The Beaches Farm Girl

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  • Grow Vegetables in Vertical Planters for Small Spaces Like an Expert

    Grow Vegetables in Vertical Planters for Small Spaces Like an Expert

    Vertical planters are all the rage overseas at the moment, so I’m going to give it a try in my Australian urban farm/homestead/backyard. Vegetable gardening is great for saving money, but if you aren’t making the most of the sunshine you have, growing delicious food may be harder than it needs to be. Vertical planters…

  • Seeds for Winter Garden Success: What You Need to Plant Now

    Seeds for Winter Garden Success: What You Need to Plant Now

    It might feel strange sowing seeds in winter, but if you want to be eating from your garden all year round, you need to be planting seeds throughout the year. It’s the middle of winter here in my backyard garden, and you might be surprised at what’s still going in the ground this July! If…

  • 🌴 Castaway Island Resort Fiji is The Best Family Holiday

    🌴 Castaway Island Resort Fiji is The Best Family Holiday

    When we were on the ferry heading home from Mana Island last year we spotted Castaway Island Resort and put it on our bucket list. The waters around it, Hobie Cats sitting on the beach, and the pure joy and relaxation of the people on their way home was what we wanted for our next…

  • My First Chicken Rooster Harvest Challenge

    My First Chicken Rooster Harvest Challenge

    The real life highs and lows of keeping chickens as back yard pets.

  • How to Install a Raised Garden and Grow Vegetables

    There are many things to consider when making a new garden bed, particularly when the intention is to grow food. The most important thing is the amount of sun that the spot in the garden gets. To grow vegetables you need a minimum of six hours of sunshine a day. When deciding to start growing…

  • Garden Update Growing Delicious Vegetables in Sydney in Summer

    So much is happening out in the veggie garden at the moment. Lunch and dinner salad both came from the backyard. Despite the battle I’m currently having with fruit fly. I say battle, but I really haven’t been doing much defense other than removing fruit that has been attacked. I’m doing my best to keep…

  • Mum, There is No Such Thing as a Super Mum

    Yes, you read that right, the “super mum” does not exist. Sure, she exists in social media, but not in real life. Why am I writing about this? Because one of my besties (who has three young kids), who is a great Mum, messaged me that I was a super mum. She said this because…

  • Summer In The Vegetable Garden

    Summer is in full swing, but my veggie garden is only just plodding along. It’s true what they say, you only get out what you put in. Sadly at the moment my time management skills are really being put to the test. Thankfully we always seem to have herbs growing in the garden. As I…

  • New Restaurant Rough & Bare in Mona Vale

    Rough & Bare restaurant, yep, that is seriously what they called it, is the newest restaurant in Mona Vale. It is super health focused. I went and checked it out one Friday morning with Mark and Olivia, who both thoroughly enjoyed their meals. All I need to say about my meal, is that when I…

  • Restaurant Jah Bar Dee Why has Great Spanish Hospitality

    An impromptu family date night, brought on by picking my car up from being serviced, found us looking for a restaurant in Dee Why. I don’t think we’ve visited Dee Why since having Olivia, so it’s fair to say that we aren’t regulars. But Jah Bar might just change that. We started off our meal…

  • My Baby Turned Two in the Blink of an Eye

    I blinked and all of a sudden my baby turned two. It feels like only yesterday when brilliant photographer Sheridan Nilsson came and captured the expressions of one day old Lara. During the weeks leading up to this milestone her vocabulary exploded. Along with demands to “go outside, dig worms”, and “babycinno me” said with…

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