In less than two weeks we’ll be opening up the Milkwood market garden for 3 days of hands-on learning in the craft of organic market gardening. Last chance till Autumn to get your learning on! It will be a scrumptious and inspiring workshop. Check out the pictures from last time here…
The final stage of building the roof of our roundhouse was to transform it into a garden. Living roofs can help insulate the building below, provide pollination sources for surrounding wildlife and help the building blend into the landscape. However, this roof is far from flat. It’s made on a reciprocal frame, to create great…
Well composted humanure is one of the most excellent tree planting resources you can have, on a site like ours. So much so that, when we clear out the Humanure Hacienda once a year, it’s compost is reserved specifically for helping new and precious trees to grow… This is what shit looks like after a…
Huzzah. The 2014 Permaculture Calendar is out – and it’s a beauty. This year, it even includes a funky (and very useful) moon planting guide within. In celebration of this fine publication, we’ve got a few copies to pass on…
Movable greenhouses (on rails, skids or wheels) can be a great idea for the serious backyard grower or small-scale veggie farmer. They’re a great way to benefit your plants, extend your growing season and avoid the potential insect and disease buildup of greenhouse growing…
My entire country is in hysterics. Heck, I am nearly in hysterics. It’s election day tomorrow, and it’s likely to be extremely not good. Clearly it is time for seedling porn. How are your spring babies coming along? Are you likely to match Rob from Warrah Farm’s impressive germination rates on his organic, biodynamic seedlings this…
The shiitakes are ready! After months of waiting, we could see that the logs we inoculated were fully colonised by the mycelium. Time to dunk them in water, give them a whack, and wait expectantly for harvest day…
The winter green manure mix has done it’s job, and done it well. Now for the transformation – green carpet turns to living mulch turns into seed bed. It’s planting time.
The excellent crew over at Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance are making a doco that will tackle some very big issues happening in Australia right now. Do we really want a local food system and national food security? Time to shed some much-needed light on this subject, beyond the 2 minute news grab. Enter the Just…
Chickens are an excellent addition to any small-scale growing system, if you have the space. They recycle green waste and produce two very valuable things for the small-scale gardener: fresh eggs, and chicken manure. In a rooftop garden scenario, there’s no reason that chickens can’t still be a valuable part of the growing system. A…
Being a beginner beekeeper involves asking an awful lot of questions. In a good way. You are, after all, taking on the stewardship of a super-organism composed of between 20 and 60,000 individual bees. In light of the constant stream of questions that Tim Malfroy fields from students, Tim and I decided it was high…
We live on a rapidly changing planet, and we know the world that our children will wake up to as adults will not look like this one. There are many reasons for this change, and many elephants in that room of many reasons. One of those reasons is our number. We are many. And every…
Last Autumn we hosted a Forest Garden Design Intensive with Dave Jacke at Milkwood Farm. It was a truly awesome experience, and it changed the way many of us at Milkwood (and beyond) approach permaculture design education, and permaculture design process. To summarise, it was 9 days of immersive permaculture design, using forest ecosystems as analogies…
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