About Fryers Forest

                          LAKE HARIDAS OCTOBER 2010

Some of the following was "borrowed" from Wikipedia. Thanks to the contributors.

Fryers Forest is an intentional community situated in a Box Eucalypt forest in Central Victoria, Australia. The landscape is still recovering from the gold rush of the 1850s as well as the intesive land use of more recent times. Fryers Forest is now in a stage of regeneration and recovery.

It was designed by David Holmgren and developed with his partner Su Dennett, along with Sam and Haridas Fairchild.


 Fryers Forest in the Dry Times


This rural eco-village consists of 11 residential titles (1 acre each) clustered within 300 acres (1.2 km2) of native box eucalypt forest.

There are currently 9 dwellings, housing 26 villagers - 16 grown ups and 11 children. The amenities include a small community orchard, three artificial lakes stocked with fish and a community house in the making.


Fryers Forest in the Wet