Bushfire Protection for the Home and Garden

Bushfire Protection for the Home and Garden

Join our June webinar with our guest presenter Dr Karen Brown- Senior Consultant at Bushfire Safety Consulting. In this presentation, we look at what the latest research tells us about how a bushfire is likely to impact our homes and gardens, and how we can more effectively reduce this risk while balancing them with other house and garden design objectives. Understanding risk can allow us to plan, prepare and maintain our homes and gardens to reduce the risk to life and our home from bushfire. Dr Brown will also discuss typical permaculture features which can increase or decrease bushfire risk to a building.

There will be time for Q and A.

About Dr Karen Brown:

Dr Karen Brown is a Level 2 BPAD accredited bushfire practitioner with the Fire Protection Association of Australia and has a Graduate Diploma in Bushfire Protection, as well as a PhD in Ecology. Karen works for Bushfire Safety Consulting and regularly undertakes bushfire risk assessment, mitigation planning and education, as well as undertaking projects to balance bushfire risk reduction with the conservation of ecological values. In addition, she has been a member of her local volunteer bushfire brigade since 2015 and is a volunteer advisor with her local catchment group. Karen has had a keen interest in Permaculture for many years, setting up her first urban permaculture garden after the purchase of her first home in 2002. In 2012 she moved to a 7 acre block in the Perth hills and over the years has developed extensive food production and wildlife friendly gardens which incorporate bushfire wise principles.

PermacultureWest members’ tickets are discounted to $5 and non-members are $10. To become a member and avail of the discounted tickets, go here.