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Rooftop Chickens 26 Aug 2013 | 01:00 am
Chickens are an excellent addition to any small-scale growing system, if you have the space. They recycle green waste and produce two very valuable things for the small-scale gardener: fresh eggs, and...
Natural Beekeeping Q&A next weekend in Sydney 23 Aug 2013 | 07:05 am
Being a beginner beekeeper involves asking an awful lot of questions. In a good way. You are, after all, taking on the stewardship of a super-organism composed of between 40 and 80,000 individual bees...
The Spare 20 Aug 2013 | 03:15 pm
We live on a rapidly changing planet, and we know the world that our children will wake up to as adults will not look like this one. There are many reasons for this change, and many elephants in that...
Designing Like a Forest (we’re hooked) 12 Aug 2013 | 01:00 am
Last Autumn we hosted a Forest Garden Design Intensive with Dave Jacke at Milkwood Farm. It was a truly awesome experience, and it changed the way many of us at Milkwood (and beyond) approach permacul...
Green manures, earth floors and the inaugural mushroom 9 Aug 2013 | 01:00 am
Spring will be here any second now… I can smell it through the sleet. Ok maybe it’s a little while off still. But the wattles are flowering! And so are the fruit trees, down in the valley. The green ...
Grower Profile: Michael Hewins, Milkwood Farm 5 Aug 2013 | 01:00 am
We think it is high time we started introducing you to the network of awesomeness that is the growers and doers we work with, and who we take inspiration from. These are the folks we know and love wh...
What grows better in Soil Blocks? 31 Jul 2013 | 01:00 am
Soil blocks are a nifty technique for starting seedlings in a ‘pot-less’ way. They’re DIY home-pressed blocks of soil with a seed inside, and their construction is just sturdy enough to stay together ...
New Allan Savory podcast & a free webinar 30 Jul 2013 | 01:00 am
We are getting pretty excited about welcoming Allan Savory to Australia in a couple of weeks to enliven a discussion about how Holistic management can play a key role in our future land regeneration s...
Milkwood in a (video) nutshell 29 Jul 2013 | 01:00 am
So just what is Milkwood? Who are we? What do we do? And why do we do it? All the answers, in a nutshell, are in this video… This summary of Milkwood was made last season during our forest garden de...
Looks like this ‘mushrooms in a holey bucket’ idea is catching on… 26 Jul 2013 | 01:00 am
Last winter, Nick decided that the best way to grow oyster mushrooms for us would be in a bucket. Plastic bags of mushrooms are great and fine, but they’re one-use only, and result in wastage with eve...
