Kirsten Bradley and Nick Ritar

Milkwood: Real Skills for Down to Earth Living

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Real skills for down-to-earth living

The skills that we learn bind our lives together. Do you want to learn how to grow your own vegetables? Or how to keep bees? How to forage for edible seaweed along the shoreline, or wild greens down by the stream? Maybe you’re curious about growing mushrooms or how to grow the perfect tomato.

We invite you to make these skills your own.

This book may change your life, and your community.

Costa Georgiadis

Designed to be read with a pot of tea by your elbow and a notebook beside you, Milkwood draws on rich seams of knowledge and experience to bring the essence of these five subjects to you in a friendly, let’s-get-going format.

Chapters  The Tomato | Mushroom Cultivation | Natural Beekeeping | Seaweed | Wild Food

From curious histories to DIY projects to wild fermented recipes, the in-depth knowledge and hands-on instruction contained in these pages will have your whole family fascinated and inspired to get growing, keeping, cooking and making.

What people said about it

At last! The book we’ve all been waiting for! Milkwood permaculture has been at the intellectual and practical forefront of all things growing, living and sharing for as long as I can remember. They have now blessed us with this stunning and knowledge-laden book that will doubtlessly become a dog-eared touchstone for anyone who enjoys getting their hands dirty and their belly fed.

Paul West, River Cottage Australia

This beautifully presented book gives readers the nitty-gritty guide for five diverse ways to nourish ourselves from stewarding nature’s abundance.

David Holmgren, co-originator of permaculture

A joyful guide to how to grow, eat and live in harmony with nature.

Indira Naidoo, The Edible Balcony

Size  21.0 × 26.0 × 3.0 cm, 1.25 kg
Pages  304, hardcover
ISBN  9781743364116
Publisher  Murdoch Books (Allen & Unwin), 2018

Get your copy

Booktopia, Dymocks or Murdoch Books in Australia and New Zealand. Bookshop.org in Europe and the UK. Amazon everywhere else.