OUR TEAM
 Bruce Molloy
Role: Director. Veggie bed sales and installations. Education & support. Community Garden co-ordinator.
Bruce is the founder and current president of Veggie Village Community Gardens Inc at Peregian Beach. His quest for knowledge of vegetable growing and community care led him to start the garden nearly 18 months ago. Since then he has completed a PDC (Permaculture Design Course) and has helped set up several home gardens throughout the Sunshine Coast including his own suburban backyard at Marcus Beach.
His graphic design and marketing background allows him to easily present education material in a clear and graphical style.
 Janet Millington
Role: Permaculture designer and teacher.
M.Ed.C.A., Grad. Dip Ed., Dip Permaculture Design and Diploma Permaculture.
Involvement with Permaculture began when Janet developed Environmental Study Programs in schools in south-west Sydney in the late seventies. This work led to the study and implementation of Permaculture solutions in the early eighties. Although working in Permaculture from “Permaculture One and Two” and the “Designer’ Manual” , she did her first course with Geoff Lawton in 1995 and then one with Bill Mollison in 1997.
Janet and Mick Millington have designed and implemented a Permaculture design on their 35 acre property, incorporating Bamboo plantation and Farm Forestry. The property has a productive home garden, small animal systems, orchard, food forest as well as restoration of riparian zones. Permaculture courses have been run from the farm in Eumundi for the past ten years.
Janet has been a director of both the Permaculture Institute and Permaculture International and a committee member of Permaculture Noosa. She co-founded the Sunshine Coast Energy Action Centre with Sonya Wallace and is very active in the Transition Towns Movement.
Janet wrote “Outdoor Classrooms…A Handbook for School Gardens”, with Carolyn Nuttall and presents seminars to teachers wishing to set up and fully utilize a school garden in the curriculum. Visit website
 Lin Martin, IndigoC
Role: Communications
Lin Martin of IndigoC is a sustainability communication specialist based on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. Her clients include: businesses, communities and agencies in the fields of resource management, environment, tourism and heritage.
Lin's background is multifaceted- across science, communication, education and photography and she has been communicating for sustainability for over 25 years.
 Sonya Wallace
Role – permaculture teacher, writer, systems designer (compost systems, worm farms, vegie gardening, chook care)
Sonya completed her Permaculture Design Course (PDC) with Janet Millington in October 2006 and her Certificate IV in Training and Assessment in the same month (it was a big year!).
Since then, Sonya has been teaching organic gardening and permaculture while converting her own two organic acres - the Garden of Eatin’ - into a permaculture site. She is now working toward a Diploma of Permaculture.
Sonya has also completed a Certificate in Sustainable Agriculture and numerous home gardening courses – all based on organics and permaculture.
With a background in writing and communications, Sonya is a freelance journalist producing articles for environmental and organic gardening magazines. She runs her own communications agency focussing on working with and promoting ethical green businesses.
 Barry McPhee
Role: Consultant/Project Management.
Permaculture based planning & design, tender & bid management, project supervision & acceptance
Qualifications: Professional Engineer - Electronics Swinburne Vic, Member Inst Engineers - No 11143, Qualified Technical Instructor, Certificate 4 Workplace Training & Assessment, PDC Graduate.
Experience: Project Management locally and offshore including tender response, bid management, contractor evaluation and selection and project delivery and acceptance.
Australian Business Volunteer - projects Thailand - curiculum development - projects - Indonesia - engineering business development consulant.
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