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

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Permaculture skills,, stories, how-to guides & inspiration - for living like it matters.
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10 Best Mushrooms to Grow at Home

March 21, 2023

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

15 Ways to Start Permaculture Living in a Rental

October 10, 2022
Delicious pickled mushrooms in a jar.

Two Pickled Mushroom Recipes: Probiotic + Lacto-Fermented Goodness

September 19, 2022
Permculture-Living-students-Peter-and-Claire

Repair + Renewal With Heart – Making Fine Furniture From Foraged Urban Materials

August 17, 2022
Nick, Kirsten and Ash of Milkwood - permaculture living

7 Climate-Positive Ways To Get Started With Permaculture Living

July 26, 2022

The Pros & Cons of Having an Indoor Fireplace

July 4, 2022

Milkwood Book Club – Recommendations for Climate-Positive Reads

June 21, 2022

Growing Mushrooms on Logs – Video

June 20, 2022

How To Join A Crop Swap: Tips From Laurie Green

May 16, 2022

How to Compost At Home: A Beginner’s Guide

May 3, 2022

Growing Mushrooms Without Plastic Bags + Other Ethical Home Cultivation Practices

April 11, 2022

Permaculture Chef: Meet Simon Toohey

February 14, 2022
Mushroom foraging - learn how 1

How To: Grow Edible Mushrooms In Your Home Garden

February 2, 2022

Herbal Tea Posy – Community Care in a Jar

January 24, 2022

15 Fun & Simple Holiday Projects for the Garden, Kitchen & Beyond

December 20, 2021
How to plant in a no-dig pot

Make Your Own No-Dig Gardens in Pots, To Grow Loads of Veggies

December 6, 2021
How to pickle workshops

How To Pickle & Lacto-ferment Veggies – Video + Resources

November 23, 2021

Thanks For Helping Us Reach 20k ‘Milkwood’ Books Out in the Wild

November 8, 2021

The Life Cycle of Fungi: Video

October 18, 2021

How To Build Healthy Soil for Your Best-Ever Veggies

September 22, 2021

Start Your Own Home Herbal Medicine Cabinet – Using Wild Plants Growing Near You

September 20, 2021
Children planting veggies at the Nundle Community Garden.

Nundle Community Garden: Connecting a Small Town Via Local Food + Composting

August 30, 2021

Our Backyard Permaculture Design for Quoll Hollow

August 15, 2021

Growing Mushrooms: Getting Started with No-Waste Buckets, Logs & Gardens

August 2, 2021
Home-Mushroom-Cultivation-course-launch

Home Mushroom Cultivation – our new online course

July 19, 2021

Video: Rainwater Harvesting at Home for Beginners

June 23, 2021

What is permaculture? – notes from the Permaculture Living course

June 11, 2021

Building an All-Abilities Veggie Garden: a Chat with Grant Bailey

May 31, 2021

How To Prune Fruit Trees: in Winter and in Summer, too

May 4, 2021

Curing Olives: Basic Brine + Salt Methods

April 28, 2021

Getting Started with Green Manures: How to Grow & Use for Your Best-Ever Soil & Veggies

March 12, 2021

Food is Free: Growing Food and Community in the City of Ballarat

March 5, 2021
Worm farms

Video: The Beginner’s Guide to Worm Farms

March 1, 2021
The Local Yum honesty stall

How to: Honesty Stalls + Free Food Stands – Building Community, Sharing Produce

January 18, 2021

Easy + Delicious Permaculture Holiday Recipes

December 14, 2020

Radical Hope: Bushfire Resources for a La Niña Year

November 16, 2020

Farm It Forward: connecting young farmers with donated land to grow organic food

November 3, 2020

‘Valuing the Marginal’ + a Free Foraging Guide

October 12, 2020

Starting a Garden or Nature Diary – to Record Observations & Build Connections

August 28, 2020

The Beginner’s Guide to Keeping Healthy, Happy Chickens + a downloadable checklist

August 13, 2020

Video: How to Do a 5 Day, No-Waste Challenge!

July 2, 2020

Using what you have, to create Abundance and Community

June 16, 2020
Oyster mushrooms are easy to grow in buckets - learn mushroom cultivation now to grow your own.

