Pip Magazine Issue 25

https://pipmagazine.com.au/ Stay in touch with topics that matter Gain access to exclusive offers and giveaways Get your regular Pip fix between issues www.pipmagazine.com.au “Pip wants to do more than just inspire you to live your best life. We want to lead by example, practise what we preach and live by the ethics of earth care, people care and fair share. And although permaculture is a concept created 40-odd years ago, these ideas aren’t new. Indigenous people all around the world have been living like this for tens of thousands of years. Pip acknowledges the traditional custodians of this land; past, present and emerging. Created on the lands of the Yuin Nation, Pip respects the great wealth of knowledge and rich tradition which has cared for this country for millennia. We invite First Nations People to share…

KETAH SILVESTER Ketah has a PhD in engineering and a wealth of environmental consulting experience. In conjunction with Rotary and Food Plant Solutions, Ketah runs not-for-profit community education initiatives helping everyone successfully grow their own food. Ketah and her family have established experimental food forests in Queensland and evaluated the potential of thousands of edible plants for our changing climatic conditions. Ketah works hard to raise awareness of alternative edible plants via community gardens, educational institutions and through www.brisbaneediblegardening.org. HEATHER GALLAGHER Heather Gallagher is a freelance journalist and children’s author living on Victoria’s Bellarine Peninsula. She’s a passionate environmentalist and proud mother of two ecowarrior young adults. She writes to make a positive difference in the world; no matter how small. Her latest picture book Scaredy Cat is based on her anxious dog…

“We all need to be supporting one another at the moment” This is our 25th issue and we have been publishing Pip for nearly nine years now. During that time we have had the work of many artists featured on our cover. You may have noticed we have given our cover a revamp this issue and we hope you like it. Pip is evolving and growing up and we wanted the cover to reflect that, too. Thanks to those of you who have been with us since the beginning when our beautiful duck waddled out onto our very first cover. And for those of you who have recently joined us, welcome to the Pip family. Your support is what keeps us going. We all need to be supporting one another at the moment…

BUDDING FILMAKERS In a bid to educate the next generation of environmentally conscious smartphone consumers, the 2022 MobileMuster Student Film Competition is underway with student’s being urged to submit a one-minute film based on this year’s theme of The Science of Recycling. Open to individuals, groups or classes from the following five categories – Lower Primary (Years 1–4), Upper Primary (Years 5–6), Lower Secondary (Years 7–9), Upper Secondary (Years 10–12) and Tertiary (university, TAFE or college students) – there’s up to $30,000 worth of prizes up for grabs. Entries close 30 September. For more info, head to www.mobilemuster.com.au. APC IN SA For the first time in almost 30 years, South Australia will host the Australian Permaculture Convergence. The 2023 event will be held at Mount Barker over 21–24 April. The one-day Permaculture Festival…

NPY Women’s Council MINDFULNESS PANNIKIN This triple-fired enamel mug is a reminder from the Ngangkari traditional healers in the remote western desert of Central Australia to take a moment for yourself and relax. Handmade in Poland, the eight centimetre-diameter mug features words in language on the outside which mean ‘take a long, slow breath’ and ‘Have a cuppa, take a deep breath and relax’ is inscribed on the inside. $39.95 www.npywc.org.au Binkabu EASTERN ROSELLA EARRINGS Designed and made in Brisbane in Queensland, these handmade acrylic earrings are just one of scores of bird-themed earrings, brooches and stickers offered by Aussie company Binkabu. The acrylic is sourced and laser cut in Australia, while the posts and rings are hypoallergenic surgical stainless steel. Lightweight and unique, the Rosella earrings are seven centimetres long and 2.5 centimetres wide. $70.00 www.binkabu.com.au Saarinen Organics NIGHT…

SOUL FIRE FARMS www.soulfirefarm.org Soul Fire Farm is an 80-acre farm located on land historically stewarded by the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of the Mohican Nation, more recently known as Petersberg, New York. The Mohican people were forcibly removed in the 1800s to a reserve in Wisconsin, 1600 km away. This farm is a way to restore seed sovereignty, build relationships with the land and community, and uproot racism in the food system against the Afro-Indigenous community. Directed by Leah Penniman, author of Farming While Black, the farm organises food justice workshops for urban youth, creates home gardens for city-dwellers living under food apartheid, shares wildcrafting skills, coordinates a native seed exchange and actively engages in ecosystems restoration. It also offers a harvest delivery for households which reaches over 160,000 people each year. Soul Fire Farm…