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On the move
Hello dear AaF blog readers, It's been a while. We've been working with friends to produce a new website to host our stories and present our videos. We'll be blogging and vlogging from over there in...
View ArticlePreparing for the next fire season
As you may know we've been vlogging on our YouTube channel since COVID first pioneered Australia, and this winter we've been especially focussed on preparing for the next great challenge –this summer's...
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Radicalising the home economy for greater adaptation and well-being
Hello Dear Reader,We've been incredibly busy with harvest season this year. It's the first time in 12 years without volunteers helping to prepare and store food, fuel and medicine for the winter,...
View ArticleReplacing growth with belonging economies
Last year we were invited to contribute a chapter to the forthcoming book, Food for Degrowth: Perspectives and Practices, to be published by Routledge later this year. Although, let's not count on...
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Collective preparedness
Back in 2018 Artist as Family was asked to be involved in an art event called Pandemic at Arts House in North Melbourne. The exhibition, coordinated by artists Lizzy Sampson & Asha Bee Abraham, was...
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All things fall and are built again: a neopeasant response
Fire. One of the most significant phenomenons of this world. Fire makes us human, transports us into technological animals, transforms ecologies, and devastates life when we do not accept its...
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Tending a climate for change – reclaiming, divesting, repairing, resowing,...
Currently there are less than 1% of us living carbon-positive lifeways in the rich countries. While taking to the streets is of course important, it is the day-to-day relationships of the home and...
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Towards post-colonial bushfire mitigation practices (using goats and hand...
The Austrian painter Eugene von Guerard painted this in 1864. An early colonial image of the place our privilege calls home.There was a rapid appearance of European peasant goat grazing, browsing and...
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Teaching neopeasant lifeways (a love antidote to the...
OK, let's take the oak tree, for example. Air conditioner, alkalising leaf compost, fine timber, Green Man cosmology, edible tree crop, and a now sacred feral tree of our homeplace in southern Djaara...
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White people dreaming (and performing other forms of culture and economy)
We saw out the year with greenkin friends, once again walking and pedalling the main drag of our home town for the 2018 Daylesford New Year's Eve Parade. (photo by David Jablonka)It was quite a...
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Fire in our hearts; fire in our bellies
Fire! It's wild, feared, harnessed and praised. Our first tool. Like the Greek story of Prometheus stealing fire to give to mortals, Djaara people – on whose land we have made home – also have their...
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This is permacultural neopeasantry
It has been a very social time of late, guests from many places visiting with much sharing, learning and sleeves-rolled-up labouring. A lovely French couple, Ariane and Thomas, stopped in. They are...
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New podcast! House + garden tours! New PLC dates! And a very special...
Well, it's been three weeks since our sweet divorce from social media and we've been breathing more deeply by not serving the algorithm. We are exceedingly more productive, co-organising a significant...
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Home
We are home.It is male. It is female.Home is we.Home is a place of many makings,and scratchings,and gifts.We are young ones,learning to make,an array,of goodly things.We are older ones,who brew fire...
View ArticleCreatures of place
In March of this year, Jordan and Antoinette from Happen Films came and spent a few days with us to talk ideas, share food and labours, and film us going about our daily makings. The result is this...
View ArticleTelling our story
This week saw Patrick telling two versions of our story. At Melbourne Free University Patrick speaks about why we use the term neopeasant, and how this term found us and what it means in the context of...
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Permaculture Living Course, Applied School of Neopeasantry
From the packaging-free food we consume,including walked-for mushrooms,to the manure from this food we make,and the house and garden tours we take,to the things we grow and store,inside the cellar...
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Artist as extended family: our year with Jeremy Yau
As you might already know, Jeremy lived with us for the past year, learning and teaching, loving and sharing. This was his house, which we built with him and dubbed The Yause. And this is his story...
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Childhood wonderland
This year we've been running a weekly life-led bush school called Make and Play. We've carved spoons, made multi-pronged fishing spears, learned to cook on a camp fire, built cubbies, observed many...
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A gut healing book warming (and the importance of home)
There are so many entities to thank when a book comes into being. Convention dictates we thank humans only, which makes sense because a book is a fairly human-orientated thing. Yet a book has many...
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