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Melliodora
(Hepburn Permaculture Gardens)

Tours

"Melliodora" (Hepburn Permaculture Gardens), is situated on the edge of Hepburn Springs, the spa centre in Central Victoria. It is one of the best documented and well known permaculture demonstration sites in Australia. The passive solar house, mixed food gardens, orchards, dams and livestock, and creek revegetation show how permaculture design can help to restore and improve land, provide for residents needs and enjoyment in a cool inland climate. Following purchase in 1985, the one hectare property has been developed from a blackberry covered wasteland into a model of small scale intensive permaculture, relevant to both large town blocks and small rural allotments.

featured on Gardening Australia on ABC television in 1998
one of 12 case studies in sustainable agriculture featured Museum of Victoria's Future Harvest Exhibition
the book Hepburn Permaculture Gardens:10 years of Sustainable Living provides the complete design and story.

ABC Gardening Australia film crew in the garden, January 1997

GUIDED TOURS
During the 1990's thousands of people have visited Melliodora on tours lead by David Holmgren (co-originator of the permaculture concept).With the property now well established and maturing, take an excellent opportunity with a guided tour to see the principles of permaculture applied, and to learn from the wealth of practical experience of the designer owners. Due to demands for more information, the tour format has been updated to a choice of three tours.

Mudbrick Passive Solar House
Gardens tour of one hectare property
Spring Creek - understanding weedscapes and wild nature values, community revegetation

For more information about current tour dates and costs see the What's On Where page.

For details about each tour see:

House Tour
Gardens Tour
Spring Creek Tour

Melliodora is a private home so please respect our privacy. Group or private visits can be arranged by appointment.

Please note:

1. Children are welcome. Parents must take responsibility for them and their actions.
2. Visitors are on the property at their own risk.
3. Please park in driveway (on right hand side) to avoid inconvenience to neighbours

FOR BOOKINGS Contact Su Phone: 53483636 or Email:info@holmgren.com.au

Melliodora from the air in early summer 1993
photo by Bruce Hedge

See another larger airphoto of Melliodora (450k)
See Photo Gallery of Melliodora

"Melliodora" is named after the mature Yellow Box (Eucalyptus mellidora) which grow around the fringe of our property. E. melliodora is famous for the honey made from its nectar and is indigenous to the extensive slopes of the Murray Darling Basin from western Victoria to southern Queensland. At Hepburn Springs it is at the cool summer extreme of its range and grows as a tall timber tree.

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		"Melliodora" (Hepburn Permaculture Gardens), is situated on the edge of Hepburn Springs, the spa centre in Central Victoria. It is one of the best documented and well known permaculture demonstration sites in Australia. The passive solar house, mixed food gardens, orchards, dams and livestock, and creek revegetation show how permaculture design can help to restore and improve land, provide for residents needs and enjoyment in a cool inland climate. Following purchase in 1985, the one hectare property has been developed from a blackberry covered wasteland into a model of small scale intensive permaculture, relevant to both large town blocks and small rural allotments.
	featured on Gardening Australia on ABC television in 1998 one of 12 case studies in sustainable agriculture featured Museum of Victoria's Future Harvest Exhibition the book Hepburn Permaculture Gardens:10 years of Sustainable Living provides the complete design and story.




					ABC Gardening Australia film crew in the garden, January 1997
			GUIDED TOURS During the 1990's thousands of people have visited Melliodora on tours lead by David Holmgren (co-originator of the permaculture concept).With the property now well established and maturing, take an excellent opportunity with a guided tour to see the principles of permaculture applied, and to learn from the wealth of practical experience of the designer owners. Due to demands for more information, the tour format has been updated to a choice of three tours. Mudbrick Passive Solar House Gardens tour of one hectare property Spring Creek - understanding weedscapes and wild nature values, community revegetation For more information about current tour dates and costs see the What's On Where page. For details about each tour see: House Tour Gardens Tour Spring Creek Tour Melliodora is a private home so please respect our privacy. Group or private visits can be arranged by appointment. Please note: 1. Children are welcome. Parents must take responsibility for them and their actions. 2. Visitors are on the property at their own risk. 3. Please park in driveway (on right hand side) to avoid inconvenience to neighbours FOR BOOKINGS Contact Su Phone: 53483636 or Email:info@holmgren.com.au




		Melliodora from the air in early summer 1993 photo by Bruce Hedge
	See another larger airphoto of Melliodora (450k) See Photo Gallery of Melliodora
"Melliodora" is named after the mature Yellow Box (Eucalyptus mellidora) which grow around the fringe of our property. E. melliodora is famous for the honey made from its nectar and is indigenous to the extensive slopes of the Murray Darling Basin from western Victoria to southern Queensland. At Hepburn Springs it is at the cool summer extreme of its range and grows as a tall timber tree.