I have blogged about making Skin Food Moisturiser before, the liquid sort you can put into a pump bottle. This moisturiser recipe is for...

Y’all know I’m into making my own stuff. Well, I think to myself, if it exists on the marketing shelves, I can make it myself. I have...

As a backyard farmer, we often grow Boom or Bust with our veggies. Courgettes or zucchini are one of those abundant crops. While you...

I have just invented a brand new idea! Wash line flags! Silly, I know, but I think this thang might just catch on! “All I want for...

I must admit that I have always been drawn to the idea of sage smudge sticks but have never explored them before. We are lovers of...

We love tea. So does our garden. I make compost tea in a great big repurposed plastic garbage bin. I use an old onion net bag as a...

We have just had a shower dome installed ! Beaut! Always wanted one. It is a Perspex dome installed above the shower, so when inside,...

I don’t love house cleaning. A gardener would much rather spend all their time in the garden if given the choice…….so my housekeeping...

A cornucopia of winter produce Many years ago, I read about CSA’s. Community Supported Agriculture. It’s a concept that supports small...

I love it when I get recipes given to me by friends or family members and they are such a goodie, that I use them over and over again. ...

We have a great big firewood basket, but once it is filled with wood, it is a heavy bugger to carry from the wood store outside to the...

I wanted to share my go-to origami seed envelopes, since I have already shared a post on saving seeds. This is a really quick little...

Simple easy ingredients Cheese, glorious cheese! Who doesn’t love cheese? One of the things we missed when we “went vegan” was cheese. ...

An old Chinese proverb: Have Garden…Will Need Stakes. Okay, I made that up, but I’m sure all gardeners will agree with the sentiment. ...

There are some who forage outside of their garden, and there are some who forage for their garden. I fit into both categories. I love...

I’ve been meaning to write this blog for ever so long! I think I was in such awe since visiting Raglan’s Xtreme Waste Works three years...

Home-Grown Laundry Powder I love living sustainably, and being self-sufficient. I love making things and I have always dabbled at making...

Let me take you down the garden path….. Okay, those queasy ones maybe can pass on this blog. Maybe not your cuppa tea, but here’s the...

During Sustainable Backyards month of March, we usually open up our garden to visitors to see a working Edible Landscape in action. They...

A daily haul of feijoas Feijoas are wonderful Autumn fruits! Every New Zealand house should have a lemon and feijoa tree! Such versatile...