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.
Details
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…
Details
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?’
Details
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.
Details
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.
Details
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…
Details
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.
Details
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.
Details
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.
Details
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.
Details
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…
Details
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…
Details
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…
Details