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Holistic Decision Making: 5 Things with Dan Palmer
Making great decisions. Who doesn’t want to learn how to do that? In our permaculture designs, in our families, our projects, and for ourselves on a deeply personal level. Enter Holistic Decision...
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All About Feijoas: growing, harvesting + recipes
Hooray, it’s feijoa season! Perfumed green fruits like no other, and the final harvest of our autumn. Here’s a few tips for growing, harvesting and eating them, including our favourite recipes. The...
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Permaculture Futures: Emmanuela Prigioni, Lyttleton Stores
Lyttleton Stores is a little piece of Blue Mountains magic, with community at its heart. A super inspiring example of what a small-town cooperative can be – local organic grocery, community gallery,...
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Natural Beekeeping: a Principles Based Approach
Chapter three in Milkwood is all about Natural Beekeeping, and how you can use a principles-based approach to keep bees at home, safe and well, in a range of hive designs. But why natural beekeeping?...
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Making: Wild Fermented Elderflower Soda
It’s elderflower season, finally! The gullies + back lanes around our town are awash with their splashes of lacy whiteness, and all the goodness they bring. Starting with wild elderflower soda, our...
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The Milkwood Kids Seaweed Guide
Looking for something to do these holidays? Why not get to know your local seaweeds and the ecosystems that they live in! With our free kids seaweed guide – from us, to you. This guide came about as a...
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Milkwood Autumn Courses: Beekeeping, Mushrooms & more
Keen to make 2019 the year you finally start keeping bees? Growing mushrooms? Begin your garden? Or maybe even take the plunge and turn your love of gardening into a livelihood? Here you go, friend....
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Elderberry Everything: wine, vinegar, medicine + more
If you forage just one thing from the wilds (or your backyard) each year, please let it be elderberry. Free medicine, wine and dessert vinegar could all be yours. Such an incredible plant! The Elder...
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Good Books for Troubled Times
In the wake of Australia’s recent election, many around us have been asking ‘what can we do now’? It’s time to research, act and organise as a community, my friends. With good books for troubled times....
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Permaculture Living – our new online course
Well folks, here we go – our first online course, Permaculture Living, is finally out in the world. It feels like we’ve been working on this new course for EVER and we’re so happy to be able to...
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Climate Ready Communities: Resources for Radical Hope
Well, here we all are. In the climate crisis we were all hoping to avoid. It’s time to muster your community, and get to work. Where do we start? With inspiring precedents, and with community...
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Radical Hope: Home-Based Ideas for Climate Action
Following on from our last post about climate ready communities, let’s look at some home-level strategies and ideas for radical hope. There are so very many to choose from! First off, if you’ve just...
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How to create a Personal Goal Statement for 2020
Are you ready to make 2020 your year of action? Of everyday climate action, as well as the year that you gather the skills and habits you need to live a permaculture life – one that nourishes you,...
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Video: Digging into the 12 Permaculture Principles
Permaculture principles: 1-6 Need some effective thinking tools to get you started with permaculture living? The 12 permaculture principles, created by David Holmgren, are exactly that. Let’s dig in...
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Learn 5 Wild & Useful Plants Near You
Dandelion, taproot and all… This everyday climate action for Permaculture Living 2020 is all about observing and interacting with your local neighbourhood and landscape – by observing, gathering and...
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How to Pay The Rent
This everyday climate action is very simple, and you can start doing it today. Pay the rent. To the people upon whose traditional lands you live, work and benefit from, each and every day. Hopefully,...
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How To Actively Manage Your House’s Temperature
Here’s an everyday climate action for you that’s super easy, with big effects for both your health and for your carbon footprint, too. Learn to actively manage your house’s temperature – in small but...
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Preparing for a Pandemic: a Permaculture Perspective
‘What should we do in a crisis?’ is a question we get asked a lot, as permaculture educators. In light of the current situation/s, here’s a few thoughts to add to your mix. Preparedness has always...
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How To Research the Life Cycle of One Product You Use Daily
Every product that we buy comes with an impact, especially the ones we buy regularly, and don’t really think about. This everyday climate action is a challenge of observing and interacting with your...
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Video: How to grow Sprouts and Microgreens on your Kitchen Bench
Growing your own nutritious sprouts and microgreens at home is super easy – you don’t even need a garden space. A kitchen bench will do just fine. And the results? Fresh, flavourful sprouts – packed...
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