Free beginner guides:

Mushrooms Starter Guide

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This free guide introduces you to the essential steps for growing mushrooms at home, our three favourite low-waste ways – in buckets, on logs and in your garden.

Permaculture Starter Guide

Permaculture Starter Guide

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This free guide introduces you to permaculture living – via seven climate-positive actions you can start right now, wherever you live in the world.

Mushrooms Mini-Course

Mushrooms Mini-Course

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This free short course will help you understand the fascinating world of fungi – and what you need to know to start growing mushrooms at home.

Short courses:

Grow a Mushroom Garden at Home

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Learn how to establish abundant, edible & medicinal mushroom gardens throughout your backyard.

Grow Mushrooms on Logs

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Learn all about wood-loving fungi and get the skills you need to produce a regular supply of delicious, nutritious log-grown mushrooms at home.

Take your learning further: with a fully mentored Guided Course

Permaculture Living online course 1

Permaculture Living Course

Online • Next class begins on Monday, 22nd of April • Enrolments open Monday, 8th of April 

This self-paced, 12-week guided course and community will give you all the hands-on skills you need – to cultivate abundance, increase your household’s resilience, save money AND bring lots of climate-positive actions into your everyday… no garden required!

Home Mushroom Cultivation online course - Milkwood

Home Mushroom Cultivation Course

Online • Next class begins on Monday, 20th of May • Enrolments open Monday, 6th of May 

Get ready to learn everything you need to know – to successfully grow a wide range of organic AND waste-free edible & medicinal mushrooms, at your place – on cardboard, in buckets, and logs and gardens too. This is a self-paced and fully mentored 8 week course to get you growing.

Organic Vegetable Gardening Course

Online • Next class begins on Monday, 18th of March • Enrolments open Monday, 4th of March

Ready to grow a thriving veggie patch, full of delicious and healthy produce? Our *brand new* guided course and community course will cover everything you need, from garden design to planting, watering, pests, and harvest.

What our students say…

Past Milkwood courses…

We’ve been teaching skills for sustainable living for 15+ years.

We’ve led face-to-face courses and workshops on everything from regenerative agriculture, natural building, warré beekeeping and organic veggie gardening to fermentation, cheesemaking and our full Permaculture Design Certificate.

From 2007 to 2019, we stewarded more than 8,500 happy students through SO MANY amazing courses held at various locations across Australia – and it was such an honour.

More recently, our focus has turned to online courses – to ensure these important skills and knowledge can be more accessible to all types of folks, all over the world. But, if you like, you can learn more about our past face-to-face courses here.