So, thinking about growing your own mushrooms? Great! There are many ways to grow delicious mushrooms at home – AND, despite what you might have heard, you can do it all without single-use plastic! Why is this important? Well first, there’s the waste of single-use plastic, which is industry-standard for commercial mushroom growing – and…
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Celebrity chef Simon Toohey is delving into permaculture, bringing the movement’s ethics and principles in from the garden to kitchens and restaurants.
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Learning how to grow mushrooms in your home garden increases your household’s resilience, enhances your garden’s soil – and makes your tummy very happy.
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We’ve been making herbal tea posies from our garden, to leave on sick or isolating friends’ doorsteps… community care in a jar. Here’s what goes in.
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Holiday time is almost here – here are 15 low-stress, feel-good projects to tinker on during the holidays – in your kitchen, garden, and out and about.
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Growing food in pots? You don’t need store-bought potting mix – learn how to make your own no-dig potting mix instead, for healthy and abundant veggies.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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