There will be some workshops at the Maleny Neighbourhood Centre you may be interested in if you're living close by. Sonya, from Permacu...

We were vegetarian for quite a few years, maybe seven or eight, and went back to meat after reading  Nourishing Traditions.   When I started...

Our laundries are mainly used for washing clothes and household fabrics but they also hold a place of importance as your home cleaning head...

I used to think housekeeping and the mindset that supported it was demeaning and dependence-driven. In those days of high-flying Rhonda, po...

Hanno's surgery went very well yesterday. We're going back for a checkup this morning but it all looks good and he's feeling fi...

Most of the work I do here at home is food related with cooking, preserving, baking and growing taking a good slice of my ordinary days. It...

I've never been a lover of the colour yellow. I'm more a blue, green or lavender kind of gal. But now I'm surprising myself in t...

Using leftovers to create another meal has been part of my food management for as long as I can remember. One of our favourite meals is cor...

 I received an email from a reader a day or so ago and I thought the answer might be of interest to others as well.  In part, the email aske...

I can feel the seasons starting to change. I wonder if you feel it too.  Hoping Maremma bodyguards will help save bandicoots Lucy Spar...

I live a charmed life. We live here, on this fertile land with a creek running by it, at the end of a one-lane street, surrounded by a few ...

When I first started living simply, I didn't know what I was doing.  I had no plan and no recipe for success but I knew what I didn'...

About a month ago I wrote about a photographer coming to our home to take photos for the Women's Weekly . Well yesterday, the edition I...

Travelling around as we have this past year, we're met hundreds of people and thoroughly enjoyed the experienced. Many of the conversat...

I am continuing on from yesterday's post. There were many comments about how we are sometimes treated when we live the way we do, some...

This is a Friday photo feature that anyone with a blog can join. It opens the door to us sharing our lives with these photos and gives us a...

Writing a book and gaining an amount of public exposure because of it has been rewarding but also had a down side. The down side is that I ...