Storing the season can be done in many delicious ways, but I have to say, dried fruit is one of my favourite ways to do it. In Summer, it’s pears, nashis, peaches + strawberries. In Autumn, it’s all about the apples. In Winter, it’s citrus, and kiwi, and banana. And in Spring… well, you’ve got…
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Here’s a few photos from our Autumn Natural Beekeeping course in Sydney, and some resources for you to be reading over Winter. These shots are from opening a hive that Adam Kennedy, who hosts our Natural Beekeeping courses, caught as a swarm and housed in a Warré hive box – go Adam! The bees are…
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Seed balls. In a nutshell, they are a ball of clay and compost with seeds inside. Sounds pretty simple right? Well they are, they really are. They’re incredibly easy to make, and are a rather excellent way to get things growing in areas that don’t usually have much plant growth. This month’s 107 Rooftop Garden…
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Last weekend we gathered with a crew of local folks to harvest + replant the 107 Rooftop Garden – seedlings, celery, turmeric, leeks + more… First up we led everyone through the skill of seed ball making (we’ll post a how-to on this technique shortly) and then it was on to garden chores. Our monthly garden…
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These delicious little things have become a house staple at our place – the go-to biscuit of lunchbox and ‘we have nothing to munch’ issues alike. They’re crunchy and chewy and full of yum, and extremely easy to make. You can make them with white flour as per the recipe below, or you can make…
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It’s not often you get to spend two weeks learning design with a group of folks who want to change the world. But that’s what a Milkwood Permaculture Design Course pretty much is. Our Autumn PDC students came from all over the planet to spend two weeks thinking, designing and doing in the rainforest just south of…
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Growing edibles in a vertical garden is a great space-efficient way to grow good food. But which sorts of plants work best and will thrive in this kind of system? As with all garden design, it depends. Is your vertical garden in full sun, or full shade? Is it in a sheltered place, or exposed? These factors, and…
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The time for our Winter Permaculture Design Course is coming up fast! It’s happening 12 – 25 July in Sydney. For this course, we’re very excited to have a truly stellar teaching team to lead new designers through their learning: Hannah Moloney, Nick Ritar, Rosemary Morrow, Brendan Morse + Narelle Happ. We often get asked…
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Hey! What are you doing on Saturday 13th June? Come and learn something new with us. It’s our monthly 107 Rooftop Gardening day, and this time we are doing: SEEDBALL WORKSHOP + GARDEN CHORES Saturday June 13 – 9am – 11am – 107 Rooftop Garden In this workshop we’re making seedballs – an excellent technique…
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When you’re creating a permaculture design, mapping where the sun falls on your site at different times of the year is central. Why? Because plants need sun. If you want healthy veggies or sweet fruit, you need to place your gardens, greenhouses and orchards where they will get adequate sunshine for the parts of the…
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Time to get growing, peeps! We’ve just launched two new one-day courses to help folks start gardening + growing fruits and nuts from absolute scratch. Organic Gardening Basics We’ve had a bunch of requests for a start-at-the-start, one day food growing course that can take you from enthusiastic-but-no-idea to someone who can, really truly, grow their…
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It’s a common dream – get some friends together, pool resources, buy land and grow goodness for the community. But unlike many dreamers, Fork & Hoe Collective are actually doing it. And we love them for it. Fork & Hoe Collective are Natasa, Scott, Thea and Jono, with junior farmers Sen and Jethro. They farm…
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A delicious vegetable dip (with home made crackers) is a hard snack to beat. Here’s three super easy and awesomely tasty recipes you should make right now… Sitting down and sharing food with others has to be one of the best things in life. Whether it be an intimate dinner for two, a shared breakfast…
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