Edible, native and delicious. Will’s been growing these beauties in his home mushroom cultivation setup on blocks of grain spawn. Like many other mushrooms, once you know how, these beautiful fungi can be cloned and propagated at home (if you have a reliable source). After which point you can re-produce them indefinitely.
So most of our spring seedlings are now out of their soil blocks and getting planted into the ground. But being Mudgee, there’s still plenty of frosts, which doesn’t sit well with spring veggies – time for spring row covers! Row covers are pretty invaluable in a small setup like ours – we dont have…
Last week Milkwood Permaculture was the proud winner of the 2012 Green Lifestyles Awards in the Garden Company category. We won it for being “a company whose products are consistently amazing, who are the pinnacle of sustainability behind the scenes, & who are working to green our food culture”. Wow. And I even got to…
Just a few photos from the recent and awesome Market Garden Masterclass at Allsun Farm down in Gundaroo. It was so exciting to have 25 future market gardeners in the one space, all with so many skills and ambitions! Joyce, Mike and the whole Allsun Farm crew packed us full of knowledge over three days…
Here’s a great little DIY vertical aquaponics design that Floyd has recently installed outside a studio in Darwin. It’s a simple system, designed to transform a simple patio into a space of low-maintenance beauty that includes the sound of running water, the cooling effect of a pond, and bountiful herbs!
Spring is swarming season! At this time of year, honeybee colonies that have either outgrown their available hive space or have deemed their hive unsuitable for whatever reason start taking off in search of a new home. For natural beekeepers, it’s a great time to catch yourself a new colony. Our friend Steve was ready…
At the risk of creating a series of seedy posts, just thought I better mention the other Seed Freedom event we’re running: The Seed Savers in conversation with Costa, in Redfern on the evening of the 12th Oct. I only put it up last night but it’s already 4/5 full. It’s heartening to know that…
On Saturday the 13 October we’ll be running a special workshop in Sydney with Jude and Michel Fanton from The Seedsavers, as part of the Seed Freedom fortnight of action, which is happening worldwide from October 2-16. This day will be a seed saving 101 meets intensive day of discussion about the global state of…
An ecoPOP is a small and self-contained city oasis, boasting a simple, self-contained system of self-watering fruit trees, herbs, water collection and a worm farm. Intended to be installed in places like a median strip in a suburban street, they’re designed to incrementally offset the ‘heat island’ effect of urban streets, slow traffic, and create…
Cold frames are a great way to get the jump on the growing season with your seedlings, without a big outlay of cash. Recently we built a bunch out of re-purposed glass doors and hardwood frames, and they’re working a treat. Since our last frost is in November, September is still full of icy mornings,…
Last weekend Michael, Zag and Stephen packed the ute with seeds, mulch and tools, and went to Sydney to teach a Serious Backyard Veggies workshop with special guest Costa Georgiadis. Planting, planning what goes where and what goes in next, natural pest management and all the ‘how to grow great tomatoes/eggplant/celery/carrots etc’ tips that could…
The deal with Rose the permachef returning to Milkwood Farm this Spring is this: apon her return (which is imminent) she will move into the completed (ok nearly) earthbag dome, ensuring her personal seclusion and wood-fired comfort for the coming season. The earthbag dome, while awesome, has been somewhat of a side-project since the first…
‘You have to come to the Allsun farm open day’ said my scythe-mad friend Nikki. ‘They’re a microfarm and they do market gardening and all this amazing stuff there with integrated animal systems and they’re just brilliant’. Hmm, we thought. That sounds kinda interesting. So we side-tracked our road trip to Gundaroo for the Allsun…
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