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Frugality, Gleaning, Headline, Household »

[22 May 2012 | 5 Comments | ]
Free Firewood

You can save a lot of money by heating your home with wood, especially if you can get the wood for free. Here’s where I get mine – where do you get yours?

Headline, Permaculture, Preparing Food, Science and Technology »

[29 Apr 2012 | 10 Comments | ]
My Favourite Sustainability and Homesteading Podcasts

Here’s a list of the podcasts I regularly listen to. I’d love it if you could suggest others you think I might like!

Featured, Growing Food »

[26 Apr 2012 | 2 Comments | ]
ANZAC Day 2012 – Granddad’s Garden

A visit to Granddad’s garden on ANZAC Day, and it’s still exactly as it was when I was a toddler.

Featured, Frugality, Keeping Animals, Preparing Food, Recipes »

[19 Apr 2012 | 12 Comments | ]
Head Cheese Recipe

It’s a boiled pig’s head, meat removed and diced, then set in a terrine mould with jelly made from the cooking broth. What’s not to like?!

Featured, Household, Illawarra Councils, Illawarra Organisations »

[20 Mar 2012 | 3 Comments | ]
Illawarra Climate Challenge Launch

The Nature Conservation Council of NSW is bringing the Climate Challenge program to the Illawarra – and it’s free!

Featured, Illawarra Organisations, Video »

[12 Mar 2012 | No Comment | ]

Here’s a great talk by a young girl from our primary school, Grace Mahon:

Grace entered the prestigious LandLearn NSW public speaking competition at the end of last year and she has been selected as a finalist to compete at the Dubbo Beef Spectacular on March 15.

You can read more about the competition at the NSW [...]

Growing Food, Nature »

[16 Feb 2012 | 13 Comments | ]
Corn Eaten By Pests!

I had a beautiful crop of corn growing. Now I have bare cobs. Not happy!

Frugality, Keeping Animals, Recipes »

[9 Feb 2012 | 7 Comments | ]
Pig Trotters In Sweet Vinegar

We’re getting towards the end of the pigs we raised for meat – literally! I’ve never cooked trotters before, so this was an interesting meal.

Growing Food, Preparing Food »

[25 Jan 2012 | 10 Comments | ]
Dehydrating Zucchini

The waves of zucchinis just keep coming from our garden! This year, we’re dehydrating them to preserve them for use throughout the year.

Keeping Animals »

[23 Jan 2012 | 4 Comments | ]
A More Secure Chicken Pen

I’ve now fortified the chicken run, so hopefully we won’t have any more trouble with foxes!