HOMEMADE CLEANING RECIPES LAUNDRY Laundry Liquid Makes 10 litres You may add any essential oil of your choice to these homemade cleaners. Oi...

We live in a world where we come in contact with chemicals every day. We have plastic seats in our cars, plastic money, furniture covered wi...

This is our home. I cannot stress enough that simple living is not about a particular geographical location, it is not something that happen...

I'm sure many of you are wondering: "Why make soap when I can buy it cheaply at the supermarket?" My cold process soa...

I nominate the following blogs for the Bloggers for Positive Global Change Award: Towards Sustainability Julie is a stay at home mum to thre...

Wow, what can I say. I was nominated for this by downshifting-path to simplicity and I'm surprised and delighted by it. Thank you. The...

I buy organic flour for my bread. I figure if I'm baking it should be the healthiest bread I can manage. Organic flour is cheapest when ...

I'm fighting to go to work today as my hip is still giving me curry. I hate being sick or incapacitated in any way so I refuse to stay h...

I've been making yeasted breads for a long time now and I think my bread is pretty good, even if I do say so myself. There's always ...

These are are Rhode Island Red chooks. How could you live without chooks in the backyard? Don't answer, I wasn't really asking. ; )...

Being the type of person I am I always read about things before I do them, or soon after. When I had my kids, I read everything I could whil...

Generally one loofah harvest will keep you going all year. I harvested most of the loofahs this morning. I have about 18 of them, bot...

We’ve had a vegetable garden for much of the past 25 years. Gardening is one of those things that I miss when I don’t do it for a few days. ...

This photo gives a good overview of our back verandah. It's a bit untidy so look past that. ; ) You can see our aquaponics tank and grow...

I'll be taking my library books back today - I have this Reader's Digest back to basics book as well as the seed saver's handboo...

Just in case you missed it, there was an interesting article in Time magazine this week: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,16...

We've revived an old ritual, H and I. That of the sit down, talk and enjoy morning tea. No matter what either of us are doing, at around...

I'm really excited about this! I'm starting our sewing circle at the Neighbourhood Centre next Monday - it will be free and we have ...

I thought I'd give those interested in our aquaponics system a bit more info. Aquaponics is an intergrated system of growing fish and or...