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24.01.2022 Monday is CSA (community supported agriculture) box day at our house, this summer! . A box of spring goodness for the week, grown just up the road by The Early Bird Market Garden - we eat whatever we get in the box, and make it work. . Which is just the way I like to cook - use what’s in the garden and make it work. Or this season, till we get our place sorted, whatever’s in the box. I love how this forces me to do things I wouldn’t otherwise have thought of on a Monday nigh...t - like making a big jar of lacto-fermented whole radishes, which is what’s about to happen now. . A 3% brine should do it, a bit of fennel seed, and we’ll be eating these for lunch in a week . Thankyou for the beautiful local food, EarlyBird crew! . . #csa #communitysupportedagriculture #localfoodsystem #foodjustice #fairfood #permaculture #yum See more
24.01.2022 Making Seed Balls: for getting things growing in unlikely places - a link to this how-to is below... . Seedball wha? Yep, they are just what they sound like - a small ball of clay and soil, with seeds inside. NOT for eating, but for planting. Seedballs are incredibly easy to make, and are a rather excellent way to get things growing in areas that don’t usually have much plant growth. . The basic idea of a seedball is that you make it, distribute it to marginal areas whi...ch are hard to get the right plants established in (usually because of lack of water) and wait. The beauty of this technique is that the seedballs will sit there, protected by their clay shell, and then, in a large rain event - melt, and germinate (hopefully). This same rain event has hopefully created enough soil moisture for those seeds to establish. . And the kicker is because it’s easy to make a LOT of seedballs at once, the chances of some of them succeeding is pretty high. . We’ve used seedballs to seed very arid zones to native pioneer tree and fodder species with great success. Or, you could use wildflower seeds, or whatever works for where you live. Go have a read. It’s a great weekend activity. . https://www.milkwood.net//making-seed-balls-for-getting-t/ . * We acknowledge that permaculture owes the roots of its theory and practice to traditional and Indigenous knowledges, from all over the world. We all stand on the shoulders of many ancestors - as we learn, and re-learn, these skills and concepts. We pay our deepest respects and give our heartfelt thanks to these knowledge-keepers, both past and present. . #seedballs #permaculture #aridgardening #shelterbelts #regeneration #howto See more
23.01.2022 Street libraries - how to get one started, some tips n tricks to help you along the way!
23.01.2022 GIFT BUNDLE: Permaculture Living course + Milkwood book... Give the gift of skills - until December 24th, you can gift a place in our next Permaculture Living online course - and we'll throw in a free signed copy of our best-selling Milkwood book, too. Wow, what an amazing gift! Well done, you.
21.01.2022 Hey lovelies, guess what? We've launched a little online store... including signed copies of this excellent kids book that Kirsten wrote for Gestalten last year. So now you can buy a signed (and personalised) copy of the Milkwood Book AND also gorgeous and useful items like Easy Peasy (signed) , RetroSuburbia, and the all-important 2021 Permaculture Principles calendar, all in the one spot. To celebrate (we've been trying to do this little store for a while - but life, and... 2020, and other things - yes, I know you know just what I mean)... we're giving away 3 copies of Easy Peasy in our next newsletter, which comes out tomorrow. And yes, we will post to you if you win, no matter where in the world you may be. Sign up here, if you like: www.milkwood.net/subscribe You're welcome . * We acknowledge that permaculture owes the roots of its theory and practice to traditional and Indigenous knowledges, from all over the world. We all stand on the shoulders of many ancestors - as we learn, and re-learn, these skills and concepts. We pay our deepest respects and give our heartfelt thanks to these knowledge-keepers, both past and present.
21.01.2022 Word Up is a program that shares some of the diverse languages of First Nations peoples of Australia one word at a time. This episode has as a guest Ian Waina, a Kwini man from Kalumburu community in the far North-East corner of the Kimberley.
16.01.2022 You can grow mushrooms in lots of different ways. And once you demystify the process, it’s not that different to growing plants - it’s just a different kingdom. And if you get hooked, no garden or home will ever be without edible mushrooms again. @shellwalker17 is well underway!... Our Blue Shimeji mushrooms are coming on by the bucketload. Growing food at home is simple and rewarding, especially when there are such great resources out there for us. The mushroom chapter of the Milkwood book is easy to follow, informative and inspiring! And it works!!! The really great thing about growing mushrooms is that you can do it pretty much anywhere, no matter where you live. And then...you can eat them. Share them. Ferment or pickle them! What’s your favourite mushroom recipe?
13.01.2022 Friday afternoon in our kitchen... . It’s a ‘filming week’, this week. Which means mushrooms absolutely everywhere, lots of demonstrating all things inoculation, weird piles of straw in the hallway, lunchtime picnics (slightly staged but still delicious), lots of mess and ALSO getting closer to sharing our mushroom growing course with y’all. . Big thanks to team Milkwood, especially @isisstpierre for wrangling everything and everyone, and our filmmaker @laravanraay ... ... . And we even got to shoot a bit of this weeks lessons in our new kitchen, which makes me very happy. . I think it’s going to be 5-mushroom pizza on the menu for dinner tonight... . . #nowastemushroomcultivation #allthemushrooms #onlinecourse #milkwoodmushrooms See more
12.01.2022 Absolutely worth a watch: Indigenize! A series of broadcasts by A Growing Culture, a US nonprofit empowering the sustainable agriculture movement by highlighting traditional and alternative farm practices across the world.
