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Mid Summer: Berries, plums + treehouse builds
It’s mid summer here at Melliodora. The days are hot and the cicadas sing in the trees all around. It’s a time for berries, plums, treehouse builds + giant zucchinis. We rise early before the heat...
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Natural Building: Passive House, Active People
Building a well designed, passive solar house can mean comfort in both summer and winter, with minimal energy inputs. On the hottest day of summer, it’s comfortable and cool inside. On the coldest...
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Planting a Three Sisters Garden: stacking in space and time
This year we finally got a chance to try out a three sisters garden planting – maize, beans and squash, growing symbiotically. It was an awesome success. Stacking in space and time is one of my...
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Food Co-ops + Collectives: 3 models of community food systems
Starting a community food co-op or collective can begin with something as simple as a shared cup of tea, and a question. How can we access great quality, dry bulk food together? And local fresh veg...
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Winter: Feijoa harvests + bioluminescent mushrooms
The dams are full and the soft green winter grass in the orchard has returned. There’s been feijoa harvests by day and bioluminescent mushrooms by night. The landscape is slowing down. The frost...
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Making an Off-grid DIY Mushroom Fruiting House
Here’s how we made a DIY off-grid mushroom fruiting house – for creating a humid forest simulation chamber, to grow LOTS of mushrooms right on our back porch. You can grow mushrooms in lots of...
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RetroSuburbia: the downshifters guide to a resilient future
This book is dangerous. In its essence, RetroSuburbia invites and inspires us all to stay right where we are. Turning our suburbs upside down, to make the world we want. No need to be moving to the...
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All About Feijoas: growing, harvesting + recipes
Hooray, it’s feijoa season! Perfumed green fruits like no other, and the final harvest of our autumn. Here’s a few tips for growing, harvesting and eating them, including our favourite recipes. The...
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Making Wildwood Tea
Wildwood tea is, in its essence, as individual and as unique as each household that makes it. It’s an expression of place, in a teapot. A warm hug, from the woods where you live – and from all four of...
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Off to the Southern Wilds…
A little bit of news from us – we are moving to Tasmania! Off to the southern wilds… We have been at Melliodora in central Victoria for three years now, and we have learned so much from this beautiful...
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