Milkwood Autumn Courses: Beekeeping, Mushrooms & more
Keen to make 2019 the year you finally start keeping bees? Growing mushrooms? Begin your garden? Or even start growing as a livelihood? Here you go, friend.
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The Milkwood Kids Seaweed Guide
Looking for something to do these holidays? Why not get to know your local seaweeds! With our free kids seaweed guide – from us, to you.
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A year of seaweed, jungles and campfires (and a book)
Looking back, I obviously should have gathered a lot more seaweed last winter – to feed the curious, the enthused and the yet-to be convinced who all came to our many book talks in spring. But I was in a jungle at the time, side-stepping marching ants and dodging falling coconuts – which made it…
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Making: Wild Fermented Elderflower Soda
It’s elderflower season, finally! The gullies + back lanes around our town are awash with their splashes of lacy whiteness, and all the goodness they bring. Starting with wild elderflower soda, our family’s favourite. And there’s so many other uses, too. But first, a little about the Elder Native to most of Europe and north…
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Beeswax DIY: making beeswax wraps + how to render your own wax
Beeswax is one of our favourite gifts from the hive – and perfect for making your own beeswax wraps. At this gifting time of year, no-waste, home made presents make all the sense in the world – so here’s how to make them. And how to render your raw beeswax down too, if you’re lucky…
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The Right to Roam: tips for first-time foragers
The food is all around us. It’s under our feet, along the path edges and next to the highway. It’s in the sand dunes, all over our favourite park and down nearly every back lane. There’s food out the back of the doctor’s surgery, hanging over the fence. It’s even between the cracks in the…
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Growing Great Tomatoes: Planting ’em Out
Growing great tomatoes is a skill available to just about anyone. But there are a few tricks to getting things right, including the planting out stage. So grab your tomato seedlings, sit down and do a bit of planning before you plant. Preparing your tomato beds, from planning to soil preparation to mulching to trellising,…
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Natural Beekeeping: a Principles Based Approach
Chapter three in Milkwood is all about Natural Beekeeping, and how you can use a principles-based approach to keep bees at home, safe and well, in a range of hive designs. But why natural beekeeping? Why not just keep bees in the ‘normal’ way? Well, from our perspective, and the perspective of a growing number of…
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Making Wildwood Tea
Wildwood tea is, in its essence, as individual and as unique as each household that makes it. It’s an expression of place, in a teapot. A warm hug, from the woods where you live – and from all four of your seasons, too. We make our wildwood tea from a combination of medicinals and flavours…
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Milkwood Book events: September (all of them!)
The Milkwood book tour is off and running – and we’re all over the place, from Brisbane to Melbourne. Join us at a free mushroom demo, an intimate author talk, or a seaweed show-and-tell somewhere? But firstly, we officially launched Milkwood on the first day of spring, at Pocket City Farms. And it was a…
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The Tomato: History, Growing Tips + Our Best-Ever Seed Raising Mix
Here’s a little extract from chapter 1 (The Tomato) from our first book, Milkwood… We can’t quite imagine life without tomatoes. They’re such a large part of our lives in spring, summer and autumn, and in winter, too. First, the careful seed-raising stage in early spring, in the warmth of our kitchen and then our…
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The Milkwood Book
It is with much excitement that we can finally share with you – the Milkwood book is coming. Hooray! Many years in the making, our little labour of love will be out in all good bookstores on September 1st. We are SO looking forward to sharing a load of feasts, extracts, explorations and events that…
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Winter reading: Great Gardening Books
Winter is the season of soup, long nights, and at our house – great gardening books! It’s this time of year when we plan, and consider, and compare last year’s yields and harvests against what we’re dreaming of for next season. The seed catalogues are strewn across the dining table, there’s talk of re-designing that…
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