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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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How To Make a Mushroom Spore Print – a DIY Guide

April 23, 2025
National pickler cucumbers, horseradish leaves, black currant leaves in a basket on a wooden table

The Progressive Pickle Process – a Love Story

April 7, 2025

Observe and Interact: ideas for Permaculture Living

March 17, 2025

Companion Planting with Permaculture: Cultivating Relationship with Your Garden

February 19, 2025
Two bamboo containers with fruiting oyster mushrooms, being held by a woman infront of a bamboo wall

Grow Mushrooms – in Bamboo! Options for low-waste Mushroom Cultivation

January 27, 2025
Milkwood holiday reading 2024

Permaculture Holiday Reads for 2025

December 16, 2024
Veggie Gardening Guide on iPad and iPhone

NEW: our free Beginner’s Guide to Veggie Gardening

August 19, 2024

Permaculture Living – a Free Resources Roundup

July 1, 2024

How to Compost Dog Poop – & Other Pet Waste Too

February 20, 2024

Delicious Dahlias – Yep, Dahlias Are Edible!

January 23, 2024

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

August 3, 2023

What Is Permaculture?

July 4, 2023

DIY Mushroom Cardboard Spawn: an Easy Mushroom Cloning Technique

June 19, 2023
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

June 6, 2023
Get started with seed saving

Milkwood’s Top 10 Strategies for Household Resilience

May 22, 2023

‘Active Hope is a Practice’ – a conversation

May 2, 2023

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.

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

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
Kirsten Bradley & Fiona Weir sharing a joyful meal by a campfire at Kiama beach. Image from a post on sustainable holiday projects.

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
a bunch of dandelion plants with roots, on a wooden bench

Learn 5 Wild & Useful Plants Near You

February 3, 2020

Video: Digging into the 12 Permaculture Principles

January 28, 2020
Seedlings sprouting from eggshells with tops removed, placed in an egg carton on a windowsill, illustrating early growth at the two-leaf stage, in a blog post about setting and nurturing goals in sustainable living.

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

Hang your bacon high…

October 2, 2013

Milkwood at Gardening Australia Live

October 1, 2013

Three fold-up Farmstand ideas

September 30, 2013

Crop planning with post-it notes. And moving that Greenhouse…

September 27, 2013

The Talking Cookbook of Eveleigh Markets

September 25, 2013

Here comes the Summer of Permaculture…

September 23, 2013

Learning the way of the Sausage

September 20, 2013

Learn Organic Market Gardening basics with us!

September 18, 2013

Roundhouse build: making a Living Roof

September 16, 2013

There’s no such thing as waste, only stuff in the wrong place…

September 13, 2013

2014 Permaculture Calendar is Out! Would you like one?

September 10, 2013

Why Movable Greenhouses are a Great Idea

September 9, 2013

Insert optimistic metaphor for new life here

September 6, 2013

First Shiitake Harvest

September 2, 2013

Chlorophyll Powered Everything

August 30, 2013

Help make the ‘Just Food’ doco and score a Milkwood course voucher

August 28, 2013

Rooftop Chickens

August 26, 2013

Natural Beekeeping Q&A next weekend in Sydney

August 23, 2013

The Spare

August 20, 2013

Designing Like a Forest (we’re hooked)

August 12, 2013

Green manures, earth floors and the inaugural mushroom

August 9, 2013

Grower Profile: Michael Hewins, Milkwood Farm

August 5, 2013

What grows better in Soil Blocks?

July 31, 2013

New Allan Savory podcast & a free webinar

July 30, 2013

Milkwood in a (video) nutshell

July 29, 2013

Looks like this ‘mushrooms in a holey bucket’ idea is catching on…

July 26, 2013

Want to fast-track your future as an Organic Market Gardener this Spring?

July 25, 2013

Portable Urban Farming. For real.

July 24, 2013

Eating a pig we named, and bees, and fermentedness

July 20, 2013

Drawing the comb downwards (video)

July 17, 2013

Roundhouse build: making a Reciprocal Roof

July 15, 2013

The Upsides of Frost

July 12, 2013

Making a wood chip mushroom garden

July 10, 2013

‘This is Not a Doomsday Talk’: Allan Savory’s address to the Savory Institute International Conference

July 8, 2013

Forage Farming

July 5, 2013

Researching: solar-powered beeswax extractors

July 1, 2013

One Year Ago I was…

June 26, 2013

Holy Shit: a book review

June 24, 2013

David Holmgren resources giveaway

June 17, 2013

Winter at Milkwood Farm: Living roofs, Books and Honeycomb

June 14, 2013

Roundhouse build: foundations and walls

June 10, 2013

A peek inside a stingless beehive…

June 8, 2013

Get ready: we’re presenting Allan Savory in August

June 6, 2013

3 days at Polyface Farm

June 4, 2013

3 great Mags doing food with guts

June 2, 2013

New Market Garden internships!

