At Milkwood Farm we’re just recovering currently from the intensive learning, laughing and washing up of having nearly 40 fine folk on-farm for two weeks. Here’s the short version of it all in pictures… Yet again, we have been honoured to steward an amazing bunch of people through two weeks of holistic thinking and designing,…
DetailsNext Wednesday in Sydney there’s a great night happening at Paddington Town Hall with Bob Brown, Ian Cohen and COSTA! Are you coming?
DetailsThink 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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‘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…
DetailsCity 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…
DetailsTime 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…
DetailsFinally 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…
DetailsI 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…
DetailsIt 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…
DetailsAustralian 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…
DetailsWe 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…
DetailsWhatever 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…
DetailsComing 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…
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