Self-reliance

One of our favourite colourful root vegetables, the humble beetroot, is a fantastic place to start if you are new to fermenting vegetables. Packed with fibre, folate, manganese, potassium, iron and vitamin C, beetroot can help improve digestive health and lower blood pressure.

If you keep bees, then you will often end up with spent beeswax which is a highly valuable resource but before you can use it, you need to render it to turn it from the beeswax that bees use to the beeswax that we can use. It can seem a bit overwhelming at first but […]

There are many sustainability trends around, often involving purchasing a whole lot of new products that apparently help you to be ‘more sustainable’. But there’s a new trend emerging on social media called Underconsumption Core and it is one Pip agrees with.

If you are fortunate enough to be dripping in limes at the moment, these three recipes will help utilise your stash plus keep the zesty goodness of your limes available year around.

Want to start reaping the benefits of a compost pile for your garden... quickly? We show you how to make quick compost... pronto!

The Bates Homestead is a great example of how renters can set up a successful edible garden in a rental property. We also bring you five edible gardening tips from owner Katy Bates.