Gourmet Mushroom Cultivation
Join us for two jam-packed days of hands-on skills in edible mushroom propagation. Learn how to grow delicious oyster, shiitake, pioppino many other mushrooms at home, organically.
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…
Making an Off-grid DIY Mushroom Fruiting House
Here’s how we made a DIY off-grid mushroom fruiting house – for creating a humid forest simulation chamber, to grow LOTS of mushrooms right on our back porch. You can grow mushrooms in lots of different ways. We grow them in reusable containers – buckets and jars, and also in gardens, on logs and stumps…
Serious Backyard Veggies
Ready to get serious about vegetable growing in your backyard using organic techniques? Here’s two days of expert knowledge to get you growing.
27 Life Hacks for Permaculture Living
Want to design a better, earthier and more rewarding life with permaculture? Solutions-based thinking is not just for big design projects. Permaculture can also be used to improve the everyday, the little things, to create a happier you. Over the last 10 years, we’ve been gradually using permaculture principles to create better daily lives for…
Foraging + Using Turkeytail Mushrooms – Trametes Versicolour
All hail the turkeytail! No matter where you live in the world, this medicinal mushroom lives nearby. Indigenous to all continents except Antarctica, turkeytails have been gathered and used medicinally for hundreds of years. Once you know what to look for, turkeytails are not hard to identify. Gathered in late winter (ie now) before they…
Permaculture Design Certificate
A Milkwood Permaculture Design Certificate gives you the skills and knowledge to design and implement fundamental and life-changing resilience into your everyday home, community and beyond.
Intro to Permaculture
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, or farm.
Serious Backyard Veggies
Ready to get serious about vegetable growing in your backyard using organic techniques? Here’s two days of expert knowledge to get you growing.
Intro to Organic Market Gardening
Learn how to start an organic market garden from scratch with a combination of theory + on-farm knowledge.
Intro to Permaculture
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.
Intro to Permaculture
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.
Biointensive Growing
Join Jodi Roebuck, established biointensive grower, for a weekend learning the Biointensive Growing system – an organic vegetable growing method designed to maximise harvest in small spaces.
Biointensive Growing
Join Jodi Roebuck, established biointensive grower, for a weekend learning the Biointensive Growing system – an organic vegetable growing method designed to maximise harvest in small spaces.