Milkwood: Real skills for down-to-earth living

Great book with superb information on tomatoes mushrooms and bee keeping!

I bought this book because I had thumbed through my friends and couldn’t believe how informative it was! No junk, just real solutions! A must have for any home gardener who wants to take it to the next level.

Beautiful book! Could be a coffee table book, beautiful photos. Lots of good information. Delightful to read. Limited vegetables but lots of info.

I haven’t read it yet, but it looks like a beautiful well-presented book with lots of photos.My partner and I recently read RetroSuburbia by David Holmgren which we really enjoyed, and we thought we’d continue in the same vein with this book. David Holmgren’s “RetroSurburbia” had a lot of breadth, so now I’m looking forward to getting into more depth on the five specific topics covered in the book, which are: growing tomatoes, cultivating mushrooms, natural beekeeping, foraging seaweed and foraging wild food. I wouldn’t rate myself as particularly adept at any of those, though I’m probably strongest on foraging wild food, and I guess most keen to learn more about growing tomatoes. My partner is particularly interested in growing mushrooms. I knew that Nick Ritar and Kirsten Bradley were proficient at cultivating mushrooms (as I know them personally and I see their videos and courses on social media), so having that topic covered in this book was one of the main reasons we decided to buy it. We look forward to reading it, and we’re starting it today!

Beautiful book with amazing information, full colour and gorgeous quality!

Not quite what I expected, but still an interesting read

I bought this book for my daughter who has just bought 10 acres in Tasmania. I now want a copy for myself. Milkwood concentrates on just a few items one might grow, like tomatoes, mushrooms and keeping bees. The information on each topic is so comprehensive I think you could be an expert in those areas if all suggestions and instructions were implemented.

Very nicely put together and really good that it is Australian based. Just would love to see more!