Video: How To Grow Mushrooms in Buckets & a Wild Fungi Foraging Guide

June 1, 2020

Creating a Resilient Garden: with pollinators, good bugs, lizards and more!

May 18, 2020

Reducing & Reusing: Why Our Single-Use Packaging Habits Matter

May 11, 2020

Making a Mini Greenhouse, to Extend Your Growing Season

May 4, 2020
Seed saving at Milkwood

Video: Seed Saving Basics & Starting Your Own Seed Bank

April 26, 2020
Hawthorn foraging and using

Hawthorn: Foraging and Using – for heart and immunity care

April 6, 2020

8 weeks to Victory! An 8-week veggie patch from scratch, in a rental

March 31, 2020

Free Resources for Home-Based Living, in the Time of CoronaVirus

March 17, 2020
Growing sprouts on kitchen bench

Video: How to grow Sprouts and Microgreens on your Kitchen Bench

March 9, 2020

How To Research the Life Cycle of One Product You Use Daily

March 2, 2020

Preparing for a Pandemic: a Permaculture Perspective

February 26, 2020

Learning Your Local Waterways

February 24, 2020

How To Actively Manage Your House’s Temperature

February 17, 2020

How to Pay The Rent

February 10, 2020

Learn 5 Wild & Useful Plants Near You

February 3, 2020

Video: Digging into the 12 Permaculture Principles

January 28, 2020

How to create a Personal Goal Statement for 2020

January 20, 2020

Radical Hope: Home-Based Ideas for Climate Action

November 26, 2019

Climate Ready Communities: Resources for Radical Hope

November 18, 2019

Two Fold: a Community Supported Bakery

October 7, 2019

Permaculture Living – our new online course

September 30, 2019

5 Things every Future Farmer needs to know – with Olivier Sofo of Living Earth Farms

August 19, 2019

Off to the Southern Wilds…

June 17, 2019

Good Books for Troubled Times

June 4, 2019

Easy Peasy: Gardening for Kids

May 3, 2019

Elderberry Everything: wine, vinegar, medicine + more

February 22, 2019

Milkwood Autumn Courses: Beekeeping, Mushrooms & more

January 28, 2019

The Milkwood Kids Seaweed Guide

January 8, 2019

A year of seaweed, jungles and campfires (and a book)

December 17, 2018

Making: Wild Fermented Elderflower Soda

November 26, 2018

Beeswax DIY: making beeswax wraps + how to render your own wax

November 19, 2018

The Right to Roam: tips for first-time foragers

November 6, 2018

Growing Great Tomatoes: Planting ’em Out

October 11, 2018

Natural Beekeeping: a Principles Based Approach

September 30, 2018

Making Wildwood Tea

September 18, 2018

Milkwood Book events: September (all of them!)

