This is one of the places we visited in Tasmania. It's Arthur Circus, a delightful little collection of colonial houses surrounding a...

It's exhilarating and exciting settling in new chickens and setting up a vegetable garden for another year. Of course the chickens requ...

Pasta sauce in the making. It will be a good day today. This morning we're driving over to see Kate at Beautiful Chickens to pic...

I was asked recently how I clean bottles. Of course I use a brush, I use brushes for much of my cleaning and cleaning bottles is no excepti...

It was a late start this year but we've finally got the first plants in the ground. Hanno has been digging and enriching the soil for t...

The weather is cooler here, just right for spending time in the garden planting up some seedlings. Hanno has been adding manures and compos...

You can save quite a bit of money if you learn how to do some basic sewing. Sewing on buttons, mending a torn sleeve, taking up a hem, repl...

It's wonderful having the time to do a bit of preserving when the opportunity arises.  I bought a 10 kg box of tomatoes for $8 on Frida...