Now that Autumn’s here, our woolshed is bedecked in produce and garlands… brown onions, red onions, preserves, pickles and all the rest. And it turns out (fortunately) that stringing onions into a garland is actually quite easy.
February 11, 2012 – 6:00 am
Ok this is a downright divergent post, but what the hey – it’s Saturday. I just found a bunch of Hey Girl meme entries on the important things in life – beehives, seed catalogs and compost…
January 15, 2012 – 6:00 am
It seems unbelievable that only 5 months ago our now abundant market garden was a scruffy bare creek flat. But it’s true! And now we’ve got produce coming out our ears, thanks to many fabulous folks coming together to make it so. Up in the hills as we are, it’s a bit of a harsh [...]
November 16, 2011 – 7:44 am
The last danger of frosts have passed – finally. It is officially time to plant tomatoes at Milkwood. And plant them we did. Oh yes, how we did. The plan here is to be awash in tomatoes by early February. We want tomatoes coming out our ears and out our toes. At which point there [...]
October 19, 2011 – 6:00 am
Thanks to the amazing efforts of many forces, I can officially say that we are now feeding everyone at Milkwood Farm from the Organic Market Garden each day! Starting with feasts of fresh rocket, lettuce and pak choi. It’s been an adventure of epic proportions to get to this point. But thanks to our amazing [...]
October 15, 2011 – 6:00 am
This idea combines two of my favorite urban food growing solutions – vertical gardening, and aquaponics. Can they be friends? Of course they can! Charlie from Ecolicious in Sydney has been trialling a funky combo of these techniques in various urban gardens he’s been designing of late. Vertical growing space of edible vegies and herbs, [...]
September 24, 2011 – 6:00 am
I must say that while I’m finding this market garden experiment very exciting, it’s also rather daunting. What are we planting today? What are we planting next week? Where are we going? Who am i and where are my pants? The solution to all this is Allsun Farm’s planting calendar system. Joyce Wilkie devised this [...]
August 24, 2011 – 6:00 am
My first attempt of growing broad beans (or anything for that matter) in something other than a no-dig bed. Not planted in the still-being-pig-tractored market garden, mind you. These beans went into what will become our kitchen garden, next to the woolshed. Joyce sent up the broad bean seed from Allsun Farm, which is great. [...]
August 12, 2011 – 6:00 am
Here comes Spring! I can feel it in my bones. No matter that last night was -1.4ยบ at Milkwood Farm… The blossoms as in bud all around. And that means it’s ground-prep time! Bring on the no-dig gardens and the sheet mulching… Sheet mulching and no-dig gardens have a fair bit of cross-over, and it [...]