September 4, 2018

The Tomato: History, Growing Tips + Our Best-Ever Seed Raising Mix

September 3, 2018

The Milkwood Book

July 30, 2018

Winter reading: Great Gardening Books

July 3, 2018

Permaculture Futures: Emmanuela Prigioni, Lyttleton Stores

June 4, 2018

All About Feijoas: growing, harvesting + recipes

May 10, 2018

How to Grow Great Garlic: a beginners guide

April 23, 2018

Holistic Decision Making: 5 Things with Dan Palmer

March 29, 2018

RetroSuburbia: the downshifters guide to a resilient future

February 27, 2018

Making an Off-grid DIY Mushroom Fruiting House

October 19, 2017

27 Life Hacks for Permaculture Living

September 25, 2017

Foraging + Using Turkeytail Mushrooms – Trametes Versicolour

August 14, 2017

Winter: Feijoa harvests + bioluminescent mushrooms

June 13, 2017

Food Co-ops + Collectives: 3 models of community food systems

May 15, 2017

Planting a Three Sisters Garden: stacking in space and time

April 21, 2017

Creating Community: The Growing Abundance Project

March 6, 2017

Natural Building: Passive House, Active People

February 6, 2017

Mid Summer: Berries, plums + treehouse builds

January 16, 2017

Our Permaculture Kitchen Staples: sourdough, cheese, kraut, tibicos + jun

December 19, 2016

Natural Beekeeping: Dealing with Small Hive Beetle

December 5, 2016

Milk Kefir: breaker of chains, un-pasteurizer of milk

November 14, 2016

Closed-Loop Cheese: The Goat Forage System at Melliodora

October 31, 2016

Creating community: the 107 Rooftop Garden’s first 2 years

October 24, 2016

Review: The Art of Frugal Hedonism + Grown and Gathered

October 17, 2016

New Online Course: Profitable Urban Farming

October 10, 2016

Foraging: Australian Morels – Morchella australiana

September 26, 2016

The Dirt on Pocket City Farms

September 19, 2016

Making DIY Glass Cloches for Early Spring Plants

September 12, 2016

Starting a Mushroom Garden – 5 ways to get growing

September 5, 2016

Home Made: 3 Bathtub Greywater System

August 22, 2016

Foraging + Eating Sea Lettuce: Ulva Lactuca

August 8, 2016

Growing: Enokitake Mushrooms in the Currant Patch

July 25, 2016

Making Tempeh – as food, and village revitalisation

July 18, 2016

Natural Beekeeping: Beekeeping with Small Children

July 11, 2016

Making Seaweed Fertilizer: with added Nettles, Comfrey and Borage

July 4, 2016

Natural Building: Deciding Which Method to Use for Walls

June 27, 2016

Permaculture Futures: Linda Machon, Organic Farmer

June 20, 2016

Keeping Backyard Quails: Efficient Home-Grown Protein

June 13, 2016

Foraging, Drying + Eating Seaweed in Australia

June 6, 2016

Urban Mushroom Farming – 4 Great (yet small) Enterprises

May 30, 2016

Retrofitting the Suburbs for an Abundant DIY Future

May 23, 2016

Pumpkin Seeds: Save them, Eat them, Plant them

May 16, 2016

Permaculture Design, Mushrooms + Wallaby Tracks: Our Autumn PDC

May 12, 2016

Making: Simple Sauerkraut, from whatever Greens you’ve Got

May 9, 2016

Radical Mycology by Peter McCoy

May 2, 2016

Compost, Forks and the Future: Autumn Biointensive Growing course

April 28, 2016

Making: Apple Scrap Vinegar

April 26, 2016

So what is Permaculture Teacher Training: Hannah Moloney interview

April 18, 2016

Listen to This: Land Cultures – Bruce Pascoe – David Holmgren

April 14, 2016

Moving to Melliodora

April 11, 2016

Nature Play: Raising a Butterfly at Home

April 4, 2016

Permaculture Renting: the De-Gardening Part

April 1, 2016

How Brydie Became a Compost Geek

March 29, 2016

The Fair Food edition of PIP Mag is out!

March 24, 2016

Storage Crops: Top 3 Beans to Grow in a Biointensive System

March 21, 2016

Making: DIY Fruit Leather Roll ups

March 7, 2016

Slow Food Kids: How To Get Young Folk Cooking at Home

February 29, 2016

Our Passata Day, and How to Make Your Own

February 25, 2016

Farming the Commons: How to Turn Brambles into Goats Cheese

February 22, 2016

Farming the Suburbs: a Visit to Popes Produce

February 15, 2016

A Summer Permaculture Design Certificate in pictures…

February 11, 2016

Making Lilli Pilli Gin: and muffins, and cordial, and chutney…

February 8, 2016

On Voluntary Simplicity, and Frugality

February 5, 2016

New Milkwood Video: What We’re All About

February 3, 2016

Visiting Melliodora in a Dry Year

January 25, 2016

A Frugal Feast: Making Fish Terrine from Scraps

January 21, 2016

Starting Seedlings in Seed Trays, Biointensive Style

January 15, 2016

Warré Honey Harvest: Processing a Box of Natural Honeycomb

January 11, 2016

Permaculture Futures: an interview with RAD Growers

January 4, 2016

Wow what a year… Thank You!

