Tag Archives: forest garden

Visiting Happy Earth, a kick-ass suburban food forest garden…

Recently Nick + I went to visit Ally and Rich (aka Happy Earth) who have created a truly amazing food forest garden in their suburban lot near Wollongong, NSW. It is a beautiful place of lushness, food, and fun. The thing I like most about Happy Earth is that Ally and Rich have transformed this [...]

Milkwood Forest Garden: zero to now

Here is our Forest Garden in December 2007, four years ago. You might notice there’s nothing there. There wasn’t anything anywhere, at Milkwood Farm. Just out little caravan, and us, dreaming of turning this rocky hillside into a kick-ass permaculture farm. We knew we wanted to create a rocking Forest Garden as part of Milkwood [...]

Happy Earth’s ‘Grow Local’ Illawarra Edible Garden Guide

Happy Earth are a great little crew down in Wollongong, proving that you can create an abundant urban homestead. And they’re just created a really awesome community resource in the form of this garden guide, which is free to all. Regardless of whether you actually live in the Illawarra region or not, make sure you [...]

A Way Through the Woods: Designing the Paths in our Forest Garden

So we’re creating a forest garden – a lush, shady place, dripping with fruit and springing with herbs, flowers and tubers. But when you think of a forest garden, do you think of paths, their construction, and their capabilities? Or do you just figure you’ll wind your way through the green herbage as you see [...]

Gardening like a Forest: podcast with Dave Jacke

Edible Forest Gardens – Volumes 1 and 2 by Dave Jacke and Eric Toensmeier is a spectacular double volume of knowledge. Really, truly incredible stuff. So it was with some excitement that i found this recent podcast with Dave Jacke on Gardening like a forest. Author of Edible Forest Gardens- Volumes 1 and 2, Dave [...]

Forest Garden blooming

Spring is slowly but surely springing at Milkwood, and our new forest garden is beginning to wake up from the cold and grow, grow grow!

Food Forest Garden: Books and Resources

Here’s a bunch of Forest Garden books and resources we’ve put together for the students of our Food Forest Garden workshops. There is so very much to learn, read, think about and absorb here! And it’s all incredibly useful and exciting information. Many thanks to Milkwood Farm’s resident plant-whisperer Dan Harris Pascal for putting these [...]

Milkwood Forest Garden Plantathon!

There is nothing so joyful as a large group of people coming together to plant currants. Especially when they’re doing it in a forest garden, early in Spring, when the peaches and wattles are flowering madly and the sap is rising all around. As part of our first forest garden workshop here at Milkwood Farm, [...]

Our forest garden design: the future is forested and foodlike

Over the last couple of months, we’ve been cooking up a re-design of our top food forest with Harris. Once we move into our tinyhouse, this food forest will be right outside our back door. So we want to get serious about making it a gorgeous place that drips with fun and food. Up until [...]

Food forest design time

The main food forest at Milkwood Farm sits above our tinyhouse, in a sheltered, east-facing, sloping paddock, with lots of rocky bits and a sprinkling of useful trees. Not for much longer though. We’re determined to fast-track it into an incredible, luscious forest garden, dripping with fruit, herbs and shady green nooks. Enter Dan Harris-Pascal [...]

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