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During the week a wonderful comment came in on the post about Kevin's Man Made Home. It was from rabidlittlehippy . I started writi...

I'm going a bit bonkers. I woke up an hour ago, felt that I'd had a very restful sleep, lay there for a few minutes listening to t...

On the weekend, me and my sister were talking about a TV program called Kevin's Man Made Home . Kevin McCloud from the Grand Designs pr...

Joel Salatin at Polyface Farm Community by Design Arm knitting - You Tube Scientists urging to halve meat consumption The Australia...

The first of this season's vegetable seeds were planted in trays and then I stopped because of the rain. We had a drought in the last s...

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...

Last week I wrote about vegetable garden preparation, maintenance and production but there are many other parts of gardens that are inter...

Just a quick post to let you know that my dil Sarndra is having a "giveaway" on her Facebook page. Sarndra explains what that is ...

Externalities - A short film (4 mins) by David Suzuki. Thanks to Sarndra for the link. Humanise it - Seth Godin The price we pay How...

We've started luring Jamie into our gardening ways. He had his first trip to the markets with Hanno and his mum on Sunday to buy seedli...