Fryers Forest
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Fryers Forest is an eco-village in a forest setting in central Victoria
, Australia
. It features excellent planning, good examples of solar passive houses and sustainable management of native bushland systems. This rural eco-village consists of 11 residential titles (1 acre each) clustered within 300 acres (121.4 ha) of common native forest.
It is currently the home for 27 villagers (17 adults and 10 children). The amenities include a small community orchard, three artificial lakes stocked with fish and a community house in the making.
David Holmgren
's design and development of Fryers Forest settlement is perhaps his most significant test of his Permaculture principles. The settlement, known as the Fryer's Forest Ecovillage, is near Castlemaine
. Central features of the village design are, the integration of domestic forestry with selective thinning for fire-safety (the harvested wood provides fuel for domestic wood stoves), and the integration of the Keyline design
system of water storage and transfer with the village road network and residential home site location. The water keyline storage system is the main design instrument for the regeneration of a landscape degraded by over 50 years of gold mining.
Despite the claims that permaculture
provides sustainable solutions, there is currently no data available on the sustainability of the Fryers Forest settlement.
Victoria (Australia)
Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. It features excellent planning, good examples of solar passive houses and sustainable management of native bushland systems. This rural eco-village consists of 11 residential titles (1 acre each) clustered within 300 acres (121.4 ha) of common native forest.
It is currently the home for 27 villagers (17 adults and 10 children). The amenities include a small community orchard, three artificial lakes stocked with fish and a community house in the making.
David Holmgren
David Holmgren
David Holmgren is an ecologist, ecological design engineer and writer. He is known as one of the co-originators of the permaculture concept with Bill Mollison.- Life and work :Holmgren was born in the state of Western Australia...
's design and development of Fryers Forest settlement is perhaps his most significant test of his Permaculture principles. The settlement, known as the Fryer's Forest Ecovillage, is near Castlemaine
Castlemaine, Victoria
Castlemaine is a city in Victoria, Australia, in the Goldfields region of Victoria about 120 kilometres northwest by road from Melbourne, and about 40 kilometres from the major provincial centre of Bendigo. It is the administrative and economic centre of the Shire of Mount Alexander. The...
. Central features of the village design are, the integration of domestic forestry with selective thinning for fire-safety (the harvested wood provides fuel for domestic wood stoves), and the integration of the Keyline design
Keyline Design
Keyline design is a technique for maximizing beneficial use of water resources of a piece of land. The Keyline refers to a specific topographic feature linked to water flow...
system of water storage and transfer with the village road network and residential home site location. The water keyline storage system is the main design instrument for the regeneration of a landscape degraded by over 50 years of gold mining.
Despite the claims that permaculture
Permaculture
Permaculture is an approach to designing human settlements and agricultural systems that is modeled on the relationships found in nature. It is based on the ecology of how things interrelate rather than on the strictly biological concerns that form the foundation of modern agriculture...
provides sustainable solutions, there is currently no data available on the sustainability of the Fryers Forest settlement.