A note: this article is partly an extract from The Milkwood Permaculture Living Handbook – from chapter one, Observe and Interact. If you’re not familiar with this book, you might like to start by reading the Habits, Hope and the Power of and/also … or the What is Permaculture extracts. Just an idea. These thoughts…
Companion planting isn’t about strict rules – it’s about principles, observation, and learning from your garden – it’s about understanding how different plants can work together, creating a garden that is more resilient, productive, and a joy to tend. Carrots, silverbeet, and flowering coriander doing their companionable thing in our garden is a perfect example…
Can you grow mushrooms in bamboo? Why yes, you can. Oyster mushrooms can be grown in all kinds of containers – it just depends where you are, and the resources around you. But there’s a few things to think about, before you choose… here’s some options for low-waste mushroom cultivation… Which containers are good to…
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I can’t wait to get into this Permaculture Holiday Reads book-stack. All are books that I’ve been waiting to read for MONTHS, or have just come out, or just been discovered (by me)…. Like many folks, I sleep beside an aspirational book-stack. The tower-like shrine to ‘one day, when I have a few hours spare’…
MAKE COMPOST NOT WORK! Collected gardening columns and art from the Idler magazine, 2005 – 2024 by Graham Burnett. We are super-excited to launch our Kickstarter campaign for Graham’s latest book, due to be published in January 2025. ;