Raising slow food kids can be done in simple everyday ways – it’s not about cooking a hand-made feast three times a day! Just get them involved, take the time and watch your family grow, in more ways than one. Introduce kids to the wonderful world of slow food from the very beginning and you’ll…
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Best Passata Day ever! Great tomatoes, even better company and a bonus electrical storm in the middle. What more could you ask for when spending a day storing the season of Summer? This was our second Passata Day held up in the 107 rooftop garden – and it was a hot one. But we’d moved…
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Though we may not realise it, common ground is still to be found in our towns. It’s just not called that anymore. And utilizing common land as the community resource it is makes good sense. Especially when you can turn brambles into cheese. Down the side and out the back – the gully behind the hill,…
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Popes produce is a small urban market garden in Woonoona, providing fresh veg and fruit to it’s surrounding community. Bordered by lines of units, this little piece of urban farming paradise is sharing the goodness all around. Popes Produce is Sarah + Ben Anderson, with assistance from their kids. Together they farm a long thin…
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Two whole weeks of permaculture design is quite an immersion. It’s 14 days of new knowledge, new friends, new ideas, new skills, and a bunch of ‘oh yeah’ moments besides. Every time we’re lucky enough to host and teach one of these intensive permaculture design certificates, we get to watch people grow, bigtime. And then…
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When street trees are also highly delicious. Bring on the lilli pilly everything. Where we live on the south coast of NSW, lilli pilli’s are just about everywhere – they’re up in the rainforest (where they’ve always been – they’re an Australian native) and they’re also on the street and down the sides of houses,…
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I think we got lost for a little bit there… In between all the educating and the ‘how-to’ ing, when we started calculating that it was more economic to work more, keep our kid in after school care, and buy bread. Because, future. We wanted one. And working our asses off in the office or…
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Wondering what Milkwood’s all about, and why we do what we do? Here’s the 60 second version… Although, of course, if you read this blog, you’re probably fairly familiar with what we do. But please do watch the video anyway – it’s been quite a few years coming. It’s got natural building, chickens, bees, Joel Salatin,…
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This place, Melliodora. A world renowned permaculture homestead, full of nut, fruit and forage trees, geese, goats, berries, vegetables, mudbrick homes and lives worth living. If you have studied, read or participated in any Permaculture-type doings and learnings in Australia, then you’ll be aware of the stellar home-scale permaculture demonstration site that is Melliodora, in…
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Eat that which grows where you live, and mostly plants. That’s pretty much our dietary approach, in this house. We try to keep it simple, and as local as possible, in the interests of provenance, thrift, energy footprint, and grounding ourselves where we are. And we are, currently, by the sea. Fish and it’s sustainable…
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There’s a big range of ways you can start your seedlings off to get them to grow well, both at their seedling stage and later on, when you plant them out. Previously, we’ve worked with seeding into seedling trays, with soil blocks, and more recently, with biointensive seedling flats. Each of these techniques have their…
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Harvesting a box of warré honeycomb is an exciting event in any beekeeping year – its a sign that your bees have so much honey stored that taking a full box of honeycomb off the top of the hive won’t even be missed. It’s been about 4 years since we’ve harvested – firstly due to two poor summers…
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What do you get when you mix two determined farmer girls with an acre of good land? Rad Growers, that’s what. Erin O’Callaghan + Belinda Joy Sheekey are two fine people that we first met as students during two of our Permaculture Design Certificate courses. Since then, they’ve teamed up to farm seasonal vegetables on an acre of…
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