Free Range Permaculture on Costa's Garden Odyssey

Clip from Costa's Garden Odyssey. Episode 10, Series 2. Aired on SBS, May 20th, 8pm.

For more information about Costa's great show see www.sbs.com.au/costa

For more information about the project featured in this video see a full article about Free Range Permaculture - http://permaculture.org.au/2010/05/18/costa-sbs-tv-come-to-cairns/

Since around April 2008 Free Range Permaculture have been conducting a school garden program at the Flexible Learning Center (FLC), Cairns, which operates as a Positive Learning Centre for disadvantaged youth and migrant kids ranging in age from 5 -- 17 years.

The FLC was started in a shed at the same site by a committed group of educators who recognized the importance of providing an alternative approach to working with children who, for various reasons, were struggling with the traditional classroom environment.

Read more - http://permaculture.org.au/2010/05/18/costa-sbs-tv-come-to-cairns/

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[PermacultureNews]

It is so nice isn't it! We should have a program like this in every suburb and township

[SLORTA5]

I believe that feeding others, hospitality to strangers, is an intrinsic connector that we can use to broaden our awareness of eachother. Too much about our modern life seeks to destroy these links, leaving us isolated and miserable. Church becomes defiler, family becomes insular and unsupportive, where do we find the thing we need to reach some sort of connection that sustains us, that makes us want to achieve anything of true, lasting value?

[weeearthlings]

AWESOME! 

[nakuru29]

This is so refreshing, exhilarating even, amidst all the doom and gloom everywhere.

What a beautiful, articulate person is young Germaine - I reckon she would make a great permaculture teacher!

I hope this video inspires many similar projects