December 23, 2015

Making: Easy Summer Holiday Bread

December 21, 2015

The Weekly Round Up

December 18, 2015

Plants as Paintbox – Natural Dyeing basics

December 16, 2015

All Good Cheese is Wild and Free

December 14, 2015

The Weekly Round Up

December 11, 2015

DIY Trellis Ideas for Beans + Peas (and how they’re different)

December 7, 2015

From Bare Ground to Surplus Vegetables: Permaculture Renting

December 2, 2015

Gleaning as Community Support + Strategy

November 30, 2015

The Weekly Round Up

November 27, 2015

Stingless Bees on the Rooftop

November 25, 2015

Mushroom Cultivation: Making Grain Spawn

November 23, 2015

How to Convince your School to Get a Goat

November 18, 2015

Making Starter Strips for your Warré Hive Top Bars

November 16, 2015

The Weekly Round Up

November 13, 2015

Join the Wild Pollinator Count: November 15 – 22

November 11, 2015

Permaculture Design Process 2: Making a Base Map

November 9, 2015

How to Render Animal Fat: Making Lard and Tallow

November 6, 2015

Growing Super Microgreens in Garden Beds

November 2, 2015

The Mulberry as Placemaker + Community Resource

October 30, 2015

Natural Beekeeping: Installing a new Warré Apiary at Buena Vista Farm

October 28, 2015

Permaculture Design Process 1: Writing a Goal Statement

October 26, 2015

Natural Beekeeping: Catching our first Swarm

October 23, 2015

Our Natural Building Course: What you’ll learn

October 21, 2015

Sharing the Harvest: Kiama’s first Crop and Swap

October 19, 2015

Natural Beekeeping article in Organic Gardener Magazine

October 15, 2015

Installing Native Bees + Making Insect Hotels

October 12, 2015

Pickled Fennel Agrodolche: Storing the Season

October 9, 2015

Mushroom Cultivation: Pasteurising Bulk Substrate for Buckets of Shrooms

October 6, 2015

Micro-farming on Rented Land: Curtis Stone Interview

October 2, 2015

Starting out the Biointensive Beds at Buena Vista Farm

September 29, 2015

Natural Beekeeping: Tips for catching a swarm

September 28, 2015

Good Book: Dark Emu – rethinking Indigenous Australian Agriculture

September 25, 2015

How to Build or Renovate a Worm Farm

September 23, 2015

How to Build a Microbat Box

September 21, 2015

Growing + Making Cascara: Coffee Berry tea

September 18, 2015

Announcing our Summer Permaculture Design Certificate

September 16, 2015

Grow Food Not Lawns: Completing our Garden Beds

September 14, 2015

Rambling: Kiama Coast Walk

September 11, 2015

Announcing: Urban Farming Masterclasses in Sydney + Melbourne

September 9, 2015

Permaculture Design: The Patch From Scratch, Sydney

September 7, 2015

Natural Beekeeping: Selecting a Site for Your New Apiary

September 4, 2015

Market Garden Training this Spring

September 2, 2015

Spring is Here at the 107 Rooftop Garden

September 1, 2015

5 Bush Tucker Plants for Your Small Garden

August 31, 2015

Next 107 Rooftop Garden Day: Worm Towers + Friends

August 25, 2015

Left-Over Porridge Bread + other Porridge Ideas

August 17, 2015

Permaculture Futures: Cass Amundsen

August 10, 2015

How to Make Garden Beds from Scrap Timber

August 7, 2015

How to Get Growing This Spring

August 5, 2015

Making a Nature Drawer: to help kids explore their world

August 3, 2015

Morning Chores at Autumn Farm

July 31, 2015

10 uses for your home-grown Beeswax

July 23, 2015

Making Your Own Fire Cider (Master Tonic)

July 20, 2015

Going the Whole Grain – Schnitzer Grain Mill Review

July 16, 2015

Permaculture Design Process with Dan Palmer: Woodend Example

July 13, 2015

Preparing a new Garden Bed with Double Digging

July 9, 2015

Thermal + Haybox cooking: new ways to use an old technique

July 6, 2015

First, Grow your Mushroom – DIY Pappardelle al Funghi

July 2, 2015

Home Time Travel Techniques: DIY Dried Fruit

June 29, 2015

Beginner Natural Beekeepers + Winter Reading

June 25, 2015

Making: Seed Balls: for getting things growing in unlikely places

June 22, 2015

Winter Harvest + Chores at the Rooftop Garden

June 18, 2015

Making: Easy Raisin Oatmeal Cookies

June 15, 2015

Design + Community: Photos from our Autumn Permaculture Design Course

June 11, 2015

Best Edible Plants for your Vertical Garden

June 8, 2015

All about our Winter Permaculture Design Course

June 4, 2015

107 Rooftop Gardening Day: June: seedballs + more

June 2, 2015

Design Basics: Mapping the Sun on your Site

June 1, 2015

New Courses: Organic Gardening Basics + Small Space Orcharding

May 28, 2015

Visiting: Fork & Hoe Collective – Tasmania

May 25, 2015

Easy Kitchen Staples: Wholefood Vegetable Dips

May 18, 2015
Happy seedlings, growing in trays.

