A peek inside The Milkwood Permaculture Living Handbook

“The Milkwood Permaculture Living Handbook is a guide to improving your home, health and happiness – and the planet – one simple step at a time. Packed with meaningful action for the everyday, it’s full of practical skills and projects – regenerative living for busy people who want to make a positive impact in a…

6 Simple Ways to Start Growing Your Own Food While Renting

Growing your own food is one of the most life-affirming things you can do AND you get to eat delicious veggies as a result. And it’s totally possible, even if you live in a small space or rental, or have a super-tight budget to work within.  To help get you started, Anna Matilda from The…

How to Make a Wild Food Map to Forage Your Local Neighbourhood

A wild food map is a simple way to identify and keep track of all the places where edible weeds, feral fruit, medicinal mushrooms and other yum things grow in your local area – so that, come late summer and autumn, many a happy weekend can be spent finding, picking and eating the bounty. Free,…

15 Ways to Start Permaculture Living in a Rental

So you’ve heard about permaculture living and reckon it sounds great, but aren’t quite sure how to get started while you’re living in a rental? Today, Anna Matilda from The Urban Nanna is going to show us 15 simple things you can try right away, no matter where you live – no garden required either.…

Repair + Renewal With Heart – Making Fine Furniture From Foraged Urban Materials

Last year, Peter Owen unintentionally set himself a challenge: could he furnish his home using discarded flotsam found within his local urban ‘forest’ – the streets and laneways of Sydney? The idea to repair furniture and household items dumped in the streets came as Peter and his wife Claire studied Permaculture Living. The furniture-maker and…

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7 Climate-Positive Ways To Get Started With Permaculture Living

So – you’ve heard of permaculture, but aren’t quite sure what it all means or where to begin? We’ll get you started, with this free guide that outlines seven excellent but super-simple ways to start practising permaculture at your place – wherever in the world you live, and whether you have a backyard veggie patch,…

Milkwood Book Club – Recommendations for Climate-Positive Reads

Welcome to the Milkwood Book Club – the cosiest place on the internet. A sunny spot to curl up in with a really great book and learn a heap of new climate-positive skills while you’re at it. Find a list of books we love below – we add to it regularly. It’s a collection of…

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