This week has been all about vegetables, forest garden establishment and permaculture design. And ferment, as always. In between I snuck in a trip to Allsun Farm and discovered the delights of Old Mill Road Farm at Moruya…
Old Mill Road farm at Moruya. These kids sure can grow. Stand by for full report!
Eggmobile at Allsun Farm at Dawn, with many chookies about to be let out to their daily patch
Candy striped beetroot salad, fresh from the Milkwood Market garden. So gorgeous.
Blue banded bee (native) together with European Honeybee on an early blackberry flower…
The latest from Mr Katz. And an amazing book it is – everything we were hoping for!
Quinoa is up and growing in the forest garden
Forest garden intern Kellie doing a great job on the old logpile that’s been here longer than we have, as we prep the lower slope for holistic orchard planting
First of the daikon from the garden! Let the kimchi season also therefore commence.
PDC student design time
PDC student group designs… it’s all coming together. Amazing work being done, once again.
Much to be thankful for this week, in particular stewarding a crew of Permaculture Design students on towards their future journeys of designing, doing and generally being activators for resilience in their communities, which in this alumni stretch from Iran to Melbourne to Walgett and Dubai. Huzzah to you all!
Our next Permaculture Design Certificate at Milkwood Farm is on 6-19 January and promises to be more of the same – two weeks of immersive and awesome permaculture learning.
The magic of Milkwood! I so enjoy this blog, Kirsten, thank you for sharing your photos and giving a glimpse of the perfect lifestyle.
No worries Carol – tho I wouldn’t call it perfect! Lots of hard work in there too and some sleepless nights to boot. It is all worth it tho 🙂
This is a dreamy post, wow! All the posts are so inspirational. I wish I was young and could jump on the PD wagon! As it is, I will try and incorporate a little here and there in my little garden. Quinoa is gorgeous growing, but as I found with amaranth, processing for the grain is more than I can manage. The lettuces above are glorious. I’m going out to plant some more lettuce seeds if I can find a spot. Do you eat the thinly sliced beet root raw? – Kaye
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Hi Kirsten, after 28 years developing permaculture I know all about the hard work and I have to ask when exactly does the designer become the recliner? I hope you get lots of good help for the wonderful work your doing Kirsten and Nick, and if you score a holiday ever come and see us in the West
oh those beetroots! I have tried a couple of times but had no luck with the seeds coming up… I will try again now I’ve seen those pics 🙂