May 29, 2013

Herdshare: strategies for sustenance

May 28, 2013

TEDx Carrot suitcase followup…

May 24, 2013

Researching: Dovecotes as wild nutrient collectors

May 21, 2013

Market Garden Overhaul (now with added garlic)

May 16, 2013

Roundhouse build update – the roof is on!

May 13, 2013

The central role of the Pikelet in slow living

May 9, 2013

A fearless day of swappery… the Seed Circus

May 6, 2013

Seed Circus: all the details

May 3, 2013

So long, Rose, and thanks for all the labneh…

May 1, 2013

Forest Garden Guilds

April 29, 2013

DIY mushroom cultivation posters

April 24, 2013

Upcoming: Our Urban PDC in Sydney: July 2013

April 23, 2013

Making the most of it: Blood Sausage

April 20, 2013

To town, with a suitcase full of carrots…

April 18, 2013

Steam Juicing and adventures in Appledom

April 16, 2013

Raising a home in four days flat at Milkwood Farm

April 13, 2013

Seed Circus: 5 May: Sydney

April 11, 2013

‘Catch and Store Energy’ – how we do it at Milkwood Farm

April 9, 2013

Establish the paths, and the orchard with follow…

April 7, 2013

Holding back the Doom with a big fat stick

April 5, 2013

Pig Tractor update: from Orchard to Market Garden

April 3, 2013

Felling your way to a healthier forest: Guest post

April 2, 2013

Introduction to Permaculture book

April 1, 2013

A visit to Melliodora with David Holmgren

March 30, 2013

Adventures in pressure canning

March 28, 2013

A DIY vertical garden

March 26, 2013

It’s Shrooming season!

March 24, 2013

Upcoming: Intro to Permaculture in Sydney in April

March 22, 2013

Recipes for Autumn goodness

March 20, 2013

Fox is 4

March 18, 2013

Checking the bees and hoping for honeyflows

March 15, 2013

Jam Session: Damson Plums

March 13, 2013

Making Biochar: Building Our First Dome School Biochar Stove

March 11, 2013

Cooking on a Rayburn Woodstove: Can You Give Us Your Tips?

March 9, 2013

Watershed Restoration: The Cutting Edge

March 7, 2013

Growing new growers in the Milkwood Market Garden

March 6, 2013

The Sun Hive: experimental Natural Beekeeping

March 5, 2013

Shed Love: The Power of a Simple, Bush-Pole Structure

March 4, 2013

Milkwood veg hits the Big Smoke

March 1, 2013

120 year old peaches

February 27, 2013

Building bee resilience in the face of changing climate patterns

February 26, 2013

Milkwood on the telly

February 25, 2013

Just don’t call it a Quiche, mate

February 24, 2013

And the Lettuce went kaBOOM

February 22, 2013

Blackberry season

February 20, 2013

Barter, Blood Orange Cordial and Cornersmith

February 18, 2013

Natural Building Course upcoming

February 16, 2013

The Bee People: free e-book

February 14, 2013

Integrated pest management at its most beautiful

February 13, 2013

Dave Jacke interview: designing like a forest in a changing climate

February 12, 2013

Allsun Farm in Organic Gardener Magazine

February 11, 2013

Midsummer Garden at Milkwood Farm

February 10, 2013

Family-Friendly Urban Aquaponics: Producing Fresh Veggies & Fish at Home

February 9, 2013

Making a Pig Tractor

February 8, 2013

Edible Forest Gardens author Dave Jacke is coming to Australia

February 6, 2013

Great opportunity to learn pastured pork + beef systems and get paid for it: Boxgum Grazing

February 6, 2013

Tomatoes. Everywhere.

