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Milkwood: Real skills for down-to-earth living

Milkwood: Real skills for down-to-earth living

Current price: $36.99
Publication Date: January 15th, 2019
Publisher:
Murdoch Books
ISBN:
9781743365106
Pages:
304

Description

The skills that we learn bind our lives together. Do you want to know how to grow your own food? Or how to keep bees? How to forage for edible seaweed along the shoreline, or wild greens down by the stream? Maybe you're curious about growing mushrooms or how to grow the perfect tomato. You're invited to make these skills your own. Designed to be read with a pot of tea by your elbow and a notebook beside you, Milkwood is all you need to start living a more home-grown life. From DIY projects to wild fermented recipes, the in-depth knowledge and hands-on instruction contained in these pages will have your whole family fascinated and inspired to get growing, keeping, cooking and making. Milkwood is the name of Kirsten Bradley and Nick Ritar's first farm as well as their school where anyone can learn skills for down-to-earth living. Kirsten, Nick and a team of educators offer courses on topics contained in this book as well as permaculture design, natural building and much more. Kirsten and Nick live on a small regenerative farm near Daylesford, Australia, where many things from the sprouted grain they feed their chickens to ingredients that make up dinner is homegrown.

About the Author

Kirsten Bradley is the co-founder of Milkwood with Nick Ritar – together they've been teaching permaculture design and skills for living like it matters, to folks across Australia and beyond, for more than 15 years. Kirsten and Nick's book Milkwood: Real Skills for Down-to-Earth Living was published by Murdoch Books in 2018. When she's not helping folks to create meaningful change at the home and community scale through their everyday actions, Kirsten can be found tending her backyard ecosystem of veggies, bees, berries and family, on melukerdee country in lutruwita/Tasmania.