Firstly, we acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the un-ceded nations throughout Australia and recognise their continuing connections to land, water and community. We pay our respects to them and their cultures, and to elders past, present and emerging.
Milkwood is based in from talune / Cygnet, in southern lutruwita / Tasmania – on Melukerdee country. We pay rent to SETAC.
We started off as just a small crew: Kirsten Bradley, Nick Ritar (and later our kiddo, Ash) – when we moved to Nick’s family farm in NSW Australia, in 2006, to build a tiny house and grow some food. This somehow turned into a wild and wonderful, permaculture-farm-school-experiment-thing – called Milkwood.
We welcomed students and teachers from all over the world to our tin-shed classroom during those years, and we all learned a lot!
Together, we teach permaculture living, organic veggie gardening and home mushroom cultivation, to help create resilient and abundant households and communities, wherever we can.
We do this by providing free online resources & offering world-class training – skills that give you the confidence to create permanently sustainable systems.
Students leave our courses ready and able to design and implement a better future for their families, farms and communities.
Most recently, we have poured everything that we’ve learned – from years of teaching, learning, growing and collaborating – into creating world-class online student learning experiences.
So now, you can join us and learn from anywhere – hooray!
Head this way to see all our upcoming courses – and get inspired to live life better…
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▶ The Black Sheep School of Cheesemaking
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▶ The Accountability Institute
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Permaculture educator, beekeeper and fermentation enthusiast.
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Organic market gardener.
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▶ Savory
Holistic Land Management founder and leader of a global movement of regenerative farmers and land managers.
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Mini market gardener, passionate about all things related to chickens, food growing and community, and steward of a very cute puppy called Alvin.
