The latest batch of Milkwood permaculture design students are currently hard at it in Sydney, taking their Permaculture Design Certificate part-time with the fabulous Alexia Martinez. I thought I’d share some of their latest permaculture designs… These designs are all the student’s first full permaculture design, undertaken using a place they know well as the [...]
Nick was asked by International Permaculture Day 2012 to video his take on permaculture, so here it is. Recorded stealthily during naptime, to avoid the otherwise ever-present soundtrack of a joyful 3 year old. This International Permaculture Day we’re heading to the city to run an Earthbag bench workshop, but there’s a lot of other [...]
We’re very excited to announce that Hannah Moloney will be joining Nick + guests to deliver our Urban Permaculture Design Certificate in Sydney in July! Hannah is a bombshell, in more ways than one. She’s an urban change-maker, composter, community facilitator, teacher, aid worker, writer and permaculture designer. I mean, the girl set up a [...]
In honor of International Women’s Day 2012, we thought we’d pay tribute to just a couple of the amazing permaculture women we know. Some of them are well known, and some of them are not. But they are all fabulous, and they’re the tip of the iceberg. It’s been a pleasure and an honor to [...]
February 22, 2012 – 9:42 am
Join us at Milkwood Farm for our annual Field Day on 1 April 2012. Come explore our fabulous small ‘beyond organic’ farm and education center, and sit down with us for a delicious lunch made with organic produce from our farm. Come learn about permaculture, growing organic food on a community scale, Warré beekeeping, natural [...]
February 15, 2012 – 6:00 am
Just a note that we’re running a part-time Permaculture Design Course in Sydney that starts on the weekend of the 17th March. It’s in a one day a week format (you chose from Saturday or Sunday class, no class on the Easter weekend), and it’s going to be great. This will be our third part-time [...]
February 12, 2012 – 6:00 am
Here’s a great video of Craig Sponholtz explaining his guidelines for watershed restoration. As with much of permaculture design, it’s all about expanding the edges of fertility, and starting with what you have. Which, is the case of re-hydrating a landscape, is the wet spots! It’s important to have options for fixing erosion and repairing [...]
January 30, 2012 – 6:00 am
So here we have it – two weeks of our recent urban Permaculture Design Certificate, in 160 seconds! And what an amazing two weeks of learning and thinking and designing and digging and tasting and doing it was… Over the two weeks the PDC students worked their way through an intense curriculum of permaculture theory [...]
January 29, 2012 – 6:00 am
Permaculture and Regenerative Agriculture are fortunately two fields that have lots of great resources. Books, DVDs, you name it. But where do you start? Which to read first? I thought I’d share our most-thumbed favorites. We have this crate of books that travels to each Permaculture Design Course as the ‘student library’, and those books [...]
January 20, 2012 – 6:00 am
More beautiful shots by Cathy X from our current Urban Permaculture Design Certificate that Nick is teaching in Sydney. Featuring Michele Margolis’ amazing urban permaculture garden, Adam Grubb teaching soil, and permaculture design! And mini bulldozers, of course…
