The inside-outside woodbox for the tinyhouse is competed and now awaits filling! Now we can simply add firewood via the little, purpose-built external door, and open it from the inside, right next to the woodstove. Yay for easy heat and cooking energy delivery. I suppose if our spanky new (ok so it’s salvaged, but it’s…
DetailsTime to move the pigs. They’ve done a great job tractoring and manuring up in the suntrap, in readiness for groundcover plantings. Now we need their help down below the swale, to help prep ground for the new forest garden. Time for the biggest adventure the pigs’ lives on their own trotters – all the…
DetailsNext release in our area-specific internships is the forest garden & silviculture projects of Milkwood Farm. The first forest garden & silviculture internship slot is 3 October – 28 November, and applications close on 20th August. This internship is an opportunity for someone to work side by side with Dan Harris Pascal; designing, implementing and…
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(A note that the above clip is in the garden at Quoll Hollow, where we live now on melukerdee country, and the references to Milkwood Farm below are from our years up north on Wiradjuri country) Azolla is a native water plant with some seriously exciting attributes for anyone looking to develop closed-loop cycles for…
DetailsSunday picnic, down by the creek. No hammers, no greywater schematics, no mushroom propagation and no internet. Just oranges and sandwiches and skimstones and dappled sunlight…
Right about now is a good time to dig up bits of comfrey root and redistribute it wherever you need, but do not yet have, good soil. Garden path edges, forest garden path edges, places where you want to plant fruit trees next year, and so on. Comfrey is the ultimate multitasking plant. It shades…
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Milkwood Farm is now officially 100% solar powered. Yay! 12 CIS solar panels are now affixed to the roof of the top shed and turning sunlight into goodness for power tools and light, as we approach the move-in date for our tinyhouse. Being off-grid as we are (even though our family farm next door is…
DetailsAs spring slowly creeps towards us, things are stirring in the market garden… time to introduce our new Market Gardener, and plant field peas! Enter Michael Hewins, who, after joining us as a very experienced wwoofer for some months last season at Milkwood Farm, has returned to take on the organic market garden as an…
DetailsJust received our greenhorns badges and kerchief (and about 100 stickers also)… yeah! The world needs more stickers championing us to fix nitrogen…
This is my favorite tiny house book that the moment. Even in the age of instant access to a gazillion glossy photos of natural building, tiny houses and all the rest, this publication stands apart as a book worth having, because of its composition and its coming together of so many different strands of knowledge…
DetailsIn a small house in Byron Bay, surrounded by lush gardens sporting edible plants from ever continent on earth, live two of Australia’s living legends. No truly, I’m not being romantic – if i can achieve but a fraction of what these folks have done to create resilience for future generations, I’ll die happy. Jude…
DetailsHere’s a couple of photos of an Aquaponics system our friend Floyd recently built in Thailand. His brief was to provide fish, herbs and greens for the staff of an island-based business, on a site that was not exactly prime growing medium (read: sand)…
Despite saying these words for the last year or so, this time I mean it. We’re nearly there. 5 years of planning, building, learning, dumpster diving, salvaging, making, wishing, waiting, thinking, re-thinking, improvising, budgeting, re-budgeting and hammering later… we’re about to move in. I have made a little promise with myself that I won’t regale…
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