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

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

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. ...

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

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

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

Did you know that in the Doctrine (teachings) of Signatures (Sign of Nature) of Wholefoods (healthy, untampered with), avocados are the...

A tisket, a tasket, a ripe and yellow basket!! Who said you couldn’t grow bananas in a non-tropical location? Yes, they get hammered by...

Rhubarb is easy to divide up after a couple of years. Okay, I am super excited about Rhubarb and have already waxed lyrical over it’s...

Very healthy Nasturtium and Kawakawa Pesto Yes, you heard right! I make basil pesto in summer, parsley pesto in Autumn, and Nasturtium...

Mid March/April is Olive Time. It’s the time to start picking olives, preparing them and bottling them. It is quite an exciting time and...

I’ve always been interested in making my own personal care and household products. This way, I know what goes into them…..no harsh...

Zucchini Rampicante, which can grow up to one meter in length. We have a whole heap of courgettes growing in the garden at this time of...

Here’s a beauty……when your basil is growing profusely and you can’t use it up quick enough, this is a great way to preserve your basil...

You know the saying….feed a starving man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach him to fish and you feed him for a lifetime…..well,...

Great big ornamental leaves. Rhubarb. It’s a mouth bending tongue twister! You can’t say it without doing a bit of mouth yoga! And it’s...

Let’s talk deodorant. Back when my son was just 14yrs old, he spent nearly a year on the couch, cradling his head from crippling...

We went on holiday for two weeks and returned to found we had left a Sourdough Seed Loaf in our fridge. It was perfectly fine, albeit a...

Shave the beeswax for quicker melting time. No need for expensive, single-purposed, artificially scented leather and wood conditioners....