Growing mushrooms at home in a hot summer is entirely possible, and it can actually increase your household and backyard resilience (and nutrition!) in all kinds of ways – it’s all about working with the seasons, and designing different functions to work together. Quite doable, in any backyard. From providing a diverse harvest for your…
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“The Milkwood Permaculture Living Handbook is a guide to improving your home, health and happiness – and the planet – one simple step at a time.Packed with meaningful action for the everyday, it’s full of practical skills and projects – regenerative living for busy people who want to make a positive impact in a world…
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Welcome to the first year of our garden, in which we transformed our backyard from a grassy slope into a terraced land of veggies, fruit trees, berries and chickens, with so many flowers in between that the bees are spoilt for choice. We live on un-ceded melukerdee country in southern lutruwita Tasmania, on a 1/2…
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At its heart, The Milkwood Permaculture Living Handbook is about helping you cultivate habits for living with meaningful connection and purpose. Because this is how we cultivate hope. But how to get started with habits that are truly world-changing? And how do you ground yourself and create resolve to keep going in the face of…
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Winter is a great time of year to welcome new strains of tasty mushrooms into your backyard. You can even gather some edible species from around your local ‘hood, and then multiply them at home with this easy mushroom cloning technique – to make DIY mushroom spawn on cardboard. All you need is some cardboard,…
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So when I wrote The Milkwood Permaculture Living Handbook, I wrote about small, positive, everyday changes and habits – that you can consider, try out, and add to your daily life if they suit you. We do not expect you to take on all the habits suggested, or turn your life upside down in 7…
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So – you’re keen to kickstart your household towards resilience, and start making it a Real Thing – but where do you start? What will actually make a difference? And how can you keep your spirits up, and lower your stress levels, and save money, too – while making it all actually happen, at your place? Teaching…
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“Active Hope is about being active participants in bringing about what we hoped for. Active hope is a practice. It is something we do, rather than have. It is a process we can apply in any situation.” ~ Joanna Macy, from her book Active Hope. At the recent Australian Permaculture Convergence, on Paramangk country near…
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There’s SO many awesome mushrooms out there to learn to grow – so where do you start? We thought it’s high time we shared our 10 Best Mushrooms to Grow at Home, for beginners. Ok so by ‘best’ I mean ‘favourite’, I guess. But we’ve also selected these ten species because they are all easy…
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Growing your own food is one of the most life-affirming things you can do AND you get to eat delicious veggies as a result. And it’s totally possible, even if you live in a small space or rental, or have a super-tight budget to work within. To help get you started, Anna Matilda from The…
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Getting your seed-raising mix just right is super important for growing strong seedlings, which in turn become strong plants that produce mountains of edible deliciousness for you. While you can buy mixes from the shops, making your own is much cheaper and usually assures a higher-quality result than a commercial seed-raising mix. Plus, you get…
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A wild food map is a simple way to identify and keep track of all the places where edible weeds, feral fruit, medicinal mushrooms and other yum things grow in your local area – so that, come late summer and autumn, many a happy weekend can be spent finding, picking and eating the bounty. Free,…
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So you’ve heard about permaculture living and reckon it sounds great, but aren’t quite sure how to get started while you’re living in a rental? Today, Anna Matilda from The Urban Nanna is going to show us 15 simple things you can try right away, no matter where you live – no garden required either.…
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