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…
Join Nick Ritar with special guest David Holmgren, for 2 days of permaculture design theory and action. You will leave this course with a solid grounding of how you can apply permaculture principles in your home, garden, apartment or farm.
Join us for two jam-packed days of skills in no-waste, edible + medicinal mushroom propagation. Learn how to grow delicious oyster, shiitake, lions mane, king stropharia and many other mushrooms at home, organically!
Join us for 2 days of permaculture design theory and action. You will leave this course with a solid grounding of how you can apply permaculture principles in your home, garden, apartment or farm.
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 of the doctor’s surgery, hanging over the fence. It’s even between the cracks in the…
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 you plant. Preparing your tomato beds, from planning to soil preparation to mulching to trellising,…
Join us for a morning of discovery and salty snacks! At our Kids Seaweed Discovery Walk – for little people and their adults.
A Honeybee High Tea, at our fave farm of bees, goats and goodness…
It’s a Honeybee Afternoon Tea! Calling all bee-keepers and bee-lovers. To celebrate the release of Milkwood: Real Skills for Down to Earth Living, the very wonderful Matthew + Sadie of Fat Pig Farm are holding a honeybee afternoon tea! Whether you have hundreds of hives or are still working up to your very first one, we’d love…
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 your seasons, too. We make our wildwood tea from a combination of medicinals and flavours…
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 Milkwood on the first day of spring, at Pocket City Farms. And it was a…
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 tomatoes. They’re such a large part of our lives in spring, summer and autumn, and…
Join us for a morning of discovery and salty snacks! At our family seaweed foraging picnic – for little people and their adults.
Join us for a FREE community workshop on how to grow your own waste-free mushrooms (from the mushroom chapter in our new book), at The Farm at Byron Bay. Followed by a Q&A with the authors, and book signings. Stick around afterwards for afternoon tea? In partnership with The Farm at Byron Bay and Byron’s local…