Grow food

Veggies, soil, seeds and water, and how they all work together in a home garden.

People digging a new garden bed together

Organic Gardening

Building an aquaponics system with a fish tank and grow bed

Aquaponics

A black compost bin beside a vegetable garden

Composting & Nutrient Cycling

Hands holding a clump of dark soil

Regenerative Farming

Pumpkin seeds drying beside labelled paper envelopes

Seed Saving

Picking ripe tomatoes into a basket

Tomatoes

Water pouring into a tub in the garden

Water Harvesting & Reuse

A handful of compost worms

Worm Farming

Learn with us: Organic Vegetable Gardening

Mushrooms & wild food

Growing mushrooms at home, plus foraging for wild fungi, fruit, greens and seaweed.

Oyster mushrooms fruiting from a plastic bucket

Mushroom Cultivation

A basket of foraged fruit on the grass

Foraging

A morel mushroom held in an open hand

Mushroom Foraging

Three kinds of seaweed laid out on a board

Seaweed

Learn with us: Home Mushroom Cultivation

Permaculture & community

Permaculture in everyday life, plus our books, community projects, student stories and free guides.

Hand-drawn permaculture site maps on a table

Permaculture

People planting a tree at a community garden

Community Projects & Resilience

Cover of The Milkwood Permaculture Living Handbook

Milkwood Permaculture Living Handbook

The Milkwood book on display

The Milkwood book

Students working on laptops during a course

Courses & Workshops

A free permaculture living guide shown on a tablet

Free Guides

A student kneeling in her home vegetable garden

Student Stories

Learn with us: Permaculture Living

Animals & bees

Keeping animals and bees, on a small farm or in the backyard.

Goats browsing in a paddock

Animals

Beehives in an orchard

Natural Beekeeping

Kitchen & home skills

Fermenting, preserving and cooking from the garden, plus building and making things by hand.

People lifting a timber pole frame in a paddock

Appropriate Technology

Cucumbers packed into jars for pickling

Fermenting, Pickling & Preserving

Applying a clay render to a straw-bale wall

Natural Building

Kefir cheese spread on rye bread beside the jar

Recipes

Stories & places

Stories from the places we’ve lived and worked, and the books we keep going back to.

A stack of books on a table with persimmons

Book Recommendations

A two-storey solar house above a garden

Life at Melliodora

Timber steps built into a slope beside the chook house

Life at Milkwood Farm

A misty morning over the garden and orchard

Life at Quoll Hollow

Lighting a campfire on a rocky riverbank

Rambling & Adventures