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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Using what you have, to create Abundance and Community
You might not think it, but one excellent way to ‘obtain a yield’ is to give out first, and then receive. In this everyday action, we invite you to work on discovering what you have an abundance of, and figure out how to pass that along. In turn, this can bring other yields back around…
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Video: How To Grow Mushrooms in Buckets & a Wild Fungi Foraging Guide
Ready to learn the way of the mushroom? Here’s a How-To for growing mushrooms in buckets at your place! Plus a beginner’s guide to fungi ID. Fungi are an entirely separate kingdom of life – they’re not a plant, nor an animal. They’re a little bit weird and also deeply amazing. And without them, life…
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Creating a Resilient Garden: with pollinators, good bugs, lizards and more!
For a resilient garden, diversity is key. But diversity is not just about planting different kinds of veggies! You really want to encourage diverse garden visitors to you as well – pollinators, good bugs and visitors like small birds and lizards. By supporting diversity in your backyard ecosystem, you are doing many awesome things. The…
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Reducing & Reusing: Why Our Single-Use Packaging Habits Matter
Can we stop for a minute, and talk about single-use packaging? Yes, I know, you’ve got a lot going on right now. BUT how about the idea of cultivating a new small habit… in seeing single-use packaging as a reusable resource, in your home? For now, and for always. ‘Why would I care about single-use…
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Making a Mini Greenhouse, to Extend Your Growing Season
No matter if you’re gardening on a tiny patio or an acre or two, there is a mini-greenhouse design that is right for you! Greenhouses are a great way to extend your growing season, AND build your household resilience at the same time. By extending your growing season with a greenhouse, you can literally warp…
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Video: Seed Saving Basics & Starting Your Own Seed Bank
Feeling the need for seed? You too can become a seed saver! The basics are easy to learn, and creating a home seed bank is a great way to increase your household’s resilience -while protecting diversity AND strengthening your community. I think we have all become acutely aware of the importance of seeds, lately. In…
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Hawthorn: Foraging and Using – for heart and immunity care
All hail hawthorn! The medicine is all around us. Here’s how to forage and use Hawthorn for heart and immunity care – such an excellent wild plant friend for us all. Hawthorn supports the heart (it’s used to treat heart disease, angina and high blood pressure), and is also used for anxiety and urinary tract…
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8 weeks to Victory! An 8-week veggie patch from scratch, in a rental
Are you starting a veggie patch right now? Take heart! 8 weeks ago, our backyard was just scruffy grass, with not a thing to eat. Now, it’s feeding our family daily. And yes, we’re renting. Come and take a look – soon, this could be you! We’ve put together this little portrait of our current…
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