Who?  Me! Hanno's been been hit with a bad cold this week so things have been quietly busy here.  I'm hoping  I don't ...

Last Friday morning we set off up the mountain to buy vegetable seeds at Green Harvest. After driving through Maleny we were surrounded by ...

This season's first tomato harvest. I pick these when they're green to avoid the tomato grub. We can leave the cocktail tomatoes ...

Many of us are trying to cut back on plastic by looking for substitutes for plastic wrap to cover food that is stored in the fridge....

Sundays feel different here, I guess they always have, but the reality of it is that Sunday is just another day. There are no weekends when...

Gracie, our beautiful Scotch Terrier, will be one year old soon. It seems like only yesterday when we picked her up from the airport aft...

Potatoes are a very popular vegetable in Australia. Those of us of European descent who cook our traditional family food often use potatoe...

The weekend 10 percent discount sale at Ecoyarns for Down to Earth readers was very successful. Salihan at Ecoyarns asked me to pass on...

We've been busy here the past week or so. We had plumbers in looking at an ongoing problem, which they finally fixed. A few visitors dr...

I used to be known as a bit of a dish cloth obsessive.  If the real truth is known, I still am. 🙂 How can you not love something you can m...

We're in the middle of our winter work at the moment.  Now that we're older, it's easier to do most of our garden and outdoor m...