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 [...]
January 13, 2012 – 3:14 pm
Right now Nick’s in the the middle of teaching Milkwood Permaculture’s annual summer Urban Permaculture Design Certificate in Sydney, which is always a fabulous two weeks. This year, we have the wonderful Cathy X as one of the students, and she’s documenting the process in pictures. I love this course. It’s so similar, yet so [...]
December 3, 2011 – 8:22 am
Recently the fabulous Hannah Moloney interviewed me about being a female Australian farmer. Hannah has just returned from a stint in Africa with ActionAid working with women farmers and researching where they sit in relation to community food security (right at the center, of course). Now Hannah is back Down Under, she’s featuring some truly [...]
November 27, 2011 – 6:00 am
Recently we had Cam Wilson up at Milkwood Farm doing some guest teaching on our Spring Permaculture Design Certificate. And he brought his lovely family along too! All the kids gave the sandpit a goodly workout while Cam worked his magic in the classroom. We became friends with Cam when he was up north managing [...]
November 24, 2011 – 6:00 am
… we’ve decided to sign up all our Permaculture Design Course students to their local permaculture group as part of their course with us. Which should do a couple of useful things: help create community, and also create abundance in the form of membership fees for the groups! Mind you, not everyone is lucky enough [...]
November 12, 2011 – 6:00 am
If you want you breath taken away by wild nature, incidentally filmed on an all-girl canoeing adventure, here you are: a spectacular starling swarm. Simply beautiful. Part of a Permaculture Design Certificate is dedicated to patterns in nature and how we can use them in design. This pattern recognition flows through all things. But sometimes [...]
November 7, 2011 – 6:00 am
“Some call it permaculture, we prefer p-culture… ya dig? p-culture, starring the wonderful Miss Tasia Zalar, is a series of 10 segments designed to get youthful peeps actively involved in reducing their impact on the environment.” Great! Bring on the teen permacool. I mean p-culture… sorry dudes. Then there’s the Permaculture challenge, which is 50 [...]
October 26, 2011 – 6:00 am
Adam Grubb and Dan Palmer are some of the most accomplished urban permaculture designers I know. Aside from being the founding forces of the Permablitz movement, they also design professionally – creating functional, edible awesomeness in small suburban spaces through their Melbourne Permaculture business, Very Edible Gardens (VEG). We’ve snared Adam as a special guest [...]
October 8, 2011 – 6:00 am
This Spring we’re lucky enough to have six new permaculturalists living at our farm. Our Spring 2011 permaculture interns are here for 12 weeks of designing, doing and digging. And they are some of the most amazing folks I have had the pleasure to meet since we’re been here. Apart from being formidable individuals, these [...]
