How To Pickle & Lacto-ferment Veggies – Video + Resources
Ready to learn to pickle? Get started with our favourite pickling and lacto-fermentation methods – using whatever veggies are in your garden or your fridge.
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Thanks For Helping Us Reach 20k ‘Milkwood’ Books Out in the Wild
We’re pretty chuffed to be celebrating a big milestone! There are 20,000+ copies of Milkwood – Real Skills for Down to Earth Living in the bookshelves, laps, ebook readers, kitchen tables, and garden benches of awesome people across the world. It took us many years to gather and learn all this knowledge on our favourite…
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The Life Cycle of Fungi: Video
How much do you know about the lifecycle of fungi? You share 55% of your DNA with them, so you’re basically family. And did you know that fungi are not plants, and they’re not animals… but an entirely different queendom! Whether you’re simply a mushroom-lover or you want to grow your own mushrooms at home,…
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How To Build Healthy Soil for Your Best-Ever Veggies
Learning about your garden’s soil – what it actually is, and how to improve it to create a nourishing foundation or your garden – is an excellent way to increase your household’s resilience AND grow your best-ever veggies, both at once. And it’s dead-easy, once you know the basics. In the video below (which was…
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Start Your Own Home Herbal Medicine Cabinet – Using Wild Plants Growing Near You
Herbal medicine grows wild all around us – here’s 5 medicinal ‘weeds’ you can forage, and 3 easy recipes for your home herbal medicine cabinet.
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Nundle Community Garden: Connecting a Small Town Via Local Food + Composting
In a small NSW town, a new community garden has sprung up – complete with a special seat that’s part of a nation-wide food waste reduction experiment.
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Our Backyard Permaculture Design for Quoll Hollow
Time to share our new project! After years of journeying through family farms, rooftop community gardens, and a lot of rental permaculture… we’re finally putting down some roots. On a little patch of earth with a house on top, which has been christened Quoll Hollow by the kid (I veto-ed Dragons Rest, and various other…
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Growing Mushrooms: Getting Started with No-Waste Buckets, Logs & Gardens
Always wanted to learn to grow delicious and medicinal gourmet mushrooms at your place, using sustainable, low-waste techniques? Downloadable this free ‘getting started’ guide first!
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Home Mushroom Cultivation – our new online course
Our new online course – Home Mushroom Cultivation – is officially up and out into the world! Learn to grow edible, medicinal mushrooms at your place.
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Video: Rainwater Harvesting at Home for Beginners
Harvesting rainwater is an excellent strategy to increase your household’s resilience, and it’s available to (nearly) everyone. Got a sky, that rains sometimes? Well, you can begin! Let’s get harvesting. There’s so many simple hacks and systems you can set up at your place, even if you’re renting, to catch, store and use rainwater to…
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What is permaculture? – notes from the Permaculture Living course
Permaculture Living student Mirranda Burton created graphic notes while studying with Milkwood, to understand: ‘What is permaculture?’
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Building an All-Abilities Veggie Garden: a Chat with Grant Bailey
After suffering a spinal cord injury, Grant Bailey took up food gardening. In Tasmania, he’s created an all-abilities veggie garden that’s fully accessible even for people with reduced mobility.
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How To Prune Fruit Trees: in Winter and in Summer, too
Pruning fruit trees helps ensure a bigger and better harvest, provides easier access to fruit, and creates healthier trees – which means more resilience for you.
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