February 5, 2013

Afristar Permaculture Posters

February 4, 2013

Milkwood is on Instagram

February 3, 2013

The Banana Octopus and the Kiama Show

February 2, 2013

Honeybee Democracy & The Sacred Bee: two great bee books

January 31, 2013

Potting a pathway to abundance

January 29, 2013

Summer Permaculture Design Course wrap-up

January 26, 2013

Urban Farming Guidebook: new resource

January 23, 2013

Egg mobile with added duck. Bring on the Muscovys

January 20, 2013

Our Tiny House makes the news

January 17, 2013

Pig update: the system is working!

January 15, 2013

Nursing carrots through a nutty Summer

January 13, 2013

Bee Friendly: A planting guide for European honeybees and Australian native pollinators

January 11, 2013

Humanure Cumquat Harvest

January 9, 2013

Making an Upside Down Fire

January 7, 2013

Joel Salatin NSW Masterclasses: the details

January 5, 2013

Enter the egg mobile (start with what you’ve got)

January 3, 2013

New models for awesome Community Supported Agricultures (CSAs)

January 1, 2013

Zucchini Flowers and general whackery

December 29, 2012

12 Months of Milkwood

December 26, 2012

Caga Tió, please don’t poo sardines this Christmas

December 24, 2012

Permaculture: a Rhymer’s Manual (and a barn dance)

December 23, 2012

Learning to be ethical omnivores

December 21, 2012

A weekend at the Tiny House

December 17, 2012

The art of home-made Bacon

December 15, 2012

Erosion restoration design, one year on

December 13, 2012

Radish posies, seedballs, and what comes next

December 10, 2012

Building our first roundhouse

December 8, 2012

Latest PDC student designs for urban and rural permacultures

December 6, 2012

Bring on Tomato season (and what we’re doing differently this year)

December 4, 2012

Recipes from Rose: the Best Potato Salad Ever + the House Cookie Mix

December 2, 2012

Micro Forest Garden – installation

November 30, 2012

Quilt box design mod for the Warré hives

November 28, 2012

Candy stripe beets, new designers and further ferment

November 26, 2012

Cafeponics: A Darwin Cafe’s Bathtub Aquaponics System

November 24, 2012

Training the piglets about 2-strand electric fence

November 22, 2012

Earthbag Dome Completo

November 20, 2012

Pumpkin prepping, firedance and the inaugural currant

November 18, 2012

The wisdom of the radish (why we eat the way we do)

November 16, 2012

Why Urban Forest Gardens are a great idea

November 14, 2012

Pea Party

November 12, 2012

Farm Journal: Oysters, Mulch, Broadbeans & Borage flowers

November 11, 2012

Growing Pearl Oyster Mushrooms in bags

November 9, 2012

Costa and his Ladies

November 8, 2012

Up-cycled door for the Earthbag Dome

November 7, 2012

Good book: Crop Planning for Organic Vegetable Growers

November 6, 2012

A radish can make you smile

November 5, 2012

Dinosaur stomps in the kitchen garden

November 4, 2012

Return of the Pigs, and Floyd

November 3, 2012

Zuni bowl, one year on…

November 2, 2012

Cima di Rapa

November 1, 2012

Moving the Pigs at Polyface Farm

October 31, 2012

Warré comb at the Spring hive check

October 30, 2012

The Kraut is where it’s at

October 29, 2012

Hitting 100% self sufficiency in salad greens

October 28, 2012

Making fresh Reishi mushroom tea

October 26, 2012

What happens at a Milkwood Permaculture Design Course?

October 24, 2012

Designing a MicroForest Garden

October 22, 2012

Farm journal: mushrooms, bacon & ladybirds

October 21, 2012

It’s the birthright of bees to build comb

October 20, 2012

Picking silverbeet thinnings as microgreens

October 18, 2012

Building a Biological DIY Greywater System (With No Reedbeds)

October 16, 2012

When in doubt, Sauerkraut

October 14, 2012

Charlie’s latest Aquaponics systems (and a course next weekend)

