We Are Outlandish

02/12/2025

The relationships between fungi, soil health, plant proformance and animal and people's health are well known topics in regenerative farming but what do we know that's specific for gardens and designed landscapes?

The 2.5 day Nutrition Gardening Workshop in Moss Vale has been designed to discuss and test ideas for garden situations. It will be led by Dr Alison Pouliot and Graeme Sait and is only possible through the generosity and interest of a generous supporter with a commendable interest.

The workshop is limited to 20 people and registration is by Expression of Interest to curate a good cross section of the engaged community.

Register at:
www.outlandishventures.au/participate/nutritiongardening

02/12/2025

The links between fungi, plant nutrition and plant, animal and people's health is of great interest for regenerative farming practices but what do we know that's specific to gardens and designed landscapes? This two and a half day Nutrition Gardening Workshop is designed specifically for gardeners and planting curators where two world acclaimed experts will share their knowledge of fungi and plant health.

The workshop is limted to 20 people and registration is by Expression of Interest to curate a cross-section of participants from the gardening, science, horticulture, landscape design, arboriculture, ecological communities and others.

Register at:
outlandishventures.au/participate/nutritiongardening

19/09/2025

One of those (superb) days . The hills sang at the South Coast NSW

21/07/2025

Bookings for the Outlandish tour of Californian gardens, scheduled for May 2026 open tomorrow- 22 July. See website for details www.outlandishventures.com. Photo credit: the wonderful Claire Takacs. Image: Bernard Trainer, Carmel by the Sea, California

23/03/2025

21/03/2025

A few highlights from Day 1 of the Australian Landscape Conference 2025! ✨🌿📸

06/03/2025

Meet the speaker 📣 Jefa Greenaway - Architect

🔹 Jefa Greenaway Wailwan | Kamilaroi
Jefa is a founding Director of Greenaway Architects (est. 1998), an Adjunct Industry Fellow at Swinburne University, an Honorary Fellow of Design at Deakin University and an Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) National Cultural Ambassador.

He’s championed Indigenous led design thinking for 3 decades as a registered architect across three States, as founding Director of Indigenous Architecture + Design Australia (IADA), as a member of the AIA Cultural Reference Panel, and as co-author of the award winning International Indigenous Design Charter, with a particular interest in design equity and Country-centred design.
His current projects include the $11B North East Link Project, winner of the 2022 WAFX Future Infrastructure award, the UTS National First Nations College, winner of the 2024 WAFX Cultural Identity award and the recently completed Indigenous Learning Circles project at Swinburne University. He was a 2020 Design Institute of Australia’s (DIA) ‘Hall of Fame’ inductee, signifying an outstanding contribution to Australian design and was named in the Qantas 100 Inspiring Australians, celebrating their centenary and was included within the INDE.Awards 2023 ‘The Luminary’ (special prize) recognising an individual whose entire portfolio represents a lifetime of design finesse and distinction.

Register at alc25.com
Registrations close 12 March. 2025

05/03/2025

Meet the speaker 📣 Adam Greenspan -

🔹Adam Greenspan, FASLA, is a landscape architect and Design Director at PWP Landscape Architecture in Berkeley, California. His presentation for the ALC is titled: 'Living Landscape - Integrating Nature in Urban Technology' ..
Adam Greenspan (USA).

With degrees in sociology, installation art and a background in horticulture, Adam’s work aims to bring the wonder of life and the power of nature into people’s everyday experience through design. Adam grew up in the Hollywood Hills, spending his formative years hiking and playing in the wild lands of the Santa Monica Mountains. These experiences shaped his understanding of and interest in landscape and the interactions between people, plants, and animals. The drama of natural landscapes and the potential for shared insight through engagement with art have been key drivers in his practice.
At PWP, Adam has worked to integrate living systems holistically, and has focused on increasing the level of ecological service and the potential for engaged learning in all projects. Working with a wide array of clients, Adam and the team at PWP aim to create intimacy between people and the natural world within dramatic and memorable spaces in a wide variety of settings including Barangaroo Reserve, Jewel Changi Airport, Salesforce Transit Center Park, San Francisco, Glenstone Museum, Potomac, MD, and Marina Bay Sands Integrated Resort, Singapore.

Register - link in bio

04/03/2025

Meet the speaker 📣 Steve Martino - Landscape Architect. FALA

🔹 Steve Martino is a landscape architect based in Tucson, Arizona, who says that his career path was ‘a direct result of a walk in the desert’. He was puzzled why the manmade landscape of the city was so uninteresting and uninspiring compared with the natural desert landscape. So he decided to try and design gardens which incorporated native desert plants — the start of a 40-year career which has garnered international plaudits for its fusion of elegant modernism with the drama of succulents and other desert subjects. Martino was working ‘naturalistically’ with wild plants — considered almost as weeds — many years before it became fashionable in the mainstream, and his early contribution and example is internationally appreciated and understood.
In his talk, entitled ‘Modern materials & attitudes for old school gardens’, Steve will describe how he uses architectural elements to structure space and control views. He will discuss how gardens should stand on their own as spaces without plants, and how he came to realize that plants are incidental to the garden. Steve says his career-long observation is that landscaping is, ‘mostly a nature-hating activity that wastes resources and displaces useful habitat’. He will discuss designing responsible modern gardens using a few basic rules and design tools.

🔹Steve's presentation is titled: Walls and Weeds

Tickets in bio