Planting Milkwood

Planting Milkwood

Planting Milkwood

Two city kids quit their jobs, pull up stumps and journey to a remote, empty, block of land to start an ultra low impact lifestyle from ...

Our first dam

Milkwood starts getting hydrological...
02/15/08

Surveying the site

Placing the first peg and marking the first contour - it's the first step to realising the Permaculture Design of Milkwood!
01/30/08

How to make compost: Pt.3

and lo, for the compost was composted... the final chapter of Kirsten's exciting maiden composting adventure...
12/28/07

How to make compost: Pt.2

It is time for the turning....
11/21/07

How to make compost: Pt.1

Kirsten makes a compost pile using nick's 'compost calculator' to sort out how much of what to put in...
11/06/07

Solar Power at Milkwood

Kirsten + Nick get their first light globe in the little caravan. And it works! We can see at night!
11/01/07

How to grow Figs from cuttings

Kirsten goes adventuring to an abandoned orchard to source cuttings from a 150 year old fig tree... and pots 'em up....
10/06/07

How to pickle olives Milkwood style

Nick shows you why and how to pickle your very own olives from scratch, with only a bowl, a jar, some salt and an egg.... for step by step ...
10/03/07

Everybody loves lambs

Just a little something featuring our new friends. Taken at Kirwin, the farm next door, in August 2007.
08/23/07

Milkwood 002... Settling in

A little tour of Milkwood... it's daytime... you can see things.
05/03/07

Milkwood 001... Arrival

Kirsten, Nick and Peow the cat leave their comfortable life in coffee-soaked Melbourne for an adventure in sustainability in the Great ...
03/25/07
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