Autumn adventures
Our Permaculture Design Certificate students planting trees on the main swale 'Twas an autumn of harvesting apples, and to a degree, reaping what we had sowed... we may not have brought a crop in at...
View ArticleNew Milkwood Permaculture website
A brief but shameless plug for our brand new website over at www.MilkwoodPermaculture.com.au. Over this winter we've been very busy selecting and organising a bunch of great teachers and courses to...
View ArticleCarriageWorks’ Kitchen Garden Project
Just a wee heads-up that a most encouraging initiative is being launched in Sydney this coming Saturday 6th Feb. Namely CarriageWorks' Kitchen Garden Project. Another nudge in the direction of local...
View ArticleUrban Permaculture Design Course
Nick Ritar teaching an Urban Permaculture course in Sydney last summer Designing Permaculture into inner-city environments is, in some ways, taking things to the heart of the matter. Our cities are so...
View ArticleMilkwood Internships
Tanya + Jesse making a no-dig vegetable bed outside the Milkwood Classroom As part of our skilling-up phase, back in the days before we moved to Milkwood, both Nick and i spent time at various...
View ArticleHow to Make a Wicking Bed
A wicking bed is an excellent technique for growing things in environments where water is scarce, and has two main parts. The bottom half is a contained reservoir filled with gravel and water and the...
View ArticleFRESH movie screening: Sydney May 28th
Milkwood is hosting a screening of new documentary FRESH at 7pm on Friday, May 28th, at Alexandria Park Community Center in Sydney. The screening is free and everyone's welcome. Directions to the venue...
View ArticlePermaculture Design: Quirindi Public School Community Garden
Quirindi School Garden Permaculture Design by Milkwod Permaculture - larger image here Here's a design we did a while back for Quirindi Public School Community Garden. Quirindi Public School is the...
View ArticleSydney Permablitz! Monday 14th June 2010
Please join us this coming Monday for an all-out, fabulous explosion which will create biodiversity, edibility and community along the edge of a football field in Alexandria, Sydney. It's a...
View ArticleThe fire and the fury: Alexandria Permablitz
Hundreds of native tree seedlings, check. Copious quantities of newspaper, check. Bathtub in frame ready to turn into community worm-farm, check. Multiple uteloads of horse-bedding pea-straw, check....
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