Porridge to spare? Again? Here’s a great recipe for left over porridge bread and some other waste free porridge dishes. If you are a porridge eating household, there’s a good chance that occasionally, there’s a little left over in the pot. Or maybe, if you have kids, a forgotten half eaten bowlful still on the table.…
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Farmer Cass is an example of how Permaculture Design Training (and a whole lotta gumption) can lead from a career in pet minding to full-time organic farmer. Since doing her Milkwood Permaculture Design Course, Cass has travelled and researched different organic farming systems, interned and volunteered on all sorts of farms, and ended up as a…
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Here’s how we made some quick garden beds from scrap timber with everyday tools. These took us a morning to make, and they should last quite a few years. We made these beds this way because we’re living in a rental property, so investing in the cost and time of creating permanent veggie beds isn’t an option.…
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Ok folks, it’s time to get growing. Spring is just around the corner and we want to help you grow a bumper harvest this season. But there’s so many courses! Which should you choose? Let’s figure this out… Absolute Beginner Gardener Ok so you’re an aspiring green thumb, but you’re not sure where to start. And…
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I love nature tables. Collecting bits of nature and observing them up close is a wonderful way for children to learn and to connect with the world around them. But add a sun-dried lizard, fallen birds nest and a handful of dried wombat poo – and a nature table can quickly become messy and cluttered.…
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Recently we stayed at a small farm in the Bega valley that raises truly pastured chickens. Like, chase you across the paddock pastured chickens. Each morning, the chickens get let out of their night-time houses, and the houses are moved to fresh grass. Each day, the chickens roam the paddocks under the watchful eye of their…
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If you’re a Natural Beekeeper, then beeswax is part of your harvest – when you crush your natural comb to extract the honey, there’s beeswax to spare. That’s how beekeeping with natural comb works. It’s a good thing for your bees, because encouraging comb renewal is an important part of colony health. Honeybees prefer to lay their…
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Master Tonic, or Fire Cider, is a potent home-made remedy for winter colds and lurgies. It promises to boost your immune system, it’s anti bacterial, it’s anti viral and should ward any colds off like a medieval swordsperson. It also happens to be incredibly easy to make. The question is, will I be able to get…
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The whole freshly ground flour thing has been something i’ve been meaning to sort out for about 8 years now. And we finally did it! A delicious decision. In our kitchen we tend to keep things whole + basic + home produced wherever possible. Life gets in the way of this a bit, but mostly, we…
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So what does a permaculture design process look like on the ground, outside the world of a Permaculture Design Course? Here we have Dan Palmer, who’ll be teaching an Advanced Permaculture Design Course with us in October, sharing an example of his design process designing the surrounds of a suburban homestead in Victoria. Take it…
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Welcome to our new series on permaculture renting, in which we attempt to grow food and live a simple life while moving from rental to rental at the whim of landlords + Australian housing prices. Yay! So we’ve been off the farm just over a year now. We’ve just moved into our second rental house,…
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Our great-grandparents didn’t have slow cookers to make their life easier. But they may have had something similar – a box of hay. Haybox cooking involved placing a hot pot of food in a nest of hay and leaving it there to complete cooking. Thermal cooking is an efficient and convenient way to cook –…
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One of the great things about home mushroom propagation is that it can be entirely portable. Lease ended? No worries – pack up your bags, buckets and logs, and off you go. Your food supply comes with you. Which is good news for renters, like us. Unlike our veggie garden, when we had to move house…
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