How to make Best Ever Seed Raising Mix

May 11, 2015

How To make a Mobile Micro Forest Garden – with Wicking Bed

May 4, 2015

Announcing: Advanced Permaculture with David Holmgren

April 30, 2015

Making an Upside Down Fire – the Tasmanian Edition

April 27, 2015

Seed Raising Mix: 107 Rooftop Gardening Day: May 2nd

April 23, 2015

Happy Fish, Happy Harvest: Matt’s Aquaponics Adventures

April 20, 2015

How to make Passata

April 7, 2015

Foraging Ice Cream Beans – Inga edulis

April 2, 2015

Happy Earth’s Urban Food Forest in Unanderra – it’s grown!

March 23, 2015

A Year at Otter Farm: Book Review

March 12, 2015

Hanging Green Tomatoes Upside Down to Ripen

March 4, 2015

Stale Bread to the rescue! 5 great Recipes

March 2, 2015

Going Against The Flow: Is The Flow Hive a Good Idea?

February 26, 2015

Designing for life at our first Rooftop Garden PDC

February 23, 2015

Storing the Season: Drying Summer Medicinal Herbs

February 19, 2015

Glow in the Dark Mushrooms (Omphalotus nidiformis)

February 16, 2015

Rambling: Barren Grounds, NSW

February 12, 2015

Dr Vandana Shiva in Sydney on 20th of February

February 10, 2015

Joel Salatin Webinars! Now we’re talking

February 9, 2015

Visiting: Marita’s small-scale Mushroom Enterprise

February 5, 2015

Making: a Crostata for the Season (Rustic Fruit Tart)

February 2, 2015

Visiting: Old Mill Road Farm

January 29, 2015

Collecting Rainwater in the City (and maybe even drinking it)

January 26, 2015

Foraging Seaweed for Home & Garden Use

January 22, 2015

Making a DIY Clip-Together Bathtub Aquaponics System

January 19, 2015

Weeds in the Garden: What we pull, what we leave, and why

January 15, 2015

Permaculture Futures: Brave New Eco

January 5, 2015

4 Ferments to Make This Summer

January 1, 2015

Natural Building: 6 Useful Articles to Read These Holidays

December 29, 2014

Our 12 Favourite Posts – it’s been Quite a Year

December 24, 2014

How to Make Olive Oil Crackers (so darn fine)

December 22, 2014

This is What Gratitude Looks Like

December 18, 2014

Drill-powered Microfarming: Slow Tools for Humanity

December 15, 2014

Foraging: Beaded Samphire (Glasswort)

December 11, 2014

How to String up your Climbing Tomatoes – Two Methods

December 7, 2014

The Joel Salatin Effect in Australia

December 3, 2014

Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation: Book Review

December 1, 2014

Late Spring Foraging: Dianella + Mulberries

November 27, 2014

Growing New Food Leaders: Callout

November 25, 2014

The Gift Tree: How to Slow Down Christmas

November 24, 2014

Planting Day at 107 Rooftop Garden

November 18, 2014

Free Talk by The Free Food Family: Kiama, 18th Nov

November 15, 2014

A Pocket full of Seeds

November 14, 2014

It’s All Gotta Go

November 13, 2014

Food System Futures: Ooooby, Sydney

November 10, 2014

Visiting: The Farm at Byron Bay

November 3, 2014

Spring Greens at Allsun Farm

October 31, 2014

5 really scrummy Things To Do with Berries this Summer

October 27, 2014

Mushrooms, Labneh + Cardboard Telescopes

October 23, 2014

Visiting: Autumn Farm, Bega

October 13, 2014

Photos: Our Spring Intro to Market Gardening course

October 9, 2014

Visiting: Gabe’s small-scale mushroom startup

October 7, 2014

Getting that Soil Up Top

September 30, 2014

Making: Brydie’s Sneaky Sourdough (easy Low Yeast Bread)

September 29, 2014

Join us for Soil Up Top day: Sat 27th Sept

September 24, 2014

107 Rooftop Garden Build: The Gabions

September 23, 2014

September to September

September 19, 2014

Help Us Build the Best Rooftop Garden Ever?

