Farmer Cass is an example of how Permaculture Design Training (and a whole lotta gumption) can lead from a career in pet minding to full-time organic farmer. Since doing her Milkwood Permaculture Design Course, Cass has travelled and researched different organic farming systems, interned and volunteered on all sorts of farms, and ended up as a…
Here’s how we made some quick garden beds from scrap timber with everyday tools. These took us a morning to make, and they should last quite a few years. We made these beds this way because we’re living in a rental property, so investing in the cost and time of creating permanent veggie beds isn’t an option.…
Ok folks, it’s time to get growing. Spring is just around the corner and we want to help you grow a bumper harvest this season. But there’s so many courses! Which should you choose? Let’s figure this out… Absolute Beginner Gardener Ok so you’re an aspiring green thumb, but you’re not sure where to start. And…
Recently we stayed at a small farm in the Bega valley that raises truly pastured chickens. Like, chase you across the paddock pastured chickens. Each morning, the chickens get let out of their night-time houses, and the houses are moved to fresh grass. Each day, the chickens roam the paddocks under the watchful eye of their…
Darn fine book, this one. A temperate seasonal cooking book with an edge of grit and grime, or maybe that’s just the soil on the garden-fresh vegetables. Rohan Anderson is Mr Whole Larder Love, as many of you will know. He lives in country Victoria with his family, and grows, hunts and forages as much of…
If you’re a Natural Beekeeper, then beeswax is part of your harvest – when you crush your natural comb to extract the honey, there’s beeswax to spare. That’s how beekeeping with natural comb works. It’s a good thing for your bees, because encouraging comb renewal is an important part of colony health. Honeybees prefer to lay their…
The whole freshly ground flour thing has been something i’ve been meaning to sort out for about 8 years now. And we finally did it! A delicious decision. In our kitchen we tend to keep things whole + basic + home produced wherever possible. Life gets in the way of this a bit, but mostly, we…
So what does a permaculture design process look like on the ground, outside the world of a Permaculture Design Course? Here we have Dan Palmer, who’ll be teaching an Advanced Permaculture Design Course with us in October, sharing an example of his design process designing the surrounds of a suburban homestead in Victoria. Take it…
Welcome to our new series on permaculture renting, in which we attempt to grow food and live a simple life while moving from rental to rental at the whim of landlords + Australian housing prices. Yay! So we’ve been off the farm just over a year now. We’ve just moved into our second rental house,…
One of the great things about home mushroom propagation is that it can be entirely portable. Lease ended? No worries – pack up your bags, buckets and logs, and off you go. Your food supply comes with you. Which is good news for renters, like us. Unlike our veggie garden, when we had to move house…
Storing the season can be done in many delicious ways, but I have to say, dried fruit is one of my favourite ways to do it. In Summer, it’s pears, nashis, peaches + strawberries. In Autumn, it’s all about the apples. In Winter, it’s citrus, and kiwi, and banana. And in Spring… well, you’ve got…
Here’s a few photos from our Autumn Natural Beekeeping course in Sydney, and some resources for you to be reading over Winter. These shots are from opening a hive that Adam Kennedy, who hosts our Natural Beekeeping courses, caught as a swarm and housed in a Warré hive box – go Adam! The bees are…
Last weekend we gathered with a crew of local folks to harvest + replant the 107 Rooftop Garden – seedlings, celery, turmeric, leeks + more… First up we led everyone through the skill of seed ball making (we’ll post a how-to on this technique shortly) and then it was on to garden chores. Our monthly garden…
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