Hooray for the 2015 Permaculture Calendar! Once again the crew at permacultureprinciples.com have created a beautiful and intimate calendar that is packed with useful info and also just plain lovely to have on your wall. And yes, it also has the best cover boy of all time (not that we’re biased or anything) – namely our little…
Next in our lineup of Permaculture Design Course grads are Michael Zagoridis and Emma Bowen from Green Up Top – a social enterprise dedicated to farming pockets of Sydney’s inner-urban suburbs. Zag went on to do a market gardening internship with us at our farm, and these days, there’s no stopping these two pocket rockets of…
Now that we’re gardening in a frost-free area we have to get acquainted with a new bunch of sub tropical-ish weeds. This week, it’s been all about the Madeira Vine. In our new garden, the stuff is everywhere. Look up Madeira vine and you will find gazillions of references to its invasive and terrible habits. But…
One of the gorgeous features of a Warré Hive is their cute gabled roofs. In Australia, those gables help primarily with insulating the hive from extreme heat (and therefore lowering colony stress) by providing circulation. The Warré Hive was, however, developed in France – and those beautiful gabled roofs were originally designed for winter snows!…
Ok folks, we’re excited about this one: an Aussie-initiated open source food network dedicated to connecting producers with consumers, every which way you can imagine. Yes, I know. There are a lot of these kinda ideas out there. They’ve all got their hearts in the right place. But we rekon THIS ONE has not only…
When it comes to learning market gardening from the experts, we think Michael and Joyce from Allsun Farm are up there with the best. They walked us through setting up our original market garden at the old Milkwood property in Mudgee many years ago, and farm seasonal vegetables at their thriving productive property in Gundaroo, NSW.
Hey folks, we’re trying a new thingy. Like many out there, I love (like, really love) finding out about good news and articles that (generally) sit squarely outside the mainstream media. But I don’t want to spend my life glued to the screen in order to find it all. So, incase this is you too, I thought…
A few Sundays back, we took over a guestaurant in Redfern to get messy. Cabbage was chopped, vegetables were brined, milk was kefir-ed, kombucha was drunk and much was learned. All in the glorious undertaking of learning how to use fermentation to make healthful and seriously delicious stuff out of simple fresh ingredients. Triple yum.
There may be no greater kick you can get than that twinge of excitement when you come across food ripe for the foraging. Whether it’s a loaded lemon tree hanging over your neighbour’s fence, weeds run rampant in a spare paddock nearby, a forest filled with pine mushrooms or a blackberry bush by the side…
Hey folks of South East New South Wales persuasion…. do you know about this excellent weekend gathering coming up?
All moved in to our little rental house. The pantry is full of Mudgee passata, large baskets of last seasons’ potatoes, and the remains of the garlic harvest. The walls are faintly pink, the decor somewhat questionable and the rainwater (currently) gets piped off to god-knows where. There is a lemon tree, and a back fence. And a…