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All About Feijoas: growing, harvesting + recipes

May 10, 2018 | Food & Fermentation, Forest Gardening, Fruit Trees, Melliodora, Permaculture | comments | Author : Kirsten Bradley

Hooray, it’s feijoa season! Perfumed green fruits like no other, and the final harvest of our autumn. Here’s a few tips for growing, harvesting and eating them, including our favourite recipes. The feijoa is a smallish, evergreen tree that hails … Continued


Planting a Three Sisters Garden: stacking in space and time

April 21, 2017 | Gardening, Melliodora, Permaculture, Seed Saving | comments | Author : Kirsten Bradley

This year we finally got a chance to try out a three sisters garden planting –  maize, beans and squash, growing symbiotically. It was an awesome success. Stacking in space and time is one of my favourite ways to grow … Continued


Natural Building: Passive House, Active People

February 6, 2017 | Appropriate Technology, Building, Melliodora, Natural Building | comments | Author : Kirsten Bradley

Building a well designed, passive solar house can mean comfort in both summer and winter, with minimal energy inputs. On the hottest day of summer, it’s comfortable and cool inside. On the coldest night of the year, passively collected solar heat warms … Continued


Mid Summer: Berries, plums + treehouse builds

January 16, 2017 | Biointensive, Farming, Gardening, Melliodora | comments | Author : Kirsten Bradley

It’s mid summer here at Melliodora. The days are hot and the cicadas sing in the trees all around. It’s a time for berries, plums, treehouse builds + giant zucchinis. We rise early before the heat starts – to water precious plants, … Continued


Making DIY Glass Cloches for Early Spring Plants

September 12, 2016 | Appropriate Technology, Gardening, Market Garden | comments | Author : Kirsten Bradley

If you live in a cold or temperate climate, Spring can be a bit slow when it comes to starting seedlings. Here’s how to make DIY Glass Cloches for Early Spring Plants. When I look at all my little seedlings, slowly … Continued


Home Made: 3 Bathtub Greywater System

August 22, 2016 | Appropriate Technology, Natural Building, Nutrient Cycling, Permaculture, Permaculture Design, Water Harvesting + Reuse | comments | Author : Kirsten Bradley

Greywater is a fabulous, though often underused, household resource that should be used wherever possible. Here’s a home made 3 bathtub greywater system that’s simple but effective. If you live in an area where water is precious at certain times … Continued


Growing: Enokitake Mushrooms in the Currant Patch

July 25, 2016 | Foraging, Forest Gardening, Mushrooms | comments | Author : Kirsten Bradley

Enokitake are a delicious wild mushroom that’s a great addition to any food growing system, so we were excited to find them growing unannounced in the black currant patch at Melliodora. Time to encourage and cultivate! Talk about stacking functions. … Continued


Moving to Melliodora

April 11, 2016 | Melliodora, Permaculture | comments | Author : Kirsten Bradley

We have some exciting news to share, both for us and for you. From mid-Winter this year, Nick, Kirsten + Ashar will be de-camping to Melliodora in Victoria, an amazing permaculture homestead and the home of Permaculture co-originator David Holmgren + … Continued


Farming the Commons: How to Turn Brambles into Goats Cheese

February 22, 2016 | Animals, Foraging, Frugalism, Grazing, Integrated Pest Management, Permaculture | comments | Author : Kirsten Bradley

Though we may not realise it, common ground is still to be found in our towns. It’s just not called that anymore. And utilizing common land as the community resource it is makes good sense. Especially when you can turn brambles … Continued


Visiting Melliodora in a Dry Year

January 25, 2016 | Animals, Appropriate Technology, Forest Gardening, Frugalism, Gardening, Permaculture | comments | Author : Kirsten Bradley

This place, Melliodora. A world renowned permaculture homestead, full of nut, fruit and forage trees, geese, goats, berries, vegetables, mudbrick homes and lives worth living. If you have studied, read or participated in any Permaculture-type doings and learnings in Australia, … Continued


David Holmgren resources giveaway

June 17, 2013 | Permaculture, Permaculture Design | comments | Author : Kirsten Bradley

In celebration (and anticipation) of hosting the insightful and awesome David Holmgren for an Advanced Permaculture Principles and planning tools course in Sydney this July, here’s a pack of fabulous resources we’d like to give to someone…


A visit to Melliodora with David Holmgren

March 30, 2013 | Building, Forest Gardening, Natural Building, Off-Farm goings on, Permaculture, Permaculture Design | comments | Author : Kirsten Bradley

Recently Nick was lucky enough to hang out with David Holmgren for a couple of days at Melliodora, the superb small-acre permaculture site that David has established with his partner Su Dennett  in Hepburn Springs, Victoria. Being in the thick … Continued


PDC week 2: David Holmgren’s Permaculture Principles

June 22, 2011 | Courses + Workshops, Permaculture, Permaculture Design | comments | Author : Kirsten Bradley

The second week of our Winter 2011 Permaculture Design Certificate, we were lucky enough to have David Holmgren, co-originator of Permaculture, presenting for the whole day. I don’t think anyone will forget this day in a hurry. Apart from walking … Continued


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