October 12, 2012

Souping up the worm farm

October 10, 2012

PDC Learning Outcomes – free download

October 6, 2012

Learning to grow and digging it all in

October 4, 2012

Impossible delicious: Sourdough Spelt Croissants

October 2, 2012

Upcoming Permaculture Design Certificate at Milkwood Farm

October 1, 2012

Hericium coralloides (coral tooth) mushrooms

September 30, 2012

Rockin the row cover – protecting spring crops

September 28, 2012

Milkwood wins Green Lifestyle award

September 26, 2012

A muster of market gardeners…

September 24, 2012

DIY Vertical Aquaponics on the patio

September 22, 2012

Catching a swarm in a Warré hive

September 20, 2012

Seed Freedom: The Seed Savers in conversation with Costa

September 19, 2012

Seed Saving 101 Workshop: Occupying the Seed

September 18, 2012

EcoPOP – cooling Sydney’s streets…

September 15, 2012

Making cold frames from glass doors

September 13, 2012

A weekend of serious backyard veggies…

September 11, 2012

Earthbag dome: getting it done…

September 9, 2012

Allsun Farm and Us, 2009 – 2012

September 7, 2012

Permaculture Calendar 2013 is here…

September 6, 2012

Making a Caterpillar Necklace

September 4, 2012

Tiny house from the outside

September 2, 2012

Cultivating soil, food and life with a ‘Gundaroo Tiller’ broadfork

August 30, 2012

Forest Gardens, Hugelkultur and cold-climate Coconuts

August 28, 2012

How to Breed slow-to-bolt Coriander for your climate

August 26, 2012

Upcoming: Intro to Organic Market Gardening: 22-23 Sept

August 25, 2012

Stop-gap fruit tree planting: bring on the cultivated beds

August 24, 2012

Planning a Wall of Summer with scarlet runner beans

August 22, 2012

Breaking new ground in the market garden

August 20, 2012

We’re in the Tinyhouse. And it is awesome.

August 19, 2012

Next round of Milkwood Market Garden internship apps…

August 18, 2012

Building a Jenkins-style Lovable Loo for the Tinyhouse

August 17, 2012

Wild Weed Paper by Wild Stories

August 15, 2012

How not to get eaten by Rats, if you’re a Seedling

August 13, 2012
Growing mushrooms in a laundry basket outdoors

Growing mushrooms in a laundry basket

August 12, 2012

Creating an Inside-Outside Woodbox for a Tiny House

August 10, 2012

Pig boards: the pastured pig fancier’s best friend

August 8, 2012

Announcing our Forest Garden & Silviculture internships

August 7, 2012

Azolla (water fern) – a protein-rich animal feed

August 6, 2012

Sunday…

August 5, 2012

Soil building toolkit: Comfrey

August 3, 2012

Solar Power at Milkwood Farm, Version Two

August 1, 2012

New beginnings in the Milkwood market garden

July 30, 2012

Greenhorns stickers and badges and kerchiefs and…

July 29, 2012

New book: ‘Tiny Homes, Simple Shelter’ by Lloyd Kahn

July 27, 2012

Meeting The Seed Savers, Jude + Michel Fanton

July 25, 2012

Floyd’s ‘crop circle’ aquaponics system

July 23, 2012

Tinyhouse build: we’re nearly there…

July 22, 2012

New Book: Farm Anatomy, in all its splendour

July 20, 2012

Moving the Warré beehives

July 17, 2012

Intro to Organic Market Gardening at Milkwood Farm in September

July 17, 2012

Growing Oyster Mushrooms in a Bucket

July 16, 2012

Commumunicatecreative: Permaculture made graphic

July 14, 2012

The Greenhorns: New Book + Resources

July 12, 2012

Vertigation: Worm Juice Irrigation for Your Kitchen Garden

July 10, 2012

Talking Permaculture at Mudgee Field Days this Weekend

July 9, 2012

Making DIY steps down the side of the forest garden

July 8, 2012

Making Labneh (yoghurt cheese balls) with Nadia

July 6, 2012

Building a Yurt from Scratch: Resources

July 4, 2012

Upcoming Market Garden Masterclass at Allsun Farm

July 3, 2012

On-Farm Composting: the story so far…

July 2, 2012

Costa’s Verge Garden

June 30, 2012

Fancy 2 free tickets to Michael Pollan’s talk in Sydney?

June 28, 2012

Choosing heritage apple varieties for an edible forest garden

June 26, 2012

Farmstead Meatsmith: Meat Cookery (an e-book)

June 24, 2012

DIY mushroom housing: research

June 22, 2012

Urine, Peak Phosphorous and on-farm Nutrient Cycling

June 20, 2012

Aquaponics Workshops in Sydney: aiming to truly close the loop

June 18, 2012

Designing the Warré Apiary at Milkwood Farm

June 17, 2012

Replenishing the Market Garden with Winter green manures

June 15, 2012

Meanwhile, in the Gravity Chicken Run…

June 13, 2012

New Market Garden Internships at Milkwood Farm

June 11, 2012

Aquaponics as Art

June 8, 2012

Prepping ground with permaculture pigs

June 4, 2012

Reciprocal Roof Research

June 2, 2012

A whole street of Verge Gardens!

