of restoration—people who now serve life, healing, and food security.
The potential is enormous: healing trauma, restoring ecosystems, growing food, building climate resilience, and most importantly reconnecting people to purpose and place.
We’re not just regenerating landscapes.
We’re restoring lives.

02/04/2025

Kaurna Country! 🔥

Last month the Kaurna Firesticks team hosted State of Environment representatives from across Australia at Kauwi-marnirla (Field River) 👏🏽

The Kaurna crew ran a workshop along one of our priority burn sites and discussed the importance of incorporating Indigenous Land Management into SOE reports. Alongside Uncle Frank Wanganeen Kaurna-Narungga man and elder, the Kaurna Firesticks team provided insights on the importance of healing Country together.

🌿 Kaurna team will continue to work alongside communities and stakeholders to improve the health of Country through invasive plant clearance and cultural burns.

📸 Photos taken on Kaurna Yarta Country by Tara Ingerson

01/04/2025

Brian Wehlburg from Inside Outside Management will be joining Nicole and Tom from Misty Creek Agroforestry at a Pearces Creek Talks event on Thursday 10 April from 6-8 pm. This will be a great evening of dicussion. Grab your tickets today :)
This talk is relevant to you in terms of choosing the food you buy, how you manage your land, and how building biodiversity on farm can reduce flood and drought risk.
https://events.humanitix.com/pearces-creek-talks-biodiversity-and-syntropy?fbclid=IwY2xjawJRVqZleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHZTy2D4iPh-ac2Xkeeqz13u6HDHe4LOuzQO6OXJjmjq-vt2dt4YcsE5VYw_aem_lIQEImzq8e3WZJOJ0OcbWA

01/04/2025

Holistic Management: A Foundation for Regeneration courses coming up
- 8 days (four 2-day sessions) of the best learning experience you can get plus all your resources (Holistic Management text book and manual, charts, worksheets and stationery as well as Grazing Planning and Financial Planning software) plus teas and lunches.
All this for $2420.00. ‘A big bang for my buck.’ - Wayne Ford, Boorowa 2024
Holistic Management will give you the best grounding for a future regenerative approach to agriculture.
'Excellent course covering a large range of topics related to agriculture. Ticks all the boxes for an environmentally conscious approach to agriculture. Delivered by a great communicator.'
Andrew Michael, Tamworth 2023
https://insideoutsidemgt.com.au/whats-

01/04/2025

"Nature is 'Invasive! Species are not"
Brian Wehlburg, Holistic Management educator
Nature naturally 'invades' gaps in the environment, to increase life and resilience, often filling it with so called 'tough' species which we regard as pests or weeds. The 'Rule Of Succession' states: a species will move into an environment when conditions suit its establishment and will only leave that environment when conditions no longer suit its reproduction"