Grow

Backyard Vegetables   - Mushroom Cultivation

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Hands-on
Workshops

The Brainery offers practical workshops and courses in traditional skills for a modern world.  Learn how to grow your own vegetables, raise your own animals such as chickens and bees and indulge in the delights of home cured, baked and fermented foods.  

 

Nurture

Backyard Chickens - Beekeeping

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Skills for a happier, healthier and more self reliant life.

 

Cook

Fermenting - Baking - Curing - Preserving - Cheesemaking

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Practical
Guides

The Brainery is a resource of free information and advice for everyone.  We seek to share solutions  and ideas for self reliance, growing, making and cooking in order for you to live well.  We'd like to invite you to join us in exploring solutions for a more abundant way of life.

 

Make

DIY - Craft

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From The Blog

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Mushroom Foraging In Central Victoria
Mushroom Foraging In Central Victoria
Know Your Mushrooms
Know Your Mushrooms
Permaculture Plantings For Poultry
Permaculture Plantings For Poultry

Upcoming Workshops

 
Fermentation Basics - 3 February 2018
Fermentation Basics - 3 February 2018
 

Instagrams

Sunset walks at the lake
Bearding bees - with all the hot weather we've had this week the bees have assembled on the outside of the hive during the heat. By hanging around on the outside instead of the inside, they decrease the heat load, decrease congestion, and increase the ventilation space.
Ready to compost and discovered this unexpected small flush of oyster mushrooms out of old bag of substrate. 🍄
Best to keep it simple with the tastiest homegrown pink oysters. Cooked up with butter, spring onion and a bit of garlic.
Pink oysters getting close to harvest. Yum! 🍄
Home grown pink oysters on paper pellet substrate - another non sterile tek success.
What do you do when you have a tree load of the most delicious cherries all ripen the day before you leave for Christmas holiday? Give half to friends and neighbours and preserve half in the dehydrator for awesome addition to homemade muesli throughout the year.
Home grown oyster mushrooms first emerging. Experimenting with non sterile technique on paper pellet substrate - so far brilliant.
Spot the peanut like cell in the middle of the frame - a supersedure cell. Like swarm cells, these are entirely vertical but are usually located on the face of the comb. The intention here is to replace the existing queen who they have decided is not up to the job. She may be old, she may be damaged and probably a host of other things of which we are not aware.
Mother and daughter ❤️