May 31, 2012

Autumn Urban Forest Gardeners…

May 29, 2012

Permaculture with a Mycological Twist

May 23, 2012

Building an earthbag wicking bed garden…

May 20, 2012

Interview with Nick Ritar about Glass Gem Corn

May 18, 2012

Latest student urban permaculture designs

May 16, 2012

Pink Oyster Mushrooms (Happy Mothers Day!)

May 14, 2012

Glass Gem Corn, and other heirloom jewels of the corn cabinet…

May 12, 2012

How to romance your feijoa

May 9, 2012

Why I’m not down with the whole zombie apocalypse thing

May 6, 2012

Easy Mushroom Foraging: Slippery Jack (Suillus granulatus)

May 4, 2012

International Permaculture Day 2012

May 2, 2012

In-kitchen worm farm design

April 28, 2012

Mushroom Cultivation: Good books for Aussies

April 26, 2012

Watershed Restoration: Constructing a Media Luna

April 24, 2012

A weekend of chooks, raw milk and urban agriculture

April 22, 2012

Celebrating the Summer that was, and the Winter to come

April 20, 2012

Egg Mobiles I Have Loved…

April 18, 2012

The dark and the light: eating different honeycombs as part of natural beekeeping

April 15, 2012

Dave and Phoebe’s DIY Yurt

April 12, 2012

Talking tiny houses with the Telegraph

April 10, 2012

Milkwood Easter: first of the carrots, last of the eggs

April 7, 2012

Generosity as a strategy for survival

April 5, 2012

Rendering our Earthbag dome… first coat (bring on the cow poo)

April 3, 2012

Soil blocks: how to transplant seedlings without going potty

April 1, 2012

Growing Shiitake Mushrooms on Sawdust Spawn

March 30, 2012

In which the long-nurtured fig cuttings bear fruit…

March 28, 2012

New press for crushing wild honeycomb

March 26, 2012

String em up – storing onions

March 24, 2012

Introducing Hannah Moloney, Actavista

March 23, 2012

Autumn Natural Beekeeping Course… Honey Harvest Time!

March 21, 2012

The Art of Preserving Food When You Don’t Have a Fridge

March 20, 2012

Applied Watershed Restoration: choosing some sites

March 19, 2012

Rent-a-Goat weed control: coming to a verge near you…

March 17, 2012

PDC Party… make your own fun

March 15, 2012

Milk-crate farming in the city

March 13, 2012

Quick walk through garden with small boy…

March 10, 2012

Earthship Sydney Talk Resources

March 8, 2012

Awesome Permaculture Women: International Womens Day…

March 8, 2012

OMG! We’ve harvested a Tonne!

March 6, 2012

Visiting Happy Earth, a kick-ass suburban food forest garden…

March 3, 2012

DIY Mulch Pit Greywater System

February 29, 2012

Hailstorms and Tomatoes don’t mix…

February 24, 2012

Milkwood Farm Field Day: 1 April 2012

February 22, 2012

Drying Apple, Pear and Nashi

February 20, 2012

Attack of the Wolf Mountain Chickens

February 18, 2012

Radical Ferment: Beetroot and Radish Kimchi

February 16, 2012

Part-Time PDC in Sydney starts 17th March

February 15, 2012

Our first year of potato growing…

February 14, 2012

Craig Sponholtz talks watershed restoration (video)

February 12, 2012

Ryan Gosling Goes Gardening…

February 11, 2012

The Bean Banjo, and other beany bits…

February 9, 2012

Advanced Watershed Restoration, here we come…

February 6, 2012

The transformative power of Permablitz

February 6, 2012

Learning the way of the mycelium

February 3, 2012

Ahoy, zuni bowl ahead, me maties…

February 1, 2012

2 weeks in the life of a Permaculture Design student (video)

January 30, 2012

A quick scan of our Permaculture Bookshelf

January 29, 2012

There’s always a first time for Passata…

January 27, 2012

Upcoming Earthship Talk with Michael Reynolds in Sydney!

January 25, 2012

In which the House Dam fills but does not fail – Huzzah!

January 23, 2012

Siberian Pea Tree seeds, discovered!

