Gidday, This is the first post on my new blog. I'm writing about my recent (temporary or indefinite) career change to farming. I'm writing this post from the 'Permaculture Research Institute' in North New South Wales. I am doing volunteer farming at the moment, before my Permaculture Design Course starts in 2 weeks, with the idea of gaining some hands on experience and understanding of a permaculture system. I am currently thoroughly enjoying myself; the work, the place, the lifestyle and the food, and although the work I'm doing at the moment is simple, I'm learning a lot. The work days are fairly long (7am-4pm), but there are plenty of breaks throughout the day and we have weekends off (I've just got back from a small nearby town called Nimbin; Australia's answer to Amsterdam, minus the red light district). In my next post I will write about my current understanding of this field. (My intention is to keep these posts shorter and more frequent than my previous blog, as blogger doesn't seem to permit spaces between paragraphs any more).