The rate of food wastage in many Western countries, including Australia, is shameful. The current estimation is that about 30 percent of th...

I don't have much time today, unfortunately, so I'll answer the questions raised by yesterday's post and do a bit of blog house...

Many of the skills we need when living simply don't exist in isolation, if you want to get the full measure of these things we do, you ...

March, week 4 in The Simple Home This is the final week in our food and home cooking month. We've been discussing food shopping, sto...

March, week 2 in The Simple Home This week we'll focus on shopping for food and I'm guessing that will mean vastly different thin...

Serving good food from your own kitchen isn't just one thing, it's many. And it doesn't happen once, it's part of your ordi...

I'm queen of my home and here with my king, we grow, make, recycle, mend, bake, ferment, preserve, cook and do as much for ourselves...

Nothing is better than crunching on snow peas while you work in the winter garden. Growing your own food, or even some of it, is an importan...

I had an email from seagreen last week asking: I am getting more and more interested in preserving. I've always done a bit, jams an...

I am so grateful to have such a wonderful group of readers. I don't say this often but your comments really do keep me blogging. When th...