January 21, 2012

Urban PDC: strawberries, soil and systems thinking

January 20, 2012

How to harvest Honey from Natural Comb

January 19, 2012

Milkwood Market Garden: the first 5 months

January 15, 2012

Two weeks of Urban Permaculture, in pictures…

January 13, 2012

PERMABLITZ info night: 16th Jan: Sydney

January 9, 2012

On the topography of honeycomb…

January 6, 2012

Done is the Engine of More: can this apply to farming?

December 28, 2011

Milkwood Forest Garden: zero to now

December 24, 2011

Natural Beekeeping Resources: best books

December 21, 2011

Milkwood: 2011 in review

December 19, 2011

New Organizer’s Guides from Permablitz

December 17, 2011

Milkwood Chromatograms: Year 1

December 15, 2011

Happy Earth’s ‘Grow Local’ Illawarra Edible Garden Guide

December 13, 2011

The week that was: broadbeans, honeycomb, and a touch of garlic

December 11, 2011

Eliot Coleman’s ‘Fertile Dozen’: Recommended reading for organic growers

December 9, 2011

Zuni bowls full of water, and farewelling interns

December 7, 2011

Urban Vigilante Gardens, Pothole Gardens, and so on…

December 5, 2011

Interview with Activista Hannah Moloney from ActionAid

December 3, 2011

Milkwood Farm’s first ever Warré Honey Harvest

December 1, 2011

Humanure Artists with Grunt: Cloacina

November 29, 2011

Wheelie Bin Trailers for Humanure…

November 25, 2011

A Way Through the Woods: Designing the Paths in our Forest Garden

November 22, 2011

Upcoming workshop: DIY Aquaponics systems: Sydney 17-18 Dec

November 21, 2011

Secret Valley Adventures on a Hot Afternoon

November 20, 2011

Gardening like a Forest: podcast with Dave Jacke

November 18, 2011

Tick Tock, it’s Tomato a-clock!

November 16, 2011

Giving the gift of knowledge: Milkwood gift certificates

November 14, 2011

A collection of starlings is called a Murmuration

November 12, 2011

Rose the Permaculture Chef, and other miracles…

November 9, 2011

P-culture. Ya dig?

November 7, 2011

Soil Chromatography with Eugenio Gras

November 6, 2011

Making a Zuni Bowl: Let the Water do the Work

November 4, 2011

Produce No Waste: Bustan Qaraaqa’s bottle walls

November 2, 2011

Nick Ritar’s TEDx Canberra Talk: Two things you can do every day to save the world

October 31, 2011

Pasture Cropping Workshop Debrief

October 29, 2011

Rocket Stove Water Heater Redux

October 28, 2011

Funky Urban Permaculture Designs by VEG

October 26, 2011

Top tank overflow: design + implementation

October 24, 2011

Forest Garden blooming

October 22, 2011

Holistic Management at Milkwood

October 20, 2011

Eating out of the garden – finally!

October 19, 2011

Summer/Autumn 2012 Permaculture Internships: Open Call

October 17, 2011

Vertical Garden meets Aquaponics

October 15, 2011

Milkwood Apiary Design Brainstorm

October 13, 2011

Folks, This Aint Normal: Joel Salatin: Book Review

October 11, 2011

Permaculture cats in the woolshed

October 10, 2011

Meet our new Milkwood Farm Interns

October 8, 2011

Why Joel Salatin is so excited by Pasture Cropping

October 6, 2011

Mud, Glorious Mud: Rendering the Tinyhouse

October 4, 2011

Food Forest Garden: Books and Resources

October 1, 2011

Why Rooftop Farms are where it’s at

September 28, 2011

Warré Beehive: Spring Inspection at Belinda’s Urban Apiary

September 26, 2011

How to: create a Planting Calendar, Allsun style

September 24, 2011

Milkwood Social: Film Night: Vanishing of the Bees

September 22, 2011

Learning how to start a Market Garden

September 20, 2011

New Community Gardens Poster (free download)

September 16, 2011

Milkwood Forest Garden Plantathon!

September 14, 2011

Seed Balls: how to grow trees without really trying

September 12, 2011

Regenerative small-scale grain growing

September 10, 2011

Pay the farmer, or pay the doctor. Your choice.

September 8, 2011

The organic market garden has begun!

September 6, 2011

Sydney’s best kept secret permaculture garden

September 4, 2011

Our tinyhouse deadline: just when is the start of spring, anyway?

