I'm happily back into my bread routine again. It didn't take much to kick start me into getting serious about it. The only shop bre...

I remember the first day I walked into this house and then roamed around the back yard. We went down to the flowing creek, looked at the ma...

We've lived here for 18 years, longer than we've lived in any other home. Before we arrived here, we'd moved 22 times. We'r...

… it has become too easy in our time to assume that childrearing, housekeeping, and caregiving, along with all the varieties of manual work...

Well, after giving myself a week to do it, I finally got to the pantry cleaning yesterday. I usually leave things like that to the last min...

Wandering around our backyard, sitting under the elder tree, watching the birds fly and admiring the vegetables in the straight rigid lines...

During the week I had a question from a young woman, Ms J, asking: As with all of us life tends to increase its demands at different times,...

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...

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...