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The winter green manure mix has done it’s job, and done it well. Now for the transformation – green carpet turns to living mulch turns into seed bed. It’s planting time.
The winter green manure mix has done it’s job, and done it well. Now for the transformation – green carpet turns to living mulch turns into seed bed. It’s planting time.
The excellent crew over at Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance are making a doco that will tackle some very big issues happening in Australia right now. Do we really want a local food system and national food security? Time to shed some much-needed light on this subject, beyond the 2 minute news grab. Enter the Just…
Chickens are an excellent addition to any small-scale growing system, if you have the space. They recycle green waste and produce two very valuable things for the small-scale gardener: fresh eggs, and chicken manure. In a rooftop garden scenario, there’s no reason that chickens can’t still be a valuable part of the growing system. A…
Being a beginner beekeeper involves asking an awful lot of questions. In a good way. You are, after all, taking on the stewardship of a super-organism composed of between 20 and 60,000 individual bees. In light of the constant stream of questions that Tim Malfroy fields from students, Tim and I decided it was high…
We live on a rapidly changing planet, and we know the world that our children will wake up to as adults will not look like this one. There are many reasons for this change, and many elephants in that room of many reasons. One of those reasons is our number. We are many. And every…
Last Autumn we hosted a Forest Garden Design Intensive with Dave Jacke at Milkwood Farm. It was a truly awesome experience, and it changed the way many of us at Milkwood (and beyond) approach permaculture design education, and permaculture design process. To summarise, it was 9 days of immersive permaculture design, using forest ecosystems as analogies…
Spring will be here any second now… I can smell it through the sleet. Ok maybe it’s a little while off still. But the wattles are flowering! And so are the fruit trees, down in the valley. The green manures in the market garden are about to be turned into the soil to make our…
We think it is high time we started introducing you to the network of awesomeness that is the growers and doers we work with, and whom we take inspiration from. These are the folks we know and love who spend their days wrangling, organising and producing clean food in small, localised food systems. So that…
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