11.01.2022 Back in the game! Lacto-fermented dill pickles, here we come. . As per @sandorkraut ‘s directions we always stick with 3 tablespoons of salt per litre of water for the brine - this is about 5.4% and does the trick in 14 days. A salty, sour, whole dill pickle results... which is absolute heaven on a stick, in our books. . Don’t forget your vine leaves for tannin (helps keep the pickles crunchy) and at least two heads of garlic in the crock also, because garlic.... . Big thanks to @fat_pig_farm Sadie for growing and gifting these gorgeous gherkins, and also to chef Rob for deciding he’d done enough pickles for one week which meant we scored these leftovers (yr cheque’s in the mail, Rob)... . Can you tell I’m excited? YAY DILL PICKLES, WE’VE MISSED YOU. Only two weeks till crunch-town, oh I can barely wait . . #wildfermentation #dillpickles #overexcited #picklelife See more
10.01.2022 Elderflower everything, at the moment. Vinegar, cordial, shrub, ferment, syrup. If you live where this is flowering currently, and there’s rain forecast (like there is where we live) get outside and grab some! More pollen (which can wash away in rain) means more flavour and goodness for you and your brews. . Don’t forget to snip the stems off, it’s the flowers that are the edible part . . And here's a bunch of things to do with them - https://www.milkwood.net//making-wild-...fermented-elderflow/ . Enjoy! . * We acknowledge that permaculture owes the roots of its theory and practice to traditional and Indigenous knowledges, from all over the world. We all stand on the shoulders of many ancestors - as we learn, and re-learn, these skills and concepts. We pay our deepest respects and give our heartfelt thanks to these knowledge-keepers, both past and present. . #milkwoodbook #elderflower #wildfood See more
10.01.2022 With their commitment to social justice and education, these State & Territory 2021 Senior Australians of the Year are truly awesome.
09.01.2022 Radical hope is also about preparedness, so we’ve gathered together some excellent bushfire readiness resources for you to read and use in this cooler, wetter La Niña year. Thinking tools, planting lists, and learnings to sift through and act apon! Let us know how you go x
08.01.2022 How to follow Indigenous protocol when walking on country.
08.01.2022 So good to see new foragers blossoming in laneways and all around ------------------------ @littlenestingtree, a student of our #PermacultureLivingCourse, writes: When we decided to sign up to the @milkwood_permaculture online course I popped my thinking cap on and decided to make a start with the things I already knew. ... I know very basic wild foods, so we set out to start collecting what I knew I could identify and was safe for my family to consume. We started with some wild fennel seeds - they are easy to identify and smell like aniseed or liquorice. Today we harvested the seeds. They are delicious baked on sourdough bread, great for a cuppa tea and there are many other uses for this abundant seed. Well done, @littlenestingtree . We can’t wait to see what else you find. . . . We acknowledge that permaculture owes the roots of its theory and practice to traditional and Indigenous knowledges, from all over the world. We all stand on the shoulders of many ancestors - as we learn, and re-learn, these skills and concepts. We pay our deepest respects and give our heartfelt thanks to these knowledge-keepers, both past and present.
07.01.2022 Did you know a kids version of David Holmgren's RetroSuburbia is launching this month? Jump on the livestream launch on Sunday 29 November of Our Street + Permaculture Action Cards
06.01.2022 There’s an important post over at A Growing Culture today - go have a read. . A little while ago we started adding a ‘acknowledgment of knowledge origins’ paragraph (it's still a work in progress) to what we publish and do, based on some of the same thinking mentioned in the above post (plz go read the whole thing tho, not just this square)... . We all have a long way to go and a lot to unpack, learn, re-learn and act apon, but learn we shall. It will take us and our children... lifetimes to do. But it is also the only way forward, if we want a truly just world. . . * We acknowledge that permaculture owes the roots of its theory and practice to traditional and Indigenous knowledges, from all over the world. We all stand on the shoulders of many ancestors - as we learn, and re-learn, these skills and concepts. We pay our deepest respects and give our heartfelt thanks to these knowledge-keepers, both past and present. . #alwayswasalwayswillbe
04.01.2022 And just like that, it's a brand new year - finally. Are we glad to see you, 2021! After last year's rough ride, we've got something to help set your course for this new year - a free worksheet to help you work out and set some personal goals for 2021. Because this goal setting stuff is a powerful tool for personal change - you'll be much better armed to make informed decisions, both large and small. Our hope is that together, with you, we can get some serious community-cultivating, Earth-positive action happening this year. Big actions and small actions. Everyday action and long-term action. And it starts with each of us articulating and voicing our personal goals. Of how we will each make change, and take care. Both at home, and out in the big wide world. So grab your guide, and let's do this together?
02.01.2022 If you're near Margaret River in WA, you might like to check out the Festival of Forgotten Skills - Sunday November 29th - Fair Harvest Permaculture
01.01.2022 For so many of us, it's been tough to connect with loved ones in 2020. Like us, you might be currently dreaming up ways you can say: Thinking of you, or I love you, or let's do this together, even while we're apart. There's writing letters, making handmade gifts to send and baking your best-ever biscuits to share (along with the recipe!).... Or, if you're needing a ready-made gift packed full of great skills and ideas for the whole family, hop across to our new little shop - there's some great books (for adults + kids), a 2021 permaculture calendar and more - you can even gift an online course at the moment! We've created a special end-of-year package too - a signed copy of Easy Peasy, a 2021 Permaculture calendar and a fair-trade Milkwood tote, with free shipping across Australia. Hoorah! Click on the pic to make your way to our shop. Wishing you lots and lots of bright days ahead, from the Milkwood Crew.
