Ted Trainer's demonstration site

Photo: One of the signs at Ted's place

Tour of Ted Trainers site after the 8th Permaculture Convergence in Sydney
by A Sampson-Kelly

My favourite part of a convergence is the tours that run afterwards because i like to see ideas in action.
I missed going on a full tour because i had the honour of a tour group coming to our site.
However, i did manage to get to see Ted Trainers site.
Ted Trainer, Pigface Point – 50-acre alternative lifestyle education site, global consumption and lifestyle trends, future technologies and lifestyles for healthy people and a healthy Earth. Dr Ted Trainer is a Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Arts at the University of NSW.
Ted Trainer is not doing much food growing at this stage but there were plenty of old chicken houses including a miniature thatched roof mansion and old veggie-gardens, he is a lecturer and has a very wimsical approach to landscape. hose pump

Part of his site was designed for fun (bridges, arches, islands, caves etc)
and other parts was for purpose (dams, rammed earth shed -see photo, cob oven, home made furniture from found branches- see photo).
He uses his site as a model to show people how to create an interconnected, resourced and equiped 'village' or housing complex.
He has a lot of energy experiments (tidal energy, water wheels, methane gas, composting toilets etc)
He's like a happy nutty professor let out of the lab!

For years i had believed some one else that said that methane converter couldn't work in our cooler climate, now i know that to be untrue
simple biogas chambers off composting toilets will work in subtropics. Ted had one working off his toilet.

He also had some low-tech stuff which i really love like a simple hose coiled to pump water as you turn it.

He had some great scaled models of a villages or suburbs that converts to low energy (post carbon).

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Ted Trainer's demonstration site

Photo: One of the signs at Ted's place

Tour of Ted Trainers site after the 8th Permaculture Convergence in Sydney by A Sampson-Kelly

Tour of Ted Trainers site after the 8th Permaculture Convergence in Sydney
by A Sampson-Kelly