‘Packed with minerals and protein, and easy to grow at home’… too right. Home mushroom cultivation is a good idea, for everyone. You don’t even need a window in your house (though we do hope that you have one), let alone a window sill or outdoor area to grow nutrient dense, protein rich, organic mushroomy goodness…
Check out these gorgeous mushroom cultivation posters by Victor Paiam… Read More »
Our Urban Permaculture Design Course is coming up fast in July, and is shaping to be pretty special. Leading the learning will be the awesome Hannah Moloney, supported by Nick Ritar and none other that the co-originator of Permaculture, David Holmgren.
The great thing about this teaching team is the breadth of experience and enthusiasm they bring to share with students of urban permaculture design – Hannah is a long-time urban community cultivator, Nick’s focus is the small farm / urban permaculture resurgence, and David Holmgren, well, he’s David Holmgren. Need we say more. But we will. Read More »
Nearly time for our next Intro to Permaculture course! It’s coming up fast on the 13 – 14 April in Sydney.
Nick teaches this course as a two day intensive that aims to give students a solid grounding in permaculture theory as applies to the everyday. It’s all about taking the big ideas, concepts and advantages of biomimicry, and applying them at home… Read More »
Recently we welcomed a crew of budding market gardeners to Milkwood Farm to start learning the craft of organic market gardening.
The crew was a mix of city folks dreaming of rooftop farms, enterprising suburban folks, small farm owners looking to diversify and keen-but-landless growers looking for opportunities. All of them left full of good knowledge. Read More »
February 16, 2013 – 6:00 am
Just a quick note that we’re extremely excited to announce a comprehensive Natural Building course that will be happening at Milkwood Farm 6 – 9 April 2013 with Sam Vivas of Viva Eco Homes.
As you may have worked out, we’re rather passionate about natural building, and the empowerment that comes from having the knowledge and skills to build non-toxic, living homes from natural materials.
If this course had been around when we were building the Tiny House, we would have been there in a flash. It will cover load bearing strawbale building, earthern floors, reciprocal roofs, roundwood building, cobb building and earth and line renders. All with a focus on skilling up the owner-builder to either build their own or be in an informed position to direct a natural building project.
All the details are here: Natural Building: Apr 2013: Milkwood Farm NSW
February 14, 2013 – 5:57 am
The Bee People was written by Margaret Warner Morley in 1905 as a book for children about honeybees; their biology, their social habits, their work as pollinators, and their honey. I picked it up as a curiosity but you know what? It’s a pretty solid bee book for kids. Read More »
February 11, 2013 – 7:00 am
Without Joyce and Mike from Allsun Farm, we probably wouldn’t have a market garden. These two firey spirits have been growing good stuff and passing on their knowledge for decades. We feel lucky to know them and we love to see other folks writing about them. Read More »
