Give me your tips. This wood fired family needs some love. So we’re about to embark on our first full Winter of cooking on a woodstove. In particular, a Rayburn Royal. It has hot spots, cold spots and an oven that cooks everything really well on the left side. I know there’s HEAPS to learn…
This short documentary is about a weekend workshop hosted recently by Ampersand Sustainable Learning Center. Watershed Restoration: The Cutting Edge was taught by Brad Lancaster, Amanda Bramble, Jan-Willem Jansens, Steve Carson, and Craig Sponholtz. It focused on catching, sinking, storing, and using water where it falls. So good to see this knowledge gaining ground spreading…
Recently we welcomed a crew of budding market gardeners to Milkwood Farm to start learning the craft of organic market gardening. The crew was a mix of city folks dreaming of rooftop farms, enterprising suburban folks, small farm owners looking to diversify and keen-but-landless growers looking for opportunities. All of them left full of good…
Sun Hives are a hive design coming out of Germany and now gathering interest in Britain. They’re part of the world-wide movement towards ‘apicentric’ beekeeping – beekeeping that prioritizes honeybees firstly as pollinators, with honey production being a secondary goal. The Sun Hive is modeled in part on the traditional European skep hive, and is…
Never underestimate the power of a simple, bush-pole structure. Our market garden shed might be rustic, in every sense of the word, but it is 100% pure awesomeness. It keeps tools and organic minerals dry, ordered and available, all in the center of the action.
We’re excited to announce that Milkwood Farm veggies will be available in Sydney from this afternoon at the Real Food Projects pop-up shop at 27 Enmore Road, Newtown, Sydney. The best corn, beans, eggplant and cucumbers you’ve ever tasted, grown with love, care and a great deal of compost at Milkwood Farm, by us! Available…
The peaches growing out the back of the homestead are grown from cuttings of an ancient peach tree that Nick’s parents found when they bought Kirwin, the property next door to Milkwood Farm. So technically, these peaches could be said to be from a 120 year old tree. Whatever their vintage, they grow like no…
This Summer has been downright weird, weather-wise. Which has meant all sorts of things, for all sorts of things. Including for the bees of Milkwood Farm, and the bees of eastern Australia in general. For the central west of NSW (Where Milkwood Farm is) it’s been a crazy dry Spring/Summer with short downpours, following on…
Last weekend Milkwood made the telly! Sydney Weekender to be exact… it was a bit of fun. Big thanks to everyone who helped pull the day of filming off, including our awesome crew and friends from afar…
Egg pies. They look remarkably like quiches, but can be eaten by everyone, even ‘real men’. They both taste great, especially when loaded with home made bacon, labneh (soft yoghurt cheese) and spinach, encased in a spelt crust. Once apon a time, a few years ago, Milkwood Farm ran our first course for 50 farmers…
Stand by for exploding lettuce! It’s the nature of summer growing. One minute they’re tiny seedlings in trays, then they’re planted out, and then, in no time at all, kaBOOM. Beautiful, sweet lettuce. Everywhere.
Blackberries are our favorite noxious weed, by far. They provide valuable habitat for small birds, hold eroded creekbanks together where nothing else will, and bring forth a motherlode of antioxidant and vitamin rich berries, right about this time of year. Ashar and I have been going foraging on a regular basis in the name of…
We love a good bit of barter. Especially when it’s for amazing blood orange cordial and lunch in the city. And now as a result, folks in Marrickville are chomping on Milkwood salad! Whoohoo. Last week Nick and Gigi were heading down to Sydney for a Mushroom Cultivation course. We’d heard that there was a…
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