Easy Peasy: Gardening for Kids
We have a new book! Easy Peasy: Gardening for Kids is a do-it-yourself book for small people to explore the natural world around them, and grow and eat it, too.
Design It
A year of seaweed, jungles and campfires (and a book)
Looking back, I obviously should have gathered a lot more seaweed last winter – to feed the curious, the enthused and the yet-to be convinced who all came to our many book talks in spring. But I was in a … Continued
The Right to Roam: tips for first-time foragers
The food is all around us. It’s under our feet, along the path edges and next to the highway. It’s in the sand dunes, all over our favourite park and down nearly every back lane. There’s food out the back … Continued
Growing Great Tomatoes: Planting ’em Out
Growing great tomatoes is a skill available to just about anyone. But there are a few tricks to getting things right, including the planting out stage. So grab your tomato seedlings, sit down and do a bit of planning before … Continued
Natural Beekeeping: a Principles Based Approach
Chapter three in Milkwood is all about Natural Beekeeping, and how you can use a principles-based approach to keep bees at home, safe and well, in a range of hive designs. But why natural beekeeping? Why not just keep bees in … Continued
Making Wildwood Tea
Wildwood tea is, in its essence, as individual and as unique as each household that makes it. It’s an expression of place, in a teapot. A warm hug, from the woods where you live – and from all four of … Continued
Milkwood Book events: September (all of them!)
The Milkwood book tour is off and running – and we’re all over the place, from Brisbane to Melbourne. Join us at a free mushroom demo, an intimate author talk, or a seaweed show-and-tell somewhere? But firstly, we officially launched … Continued
The Tomato: history, growing tips + our best ever seed raising mix
Here’s a little extract from our new book Milkwood, which is in all good Australian/NZ bookstores starting THIS WEEK (yay) – and available worldwide from October 1st. It’s from the first chapter, ‘The Tomato’…. We can’t quite imagine life without … Continued
The Milkwood Book – sneak peek
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Author : Kirsten Bradley
It is with much excitement that we can finally share with you – the Milkwood book is coming. Hooray! Many years in the making, our little labour of love will be out in all good bookstores on September 1st. We … Continued
Winter reading: Great Gardening Books
Winter is the season of soup, long nights, and at our house – great gardening books! It’s this time of year when we plan, and consider, and compare last year’s yields and harvests against what we’re dreaming of for next … Continued
Permaculture Futures: Emmanuela Prigioni, Lyttleton Stores
Lyttleton Stores is a little piece of Blue Mountains magic, with community at its heart. A super inspiring example of what a small-town cooperative can be – local organic grocery, community gallery, kitchen, workshop space… you get excited the minute … Continued
All About Feijoas: growing, harvesting + recipes
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Author : Kirsten Bradley
Hooray, it’s feijoa season! Perfumed green fruits like no other, and the final harvest of our autumn. Here’s a few tips for growing, harvesting and eating them, including our favourite recipes. The feijoa is a smallish, evergreen tree that hails … Continued
How to Grow Great Garlic: a beginners guide
Garlic makes everything in life better. And since you can grow your own, quite easily, we thought it was time to write a beginners guide on how to grow great garlic. Whether you’ve only got a windowsill or a whole … Continued