Permaculture is a design system started in Australia, originally for permanent agriculture and homesteads, but now the principles have spre...

I got some good news from Penguin yesterday. Down to Earth is being reprinted again. :- ) I've received many emails from people who ha...

If you can't grow vegetables due to having no time, bad health, young children, or no space, the answer for you might be to buy local s...

More than anything else, I am a mother and a worker. Shane and Kerry were 20ish, about to leave home to build their own lives, and although...

So far we've gone through listing our values and working out what our priorities are, claiming our home and some of the financial matte...

I thought it would be fun to do a cash challenge. I want to challenge e veryone to use cash for the rest of the month to see if it helps you...

It will take at least a month to get an accurate idea of what you're spending on non-essentials. It's worthwhile putting the time a...

Let's talk about money today, specifically how we spend our money. Most of us know how much money we make in a month but very few of us...

Sandy made a good point in her comment the other day when she said:  We saved and budgeted hard years ago and cleared the mortgage. That i...

I was asked by a reader the other day why I don't do more posts on budgeting and frugal living. There are three reasons:  The minds...

We've had two days to think about cutting costs and getting into the right frame of mind to start saving money. By know you should hav...

We were really moved by your kind and thoughtful comments yesterday. Hanno thanks you, I do too and though it might sound strange to people...