September 2, 2011

Joel Salatin Workshop Notes

August 31, 2011

Getting serious about Seed Balls

August 29, 2011

Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture: Book Review

August 27, 2011

Beginning with broad beans, as every adventure should…

August 24, 2011

Regarding the Lexicon of Sustainability project

August 22, 2011

Tinyhouse build: our not-quite non-toxic house

August 20, 2011

Time to borrow some pigs…

August 18, 2011

Permaculture Pioneers: Book review

August 16, 2011

How to bury your dog

August 14, 2011

S is for sheet mulching (and spring)

August 12, 2011

Tinyhouse build: the story of the 5 dollar door

August 10, 2011

Joel Salatin in Jamberoo

August 8, 2011

Growing Annual Vegetables CD Rom: review

August 5, 2011

Our rocket stove water heater: 2.5 years on

August 3, 2011

The Yeomans Project: Where Art & Farming Meet

August 1, 2011

Our forest garden design: the future is forested and foodlike

July 29, 2011

Cross stitch permaculture

July 27, 2011

Tinyhouse build: we WILL be in by Spring

July 25, 2011

The Greenhorns and Joel Salatin in Gerringong

July 22, 2011

Making a shiitake mushroom log

July 20, 2011

Food forest design time

July 18, 2011

PDC week 3: pattern and design

July 15, 2011

Shifting to community-scale food thinking

July 13, 2011

Allan Savory in the outback

July 11, 2011

Creating a DIY Remote Area Internet Connection at Milkwood Farm

July 8, 2011

High-rise chicken feeding stations

July 6, 2011

A Forest Garden Year: DVD review

July 4, 2011

Talking Regenerative Agriculture in Mudgee

July 1, 2011

Good night, bees. Sleep tight till spring…

June 29, 2011

Joel Salatin: how to chose farmland

June 27, 2011

Aquaponics at Kimbriki EcoHouse

June 24, 2011

PDC week 2: David Holmgren’s Permaculture Principles

June 22, 2011

A soggy but scintillating permablitz

June 20, 2011

Joel Salatin: debt-free farming for beginners

June 16, 2011

DIY Rocket Stove Technology: A Round-Up of Low-Energy Cooking Options

June 14, 2011

Spring 2011 Internships: Open Call

June 8, 2011

RawBale Chicken House Design

June 7, 2011

Come to our annual Sydney Permablitz!

June 6, 2011

Planning our organic market garden

June 3, 2011

Permaculture School Garden: Cringila Public School

June 1, 2011

Attack of the Milkwood video archive

May 30, 2011

Kids in the Garden: our pick of School Garden books

May 27, 2011

DIY EarthBag Dome: building the foundations

May 25, 2011

Joel Salatin returns to Australia

May 23, 2011

Survivalism is the new black

May 20, 2011

Gravity Chicken Run Design

May 18, 2011

DIY Aquaponics Designs

May 16, 2011

David Holmgren in Sydney

May 13, 2011

The walls they rise

May 11, 2011

How to make a wicking box (mini wicking bed)

May 9, 2011

Rock Science: building our gabion wall

May 6, 2011

Urban Beekeeping: checking a Warré hive

May 4, 2011

Earthbag dome, happy home

May 2, 2011

End of the Season and an Open Day

April 27, 2011

Araucanas and Rabbit Stew

April 21, 2011

Permaculture at Kiama Public School

April 20, 2011

Compost toilet specifics: the bins

April 18, 2011

Winter Workshop: Feed your Garden

April 14, 2011

Design for Life: the Food Forest DVD

April 13, 2011

How to Make a Mini Rocket Stove For Energy-Efficient Cooking

April 11, 2011

Winter Workshops: Grafting

April 8, 2011

National Permaculture Day is May 1st

April 6, 2011

Whole Pickled Green Tomatoes

April 4, 2011

Winter Workshops: Designing for Spring

April 1, 2011

What we’re reading: Monsanto + Mushrooms

March 30, 2011

Combining Two Warré Honeybee Colonies

March 28, 2011

Sydney Winter PDC with special guest David Holmgren

March 23, 2011

DIY urban bathtub aquaponics system

March 21, 2011

The saga of the middle dam

March 16, 2011

My land is your land: the Landshare concept

March 14, 2011

Visiting the Marrickville Food Forest

March 7, 2011

Gravity fed water for Milkwood Farm

February 28, 2011

Putting our honey where our mouth is: a lean year

February 21, 2011

Water Tank Comparisons for Clean Drinking Water

February 14, 2011

Crash-grazing the creekflat: an experiment

January 31, 2011

EarthBag Building Workshop at Milkwood Farm

January 17, 2011

May all your carrots grow long and straight: a week with Joel Salatin

December 20, 2010

Why pasture cropping is such a Big Deal

December 7, 2010

The basecamp kitchen garden explosion

November 30, 2010

The most lovable loo in the west

November 23, 2010

Bringing home the bees

November 16, 2010

How to make ferrocement garden beds

November 8, 2010

BioFertilizer Recipe #2: Lime Sulphur (Caldo Sulfocalcico)

