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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So, how to compost dog poop? Composting your pet’s poop at home is an excellent way to create even more nutrient-rich fertiliser for your garden soil, super-charging everything you grow within it. It’s something we do with our two little dogs and it’s surprisingly easy – although, depending on what type of pet you have,…
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We all know that dahlias are delicious to the eye and the heart, but also – great news! Dahlias (Acocoxochitl) are edible. Flower and tuber. Hooray. However, as with many edible plants… there’s edible, and then there’s tasty. All dahlias are edible, which is a great starting point for experimenting with. And some varieties are…
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Alrighty – Habits for Hope, here we go (what is this? Go here to learn more about the series)… Let’s start with what we see as an utterly essential habit for everyone – learning the story of the Country that you’re on. This usually means learning whose land you are on, and learning how to…
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I’m going to start off here with an extract from the intro section of our latest book The Milkwood Permaculture Living Handbook – I’ll explain why later – let’s dive straight in. Habits, hope and connection – how can we use the first one to create more of the other two? Cultivating connection gives our…
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Growing mushrooms at home in a hot summer is entirely possible, and it can actually increase your household and backyard resilience (and nutrition!) in all kinds of ways – it’s all about working with the seasons, and designing different functions to work together. Quite doable, in any backyard. From providing a diverse harvest for your…
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