Here’s three great books we’ve read recently on creating resilience and abundance on the small, down the side and round the back. They’re three very different books, and we rekon they’re all excellent resources to have on you Urban Permaculture bookshelf.
These are a great family project – it’s easy, happy, messy craft, with the bonus of ticking all your handmade, buy-nothing christmas boxes all at once. Excellent.
Here’s a funky little guide for getting started with DIY urban rainwater harvesting projects…
This Summer it happens that we’re involved in not one but two fabulous art exhibitions in Sydney! Namely The Yeoman’s Project at AGNSW and Yoko Ono’s WAR IS OVER (if you want it) at the MCA. Come and visit us!
At Milkwood Farm we’re just recovering currently from the intensive learning, laughing and washing up of having nearly 40 fine folk on-farm for two weeks. Here’s the short version of it all in pictures… Yet again, we have been honoured to steward an amazing bunch of people through two weeks of holistic thinking and designing,…
Next Wednesday in Sydney there’s a great night happening at Paddington Town Hall with Bob Brown, Ian Cohen and COSTA! Are you coming?
Think you’ve got no room to grow? Sure you do. If you have a bathroom, a kitchen bench or just an steely resolve, you’ve got what it takes for growing urban goodness. Here’s some ideas to get you going, wherever you live…
‘Next year, we’ll build a proper greenhouse’ – how many years in a row have we said that? At least five. But at last, it’s happened. Given the frosty conditions and temperamental weather here, a happy space for our spring seedlings to germinate and grow has been a wonderful, powerful thing. No more seed raising…
City of Sydney has released their footpath gardening policy! And it’s pretty darn encouraging. There’s guidelines and how-tos and even cash grants for folks who want planter boxes…
Time for some city permaculture action! This January, the awesome Hannah Moloney will be teaming up with Milkwood’s Nick to deliver an Urban Permaculture Design course smack bang in the center of Sydney. This Urban PDC will be 13 days of intensive learning, designing and doing with two of Australia’s most dynamic and respected permaculture…
Finally it’s time to start a milkwood kombucha brew, following the donation of a mother mushroom from a friend. We started simple, but we have vast dreams of many flavoured brews, which will adorn our every shelf and fill our tummies with fizzy fermented goodness. But first, the basics…
I think this is what soccer is meant for. Maybe it’s what all sport is meant for. To enable 13 random adults and one 4 year old to get out of their heads and run and dodge and run themselves into a panting, hooting, grinning sweat, as the sun goes down behind the hills…