Garden Dreaming – The First Year of our New Garden

Welcome to the first year of our garden, in which we transformed our backyard from a grassy slope into a terraced land of veggies, fruit trees, berries and chickens, with so many flowers in between that the bees are spoilt for choice. We live on un-ceded melukerdee country in southern lutruwita Tasmania, on a 1/2…

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What Is Permaculture?

At its heart, The Milkwood Permaculture Living Handbook is about helping you cultivate habits for living with meaningful connection and purpose. Because this is how we cultivate hope. But how to get started with habits that are truly world-changing? And how do you ground yourself and create resolve to keep going in the face of…

From Disused Tennis Court to a Productive Vegie Garden

We explore a productive vegie garden that once played host to family tennis tournaments. For Jaclyn Crupi and her partner Andrew Stewardson, transforming a disused tennis court into a productive vegie garden was about finding a design that balanced history, happiness and health.  In 2019, Jaclyn and Andrew acquired half an acre on the Mornington […]