September 17, 2014

How to grow the Best Ever Tomatoes

September 15, 2014

Bean Tipi Seeds – Who Wants Some?

September 10, 2014

Visiting: Peter’s off-grid Homestead, Kangaroo Valley

September 4, 2014

The Price We Pay

September 3, 2014

Our 5 Favourite Tomato Varieties

September 1, 2014

The Weekday Farmers Market as Community Activator

August 27, 2014

Gary’s Bucket Culture: Mushroom Cultivation Stories

August 25, 2014

Time is All We Have

August 22, 2014

In which We Get Planting…

August 18, 2014

Would you like to win a Patch from Scratch?

August 13, 2014

Visiting Kangaroo Valley Permaculture

August 11, 2014

A wanderer’s guide to Iluka

August 8, 2014

Trying out the Hungry bin Wormfarm

August 6, 2014

Green Day Out: August 23rd in Balmain

August 5, 2014

Foraging Greens for our Ricotta + Weed Cannelloni

August 4, 2014

The many delights of Fresh Turmeric

August 1, 2014

The 2015 Permaculture Calendar is go!

July 30, 2014

Permaculture Futures: Green Up Top

July 28, 2014

Madeira Vine: an ironic Harvest

July 25, 2014

Snowy times at Tim’s Warre Apiary

July 23, 2014

Help us build The Open Food Network!

July 22, 2014

Our 5 Fave Market Gardening tools: Allsun Farm

July 21, 2014

What we learned this week: Amazonian Fungi + Gummy Pigs

July 18, 2014

A Fab day of Fermenting (and a Kimchi recipe)

July 16, 2014

Resources for new foragers

July 7, 2014

SE Permaculture Convergence this August…

July 4, 2014

So here we are…

July 2, 2014

DIY Mushroom Cultivation: The Culture

June 30, 2014

Book Review: ‘Possum Living – How To Live Well Without a Job and (Almost) No Money’

June 25, 2014

David Holmgren + Nicole Foss speaking in Sydney this Friday Night!

June 24, 2014

Experiments in Colour: DIY Plant Dyes

June 23, 2014

Permaculture futures: Urban GreenSpace

June 20, 2014

Let there be Mud: the Basics of Natural Building

June 18, 2014

Community Supported Agriculture at Transition Farm, VIC

June 16, 2014

Strategies for a Changing Economy – Survive and Thrive

June 13, 2014

Farming Edible Insects (Hello, Zero-footprint Protein)

June 12, 2014

Keeping Stingless Bees in the City

June 10, 2014

Our favourite (Instagram) Farmers

June 4, 2014

Building a Portable Reciprocal Roundhouse Frame

June 2, 2014

Planthunter interview with Nick Ritar

May 29, 2014

Permaculture futures: Seed Harvest Spoon

May 28, 2014

The Pedal People

May 26, 2014

Time Banking with Onion River Exchange

May 23, 2014

Foraging: Warrigal Greens

May 21, 2014

5 Great Fish Options For Your Backyard Aquaponics System

May 19, 2014

Inhabit: great looking Permaculture doco Kickstarter

May 16, 2014

Good Dirt and Veggie Gardening at Buena Vista Farm

May 14, 2014

Volunteer position available at Common2Us

May 13, 2014

5 fave organic market gardening tools: Michael Hewins

May 12, 2014

Exploring the new Hood

May 10, 2014

Autumn PDC photos: design, eggplants and more design…

May 8, 2014

David Holmgren on tree crops

May 4, 2014

Forward Ho…

May 3, 2014

Permaculture Teacher Training Scholarship!

