Intro to Urban Rainwater Harvesting
Here’s a funky little guide for getting started with DIY urban rainwater harvesting projects…
Back to our Roots: Art + Milkwood this Summer
This Summer it happens that we’re involved in not one but two fabulous art exhibitions in Sydney! Namely The Yeoman’s Project at AGNSW and Yoko Ono’s WAR IS OVER (if you want it) at the MCA. Come and visit us!
Spring Permaculture Design Course wrap…
At Milkwood Farm we’re just recovering currently from the intensive learning, laughing and washing up of having nearly 40 fine folk on-farm for two weeks. Here’s the short version of it all in pictures… Yet again, we have been honoured to steward an amazing bunch of people through two weeks of holistic thinking and designing,…
Tarkine Fundraiser in Sydney next Wednesday
Next Wednesday in Sydney there’s a great night happening at Paddington Town Hall with Bob Brown, Ian Cohen and COSTA! Are you coming?
Last Intro to Permaculture course
… for the year is coming up on November 30th folks! It’s two days of principles and design with Nick Ritar, focusing on how you can integrate permaculture ideas into your normal everyday life to make things easier and better for both your family and the planet. It’s pretty rad, and the student feedback is…
5 ideas to kickstart your Urban Permaculture
Think you’ve got no room to grow? Sure you do. If you have a bathroom, a kitchen bench or just an steely resolve, you’ve got what it takes for growing urban goodness…
Winners of our recent Permaculture Piazza Competition…
As part of the shenanigans that went on at the Permaculture Piazza a few weeks back, we ran a big and fabulous competition! And now it’s time to announce the winners…
Building our Greenhouse
‘Next year, we’ll build a proper greenhouse’ – how many years in a row have we said that? At least five. But at last, it’s happened. Given the frosty conditions and temperamental weather here, a happy space for our spring seedlings to germinate and grow has been a wonderful, powerful thing. No more seed raising…
Footpath gardening: new resources for Sydney
City of Sydney has released their footpath gardening policy! And it’s pretty darn encouraging. There’s guidelines and how-tos and even cash grants for folks who want planter boxes…
Urban Permaculture Design Course upcoming…
Time for some city permaculture action! This January, the awesome Hannah Moloney will be teaming up with Milkwood’s Nick to deliver an Urban Permaculture Design course smack bang in the center of Sydney. This Urban PDC will be 13 days of intensive learning, designing and doing with two of Australia’s most dynamic and respected permaculture…
Kombucha, round one
Finally it’s time to start a milkwood kombucha brew, following the donation of a mother mushroom from a friend. We started simple, but we have vast dreams of many flavoured brews, which will adorn our every shelf and fill our tummies with fizzy fermented goodness. But first, the basics…
Sunset Soccer
I think this is what soccer is meant for. Maybe it’s what all sport is meant for. To enable 13 random adults and one 4 year old to get out of their heads and run and dodge and run themselves into a panting, hooting, grinning sweat, as the sun goes down behind the hills…
Preserving Strawberries: hello disaster, meet success
It was too good to be true – a large supply of organic strawberries, and all for me. To turn into the sweetest of christmas gifts – after all, what says ‘thank you for everything’ better than a jar of exquisite, edible rubies? Nothing, that’s what! However manifesting those jars of jewels proved trickier than…