November 2, 2010

The way of the Bee: an intro to Natural Beekeeping

October 28, 2010

A Permaculture Kitchen Garden for LoveGrub

October 19, 2010

How to make a Worm Tower

October 12, 2010

Good Wood

September 21, 2010

Living close: strata title permaculture

September 14, 2010

BioFertilizer Recipe #1

September 7, 2010

Urban Permaculture Designers ahoy

August 31, 2010

The march of the yabbies

August 24, 2010

Bathtub Aquaponics in Alice Springs

August 17, 2010

Re-setting the spillways

August 10, 2010

Seven Thousand Oaks

July 27, 2010

The fire and the fury: Alexandria Permablitz

June 23, 2010

Autumn Harvest

May 26, 2010

FRESH movie screening: Sydney May 28th

May 13, 2010

How to Make a Wicking Bed

May 11, 2010

Milkwood Tinyhouse floorplan

May 3, 2010

Urban dispatches from the undergrowth

April 28, 2010

Holistic Management: Herbivores, Hats, and Hope

April 27, 2010

How to choose a chook

April 20, 2010

Milkwood Internships

April 17, 2010

Urban Permaculture Design Course

March 29, 2010

The Edible Urban: Part 2

March 23, 2010

Microcosms in Melbourne

March 5, 2010

Abundance in Drylands

February 14, 2010

CarriageWorks’ Kitchen Garden Project

February 1, 2010

The saga of the top dam

January 27, 2010

Seedballs: from Fukuoka to Green Guerillas

December 22, 2009

Introducing our TinyHouse

December 11, 2009

2010 Permaculture Diary + Calendar

November 24, 2009

The Edible Urban: Part 1

September 1, 2009

New Milkwood Permaculture website

August 24, 2009

Water and me. And you.

July 31, 2009

How To: build a Geodesic Chook Dome

July 27, 2009

Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands

July 19, 2009

The Rocket-Powered Shower

July 12, 2009

Rocket Mass Heaters: Ianto Evans and Leslie Jackson

July 8, 2009

Belated harvest

July 6, 2009

Better living through Permaculture

April 23, 2009

Basecamp Garden: plan for Summer

October 29, 2008

The Transition Handbook by Rob Hoskins

October 2, 2008

2009 Permaculture Calendar + Diary

October 1, 2008

Feral Fruit Mapping: Update

September 24, 2008

A suitable inheritance

September 18, 2008

Back steps, front steps

September 4, 2008

Autumn adventures

June 8, 2008

Vegie Garden: Autumn Report

March 10, 2008

Our first dam

February 15, 2008

Surveying the site from scratch

January 31, 2008

Milkwood – the water design

January 17, 2008

How to make Compost: Pt.3

December 29, 2007

Milkwood Timelapses: and so it begins…

December 1, 2007

How to make Compost: Pt.2

November 21, 2007

Earthworks, water and other fantastic fun

November 21, 2007

Carbon Farming Conference 07

November 21, 2007

How to make Compost: Pt.1

November 7, 2007

Baby birds in the Loquat tree

November 6, 2007

Sydney Permaculture course all done…

November 2, 2007

Solar Power! (albeit on a small scale)

November 1, 2007

How to: grow Figs from cuttings

October 7, 2007

The Power of Community: DVD Review

September 27, 2007

How To: identify that un-named plant

September 24, 2007

Back from the Brink by Peter Andrews

September 20, 2007

Upcoming: ITP courses are go!

September 17, 2007

How To: make a Feral Fruit Map

September 11, 2007

Useful Weeds at our Doorstep by Pat Collins

September 11, 2007

Video diary: Settling in

May 3, 2007

Review: Soil foodweb workshop…

April 17, 2007

Milkwood: Arrival

March 26, 2007

Post-permaculture design course debrief

December 20, 2006

Farmyard Farewell

December 18, 2006
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