Heya lovely readers, guess what? Our next intake of Permaculture Living is currently OPEN for bookings, until Wednesday 10th at 5pm. So if you’ve been planning to join us for a while, now might be a great time? One of the great things about this 12-week online course is that if you need to take…
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So, how to compost dog poop? Composting your pet’s poop at home is an excellent way to create even more nutrient-rich fertiliser for your garden soil, super-charging everything you grow within it. It’s something we do with our two little dogs and it’s surprisingly easy – although, depending on what type of pet you have,…
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We all know that dahlias are delicious to the eye and the heart, but also – great news! Dahlias (Acocoxochitl) are edible. Flower and tuber. Hooray. However, as with many edible plants… there’s edible, and then there’s tasty. All dahlias are edible, which is a great starting point for experimenting with. And some varieties are…
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Alrighty – Habits for Hope, here we go (what is this? Go here to learn more about the series)… Let’s start with what we see as an utterly essential habit for everyone – learning the story of the Country that you’re on. This usually means learning whose land you are on, and learning how to…
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I’m going to start off here with an extract from the intro section of our latest book The Milkwood Permaculture Living Handbook – I’ll explain why later – let’s dive straight in. Habits, hope and connection – how can we use the first one to create more of the other two? Cultivating connection gives our…
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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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