“The Milkwood Permaculture Living Handbook is a guide to improving your home, health and happiness – and the planet – one simple step at a time.Packed with meaningful action for the everyday, it’s full of practical skills and projects – regenerative living for busy people who want to make a positive impact in a world…
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So – you want to grow mushrooms at home. But which mushrooms grow on logs or straw, and why? Can you feed them anything? How do you know what will grow? How do you make sure it’s the mushrooms you wanted… not something else entirely? Why is it all so confusing? All fair enough questions,…
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Carescapes: Permaculture Design for Every Body How to design life with the spoons, time, and energy you actually have. A free Online Conversation & Workshop with Kirsten Bradley (Milkwood) & Anna Matilda (Everyday Permaculture), that happened on Monday 29th Sept In this online workshop, we explored how permaculture design principles can help us design daily life – using…
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A good backyard vegetable garden design starts long before you dig in the dirt. It begins with noticing… where the sun falls, how the wind moves, what you want to grow, and why. And so we’ve made a beginner’s guide to Designing Your Backyard Vegetable Garden that you can use to create a veggie patch…
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Thinking about growing mushrooms on logs at home? Choosing the right kind of wood is one of the most important steps — especially if you’re working with native Australian species. While mushrooms like shiitake and oyster are traditionally grown on oaks, willows, and poplars in their countries of origin, many Australian hardwoods can work well…
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It doesn’t need to be a big campfire, if that’s not where you’re at, this season. It can be just a few sticks. That’s fine. Solstice campfires take many forms. Down to the beach, firewood in hand. To make a fire. To sing the shortest day of the year down, through the setting sun, down…
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Making a mushroom spore print is an excellent way to get to know mushrooms a little better. And as a bonus, Mushroom Spore Prints make beautiful artworks, and are also a great way to learn to ID different mushroom species. So whether you’re after a forest-meets-craft project, or determined to ID your local mushrooms to…
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This season I’ve been working on a progressive pickle process, because that’s how it needs to be done around here, if we want pickles aplenty come winter. Pickles – specifically, cucumber pickles – are very important in our house. They go with, and ontop of, many meals and snacks, and are a blessing in their…
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A note: this article is partly an extract from The Milkwood Permaculture Living Handbook – from chapter one, Observe and Interact. If you’re not familiar with this book, you might like to start by reading the Habits, Hope and the Power of and/also … or the What is Permaculture extracts. Just an idea. These thoughts…
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Companion planting isn’t about strict rules – it’s about principles, observation, and learning from your garden – it’s about understanding how different plants can work together, creating a garden that is more resilient, productive, and a joy to tend. Carrots, silverbeet, and flowering coriander doing their companionable thing in our garden is a perfect example…
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Can you grow mushrooms in bamboo? Why yes, you can. Oyster mushrooms can be grown in all kinds of containers – it just depends where you are, and the resources around you. But there’s a few things to think about, before you choose… here’s some options for low-waste mushroom cultivation… Which containers are good to…
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I can’t wait to get into this Permaculture Holiday Reads book-stack. All are books that I’ve been waiting to read for MONTHS, or have just come out, or just been discovered (by me)…. Like many folks, I sleep beside an aspirational book-stack. The tower-like shrine to ‘one day, when I have a few hours spare’…
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There’s nothing more rewarding than growing, harvesting and enjoying produce that you’ve grown yourself, and we’d love to see everyone growing some of their own vegetables at home. But, starting a vegetable garden can be a bit overwhelming, we know – there’s a lot to think about! Happily, we’ve created a free guide for you…
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Heya lovely readers, guess what? Our next intake of Permaculture Living is currently OPEN for bookings, until Wednesday 10th at 5pm. So if you’ve been planning to join us for a while, now might be a great time? One of the great things about this 12-week online course is that if you need to take…
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