Tarkine Fundraiser in Sydney next Wednesday
Next Wednesday in Sydney there’s a great night happening at Paddington Town Hall with Bob Brown, Ian Cohen and COSTA! Are you coming?
Details5 Ideas to Kickstart Your Urban Permaculture
Think you’ve got no room to grow? Sure you do. If you have a bathroom, a kitchen bench or just an steely resolve, you’ve got what it takes for growing urban goodness. Here’s some ideas to get you going, wherever you live…
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Building our Greenhouse
‘Next year, we’ll build a proper greenhouse’ – how many years in a row have we said that? At least five. But at last, it’s happened. Given the frosty conditions and temperamental weather here, a happy space for our spring seedlings to germinate and grow has been a wonderful, powerful thing. No more seed raising…
DetailsFootpath gardening: new resources for Sydney
City of Sydney has released their footpath gardening policy! And it’s pretty darn encouraging. There’s guidelines and how-tos and even cash grants for folks who want planter boxes…
DetailsUrban Permaculture Design Course upcoming…
Time for some city permaculture action! This January, the awesome Hannah Moloney will be teaming up with Milkwood’s Nick to deliver an Urban Permaculture Design course smack bang in the center of Sydney. This Urban PDC will be 13 days of intensive learning, designing and doing with two of Australia’s most dynamic and respected permaculture…
DetailsKombucha, round one
Finally it’s time to start a milkwood kombucha brew, following the donation of a mother mushroom from a friend. We started simple, but we have vast dreams of many flavoured brews, which will adorn our every shelf and fill our tummies with fizzy fermented goodness. But first, the basics…
DetailsSunset Soccer
I think this is what soccer is meant for. Maybe it’s what all sport is meant for. To enable 13 random adults and one 4 year old to get out of their heads and run and dodge and run themselves into a panting, hooting, grinning sweat, as the sun goes down behind the hills…
DetailsPreserving Strawberries: hello disaster, meet success
It was too good to be true – a large supply of organic strawberries, and all for me. To turn into the sweetest of christmas gifts – after all, what says ‘thank you for everything’ better than a jar of exquisite, edible rubies? Nothing, that’s what! However manifesting those jars of jewels proved trickier than…
DetailsUrban Stingless Beehive: harvesting and splitting
Australian native stingless bees are similar to european honeybees in many ways, but they’re also very different, too. This week I was lucky enough to attend a harvest and a hive split of these amazing social insects, in a inner-city backyard in Sydney…
DetailsAt this time of year…
We are eating pumpkin tart, and sowing seedlings. Doing rain dances, watching the skies. Playing with sticks (for better or worse), and listening to the bees hum…
DetailsFood Security. and Free Stickers…
Whatever works, I say. And these stickers certainly do it for me. Our good friend Diego is building an open-source Wild Food map of Sydney, and he needs help to make it happen! By pitching in you can score some of the above stickers, or a ticket to a weeds dinner, or attend a rather…
DetailsWorkshop Schedule for the Permaculture Piazza (and a giveaway)
Coming up in less than two weeks, we’ll be running 3 days of free workshops at Gardening Australia Live in Sydney. There’s workshops on everything from aquaponics to vertical gardening to strawbale building to sauerkraut, with guest appearances by all sorts of awesome experts! Here’s the schedule…
DetailsTo Vacola or not to Vacola?
This year I am going to be ready for preserving season. So ready. I am going to have all the jars I need, and all the lids and seals for those jars. And I’m going to know where they all are, too, rather than discovering their ‘safe’ (read: obscure) storage place next winter, once the…
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