Milkwood: permaculture courses, skills + stories

Skills and stories for growing, designing + living like it matters

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Permaculture skills, stories, how-to guides & inspiration - for living like it matters.

Articles

Permaculture skills, stories, how-to guides & inspiration - for living like it matters.

Learning the Story of the Country You’re On – Habits for Hope #0

December 6, 2023

Habits, Hope + the Power of And/Also

November 27, 2023

Growing Mushrooms at Home in Hot Summers

September 19, 2023

Cover of "The Milkwood Permaculture Living Handbook" by Kirsten Bradley, featuring illustrations of sunflowers and birds on a cream background with blue and orange text.

A peek inside The Milkwood Permaculture Living Handbook

August 15, 2023

Garden Dreaming – The First Year of our New Garden

What Is Permaculture?

DIY Mushroom Cardboard Spawn: an Easy Mushroom Cloning Technique

A black on white linocut depicting two sunflower plants growing out of a pair of hands. A bee, a wasp and a butterfly circle around. Artwork by Dalee Ella

We cannot help transform a world that does not know us

Get started with seed saving

Milkwood’s Top 10 Strategies for Household Resilience

‘Active Hope is a Practice’ – a conversation

10 Best Mushrooms to Grow at Home

6 Simple Ways to Start Growing Your Own Food While Renting

December 12, 2022

A handful of homemade seed-raising mix

How to Make the Best-Ever Seed Raising Mix

November 7, 2022

How to Make a Wild Food Map to Forage Your Local Neighbourhood

October 24, 2022

Delicious pickled mushrooms in a jar.

Pickling Mushrooms, Two Ways: a Lacto-Ferment + a Salted Recipe

September 19, 2022

Nick, Kirsten and Ash of Milkwood - permaculture living

7 Climate-Positive Ways To Get Started With Permaculture Living

Enrolments for our next Organic Vegetable Gardening course are open now.