The forecast is for a cold weekend, the bright glare of sunlight has evaporated, leaves are turning yellow and soon the wisteria vine will ...

Hanno bought me an early birthday present - a new camera. :- ) I spent some time yesterday wandering around taking photos and seeing what t...

An email arrived last week asking a question that I know a lot of people think about. There are a couple of different parts to this questio...

I'm longing to return to a state of relaxed normality but it's been a busy few weeks here. We've all been waiting for yesterday...

Making gifts - homemade soap with organic cotton face cloths. Recent research by the American organisation Campaign for Safe Cosmetic...

When I was growing up, my mother, like most other women, did her grocery shopping at what was often called the corner shop. This was a litt...

I'm a strong advocate for slow and simple living but if you had seen me this past week, you would have wondered how slow and simple my ...

Yesterday I wrote about the inside work done in permaculture zones. Today we're focusing on the principles of permaculture and how they...