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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Curing Olives: Basic Brine + Salt Methods
Tis the season to brine olives! Or salt them, if you prefer. Whether you’ve grown them yourself or foraged them from bird-sown trees, it’s late Autumn that you want to pick and cure them. There are many ways to cure olives, but the essential thing is that you extract the glucosides from them – the chemicals that make the…
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Getting Started with Green Manures: How to Grow & Use for Your Best-Ever Soil & Veggies
Green manure crops are a great way to replenish or build your soil, with minimal input – helping you grow more food in all situations, from small veggie patches to expansive forest gardens.
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Food is Free: Growing Food and Community in the City of Ballarat
Food is Free Ballarat is an inspiring community project sharing veggies and produce with passers-by – completely free – to help build local food security. Here we chat with founder Lou Ridsdale.
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Video: The Beginner’s Guide to Worm Farms
Starting or renovating a worm farm is a great way to use and value your own renewable resources, in the form of food waste. Turn your food scraps into rich fertiliser for your veggie patch, wherever you live.
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How to: Honesty Stalls + Free Food Stands – Building Community, Sharing Produce
Sharing veggies with neighbours via an honesty stall plonked out the front of your place is an amazing way to build community connection and local resilience – and it’s really fun, too.
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Easy + Delicious Permaculture Holiday Recipes
Hey there, holidays! Whew, are we glad to see YOU this year. And now that we have a little more time – wondering what to make or brew, this end of year? Here’s a bunch of delicious permaculture holiday recipes for you to try – to make, bake and ferment – using found and foraged…
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Radical Hope: Bushfire Resources for a La Niña Year
Radical hope is also about preparedness, so we’ve gathered together some excellent bushfire readiness resources for you – to read and use in this cooler, wetter La Niña year (and beyond!). Thinking tools, planting lists, and learnings to sift through. This summer may bring a chance to plant and plan for many of us, so…
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Farm It Forward: connecting young farmers with donated land to grow organic food
Up in the Blue Mountains, a group of young farmers are growing rich organic produce – on donated land. It’s via the Farm It Forward social enterprise…
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‘Valuing the Marginal’ + a Free Foraging Guide
Foraging wild foods growing all around you is a great way to bring a marginal resource into your household. Learn how with our free foraging guide.
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Starting a Garden or Nature Diary – to Record Observations & Build Connections
Here’s how to start your own regular garden diary, full of useful observations to help you grow, plan and make good decisions in seasons to come.
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The Beginner’s Guide to Keeping Healthy, Happy Chickens + a downloadable checklist
Thinking of getting chickens? Watch + read this first! Our beginner’s guide to keeping happy and healthy chooks, plus a downloadable checklist, will get you asking all the ‘good questions’ you need to consider before you begin.
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Video: How to Do a 5 Day, No-Waste Challenge!
It’s Plastic Free July! Are you up for a 5 day no-waste challenge, focussing on single use plastics? Of course you are! Here’s how to get started… Before we begin, a word about plastics and privilege – here at Milkwood, we are NOT about motivating you via any sort of guilt trip. Nor do we…
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