In mid September we’ll be running an Intro to Market Gardening course which will be two days of hands-on skills in our very own market garden! This course is designed for folks with a little gardening experience, who want to skill up on how to grow a serious amount of vegetables.
At Milkwood Farm, we went from a patch of bare ground to two tonnes of organic produce in a season, and you can too!
This course would suit anyone who has a bit of growing knowledge, but who dreams of producing enough organic veggies to feed a number of families either in a community context or a small market garden enterprise. Read More »
November 21, 2007 – 8:05 pm
Water is precious. And hard to find, around here. The process of designing hydrology into a site so that whatever water is available is used intelligently and for multiple purposes before it is allowed to seep out of the soil and into the creek is a tricky task. We have spend nigh on a year now, just watching the rainfall and the landscape and thinking and planning how we would best design Milkwood to make the most of our limited rainwater catchment.
How we could harvest that water and divert it across the landscape so that it seeps in gently and slowly, creating places for things to grow, rather than have the water pelting down the cleared gullies on either side of Milkwood, to swell the eroded creek and rush off downstream before the land and the soil has had a chance to benefit from it. Read More »
September 17, 2007 – 11:26 am
Just a note that we are rip-roaring ready to go on our ‘Introduction to Permaculture’ courses, which will be held in Sydney, Mudgee and Kiama before Christmas 2007.
We’re both really looking forward to cutting our teeth on teaching sustainable system design and getting whoever wants to learn worded up on the basics of Permaculture as it applies to the Australian environment.
The course also includes two days of great food and the inevitable sharing of information, making of connections, and the beginning of many conversations – all the good things in life, really…
The first course is in Sydney at the end of October, followed by Mudgee in November, and Kiama in December. It’s basically two days of information, techniques and principles of designing systems for human habitation which result in the absolute minimum impact on the surrounding biosphere, by use of techniques that make things easier for everyone to live, eat and work sustainably (and are totally funky and not arcadian in the least)… Read More »
