It doesn’t need to be a big campfire, if that’s not where you’re at, this season. It can be just a few sticks. That’s fine. Solstice campfires take many forms. Down to the beach, firewood in hand. To make a fire. To sing the shortest day of the year down, through the setting sun, down…
This season I’ve been working on a progressive pickle process, because that’s how it needs to be done around here, if we want pickles aplenty come winter. Pickles – specifically, cucumber pickles – are very important in our house. They go with, and ontop of, many meals and snacks, and are a blessing in their…
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Welcome to the first year of our garden, in which we transformed our backyard from a grassy slope into a terraced land of veggies, fruit trees, berries and chickens, with so many flowers in between that the bees are spoilt for choice. We live on un-ceded melukerdee country in southern lutruwita Tasmania, on a 1/2…
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Over the years, we’ve lived in a few off-grid houses in cold climates. And in these houses, we relied on wood energy to warm our house, cook our food AND heat our hot water – on many a cold and rainy day. Each time, our woodstove was at the core of our kitchen. I loved…
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We've been making herbal tea posies from our garden, to leave on sick or isolating friends' doorsteps... community care in a jar. Here's what goes in.
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