May 2, 2014

Notes from the CSG blockades

May 1, 2014

Autumn chores: compost, ducks and beans…

April 30, 2014

Making Water Kefir (how to get your household hooked on probiotic soda)

April 28, 2014

Making Biltong for the first time

April 27, 2014

Winter Greens: what to plant right now

April 26, 2014

All of Summer is now stored…

April 23, 2014

Making a Bathroom Mushroom House (the good kind)

April 22, 2014

Announcing: Permaculture Teacher Training this August

April 21, 2014

Windowsill Farming with Microgreens

April 14, 2014

‘Oaks Organics’ Keyline Farm field trip: May 4th

April 13, 2014

Magic Beans

April 10, 2014

Spencer Cocoa: Chocolate with an ethical Center

April 8, 2014

Five of our favourite Plant Databases

April 7, 2014

How to plant a tree, Milkwood style

April 4, 2014

Want extra Vitamin D? Place your shiitake mushrooms in sunlight…

March 31, 2014

Bean Tipi: the harvest

March 28, 2014

Pip Magazine is live – get your permaculture on

March 26, 2014

How to make Wild Fermented Young Country Wine (it’s easy)

March 24, 2014

Cropfest: celebrating the wonky veg: Sydney, March 28

March 22, 2014

Home-grown Shiitake Logs: harvest time

March 21, 2014

Visiting The Agrarian Kitchen in New Norfolk, Tasmania

March 19, 2014

How to: test your garden soil’s pH, and balance it for a better veggie harvest

March 17, 2014

Announcing: David Holmgren & our Winter PDC

March 14, 2014

How to go Mushroom Foraging this Autumn (if you live near Sydney)

March 12, 2014

Visiting Buena Vista Farm

March 10, 2014

After the rain…

March 7, 2014

Summer is DONE (but our garden is not)

March 4, 2014

Sandor Katz in Hobart: Workshop photos

March 3, 2014

Visiting a hillside Backyard Permaculture in Hobart…

February 23, 2014

Country wine, veggies everywhere and tempeh Sandor…

February 11, 2014

Solar Cooking: Blackberry Muffins & Our Fail-Safe Basic Cake Mix

February 4, 2014

Snacks for Salty Sea Dogs: Foraging Pigface

January 30, 2014

Making a DIY Earthen Floor: two methods

January 28, 2014

Photos from our Passata Day

January 27, 2014

Check out this Farm Gate Raw Milk Dispenser

January 24, 2014

Meet the Makers: fermenting for Sandor Katz

January 22, 2014

Aquaponics: A Brief History of This Integrated Fish & Veggies System

January 20, 2014

Apple and Juniper Kraut + Fermented Tomato Salsa

January 17, 2014

Muscovy Ducks: A Great Homesteading Breed

January 14, 2014

We’re holding a Passata Day!

January 10, 2014

4 Free Workshops at the MCA in Sydney

January 8, 2014

How to: Make Spore Prints

January 6, 2014

We went to find a Willow Tree

January 3, 2014

Top Milkwood posts of 2013

January 1, 2014

The Ethics of Almost

December 23, 2013

Permaculture Playing Cards

December 18, 2013

Harvest Cafe: paddock to plate, for real

December 17, 2013

Bean Tipi Rising

December 12, 2013

You are a superorganism (and I can prove it)

December 9, 2013

We’re in Organic Gardener Mag!

December 6, 2013

Wagtail Urban Farm, Adelaide: Grower Profile

December 4, 2013

20 Gift ideas for a Planet-Friendly Christmas

December 3, 2013

Who’s coming Fermenting with Sandor Katz?

December 2, 2013

3 great Urban Permaculture Books

November 30, 2013

Making Salt Dough Christmas Decorations

November 28, 2013

Intro to Urban Rainwater Harvesting

November 25, 2013

Back to our Roots: Art + Milkwood this Summer

November 19, 2013

Spring Permaculture Design Course wrap…

November 17, 2013

Tarkine Fundraiser in Sydney next Wednesday

November 15, 2013

5 Ideas to Kickstart Your Urban Permaculture

November 11, 2013

Building our Greenhouse

November 8, 2013

Footpath gardening: new resources for Sydney

November 7, 2013

Urban Permaculture Design Course upcoming…

November 6, 2013

Kombucha, round one

November 5, 2013

Sunset Soccer

November 1, 2013

Preserving Strawberries: hello disaster, meet success

October 28, 2013

Urban Stingless Beehive: harvesting and splitting

October 18, 2013

At this time of year…

October 14, 2013

Food Security. and Free Stickers…

October 11, 2013

Workshop Schedule for the Permaculture Piazza (and a giveaway)

October 9, 2013

To Vacola or not to Vacola?

October 8, 2013

Upcoming: Mushroom Cultivation Workshop

October 3, 2013