We’re on Gardening Australia!

Formidable Vegetable featured on the 30th Birthday Special of Gardening Australia on ABC TV last week playing our new song ‘Grow a Garden’. Check it out!

++ December 16, 2018 ++

‘Tour de Plants’ Summer 2018-19

We’re hitting the road again down the east coast of Aus and over to NZ, heading back to our favourite stomping grounds such as Woodford Folk Festival and Luminate Festival!…

++ February 16, 2018 ++

David Holmgren’s ‘Retrosuburbia’ booklaunch

Last weekend marked the launch of permaculture co-originator’s long-awaited new book, RetroSuburbia: The Downshifter’s Guide to a Resilient Future. It’s a hefty 592 pages of juicy full-colour permaculture gold on how to…

++ February 11, 2018 ++

Perma-funk on ABC News

FoVeg made the headlines this week on ABC News online (shortly after the launch of David Holmgren’s book Retrosuburbia – The Downshifter’s Guide to a Resilient Future). Here’s the chat…

++ May 2, 2017 ++

2017 World Tour: USA-UK-EU Grow Do It Launch

From May to July, we’re off on our fourth (or is it fifth?) World Tour, launching our new album, Grow Do It – which is taking us from beaches of The Kingdom of…

++ March 19, 2017 ++

Formidable Veg are heading back to Glastonbury

It’s official! Your favourite purveyors of climate-change dubstep, perma-funk, post-apocalypso & peak-oil polka are heading back for their third year playing at the biggest music festival in the world: Glastobury!…

++ February 12, 2017 ++

New Single ‘Dad’s Dunny’ out on Valentine’s Day

Here’s something different! Our new song ‘Dad’s Dunny’ dedicated to composting toilets and humanure (‘dunny‘ means toilet to those not familiar with Aussie-slang). It’s out on Bandcamp this Feb 14. In the…

++ October 19, 2016 ++

Tribute to Bill Mollison (1928-2016) – Father of Permaculture

Bill Mollison, co-founder and ‘father’ of permaculture died peacefully in Tasmania on the 24th of September. A few weeks before he died, his daughter Frances got in touch and said…

++ September 2, 2016 ++

Grow Do It Album Launch Tour

It’s happening, people! Formidable Vegetable Sound System’s second proper album, Grow Do It is hitting music stores and hopefully your ears today. It’s a kids’ album with a difference. Have a…

++ August 26, 2016 ++

New album ‘Grow Do It’ featured on national kids’ radio

Yay! Our new album, ‘Grow Do It’ comes out next week and we’re stoked to announce that it’s become this week’s feature album on Australia’s biggest kids’ radio broadcaster, Kinderling…