After a crazy, wonderful and challenging spring, we’ve finally hosted the last Milkwood event till after New Years. Wow.
Since the farm opened in September we’ve taught and hosted courses in forest gardening, permaculture design, mushroom cultivation, market gardening and beekeeping and polished it off with big open days. Alongside all that, we’ve been establishing and growing market gardens, forest gardens and emerging animals systems. In short, there’s been a lot on. Read More
This week has been all about vegetables, forest garden establishment and permaculture design. And ferment, as always. In between I snuck in a trip to Allsun Farm and discovered the delights of Old Mill Road Farm at Moruya… Read More
This week at Milkwood Farm we’re in full swing with our spring Permaculture Design Certificate, but of course there’s plenty else going on. Our season’s worth of tomatoes are all in the ground, the lower dam wall is being prepped for pumpkin growing (with sheep) and there’s biochar on the boil… Read More
Spring is here, the tomatoes are being planted, and it’s all about the mulch. Also, we’ve had 13mm of rain! And in a season like this, 13mm warrants a celebration…
We’re also embarking on our first Permaculture Design Certificate of the season here this weekend, so the farm is a-buzz with new people & Rose is cooking up a storm (as always). The new piglets have settled in, the forest garden implementation continues, and it’s all systems go… Read More
Despite telling everyone in earshot (frequently) that he’s Ashar Tyranna (and therefore a meat eating dinosaur), negotiations have been made to revert to being a brontosaurus at mealtimes, for the sake of ensuring salad consumption. It works sometimes.
Everyone else around here snaps up their luscious kitchen garden salad greens without so much as a stomp or a growl. But i guess it’s harder for a Tyranna. Balance in all things… Read More
This last week at Milkwood Farm we’re kicking into the swing of Spring, and welcoming new crew to the Farm. There was a Mushroom Cultivation course held, and much home-cured, home grown, nitrate-free bacon consumed (I cannot tell you the ballpark of yum this equates to. Let’s just say alot).
The Cima di Rapa is growing great guns, though the peas are taking their sweet time. There’s ladybugs out in force, not nearly enough rain, and many bees a-buzzing. At night we dream of load-bearing strawbale reciprocating roof structures, and read about weeds. Read More
So we have these great fuzzy caterpillars in the forest garden who occasionally get together and go journeying in a long, fuzzy line.
We happened to be in the forest garden during one such sojourn, and Nick decided to do a bit of caterpillar-wrangling… Read More
Sunday picnic, down by the creek. No hammers, no greywater schematics, no mushroom propagation and no internet. Just oranges and sandwiches and skimstones and dappled sunlight…
Just received our greenhorns badges and kerchief (and about 100 stickers also)… yeah! The world needs more stickers championing us to fix nitrogen… Read More
It’s pretty amazing what a bunch of logs, a lot of gumption, some wheelbarrows and a couple of days digging can do. What was once a slippery slope becomes a lovely place to be – what a huge difference a home-made set of steps can make!
The core edible forest garden of Milkwood Farm is on sloping ground, and ends up against the chicken’s strawyard. And dividing the two, up until recently, has been a steep and slippery dirt track. But Trevor decided to change that, so he called our available on-farm crew together, and they set about transforming the space. Read More
