Plant it, grow it, use it, eat it! Here's our favourite resources on growing all types of good things – from microgreens to oak trees.

See below for planting guides, how-to's, books and resources, as well as interviews with amazing growers to get you inspired…

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

The ‘Gundaroo Tiller’ is an Australian adaptation the traditional European broadfork, and an essential tool for our small market garden. It may look like just a big clunky fork-thing, but it is actually a finely tuned instrument of permaculture soil conditioning goodness. Truly. Famously, when Allan Yeomans‘ saw his first Gundaroo Tiller, he called it…

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

In just over a month we’ll be hosting an Intro to Organic Market Gardening course smack-bang in the middle of the Milkwood market garden. This will be 2 hands-on days of crop planning, garden design and as much planting, growing and harvesting knowledge as we can squeeze in. This course is designed for people interested…

Breaking new ground in the market garden

This spring we’re extending the market garden, and that means more rabbit-proof fencing, and more ‘breaking ground’. In permaculture, we try not to break (both literally and figuratively) ground wherever possible, but one exception to that rule is when cultivating annual vegetables en-masse. Before we started this market garden, I thought that maybe we could…

Upcoming Market Garden Masterclass at Allsun Farm

In early September we’ll be running a 3-day Market Garden Masterclass at the fabulous Allsun Farm in Gundaroo, which will be taught by Joyce Wilkie and Mike Plane, two long-time organic market gardeners (and our mentors for the Milkwood market garden). This 3-day class is a chance for folks with good backyard (or larger scale)…

Replenishing the Market Garden with Winter green manures

Sowing Winter green manure crops are a crucial part of Milkwood Farm’s organic vegetable growing regime – the green manures convert sunlight to nutrients, then get dug into the soil in early Spring, and become food for us all. Green manures in the veggie garden can also be used as a living understorey for growing…