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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…
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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…
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🌴 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…
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My First Chicken Rooster Harvest Challenge
The real life highs and lows of keeping chickens as back yard pets.
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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…
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Why don’t we tell people we love them?
Have you ever wondered why we don’t regularly tell the people that are special to us that we love them? This post could be about so many things. Why do people of sound mind get dealt with shit bodies that they can’t live in, whilst people who have lost their marbles and want to check…
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Sun Run, take two
This morning Kylie and I completed our second Sun Run in two years. At first it didn’t look like the sun was even going to make an appearance, and we were both flabbergasted by the extremes in weather from last year where the temperature had already reached 25 degrees at 6:30am. We were grateful for…
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Book Review: A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
The book “A Discovery of Witches” made such an impact on me that it has inspired me to write my first book review post. This is probably an attempt to remind myself how much I enjoy reading, and that I should do it more often. It always seems that I only make the time to…
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How to Make Delicious White Bread at Home
Baking bread at home is an enjoyable thing to do when you have snippets of time through the day. It is slow living at it’s best, activating all the senses. The textile meditation as you roll out the dough, then practicing patience as it slowly rises. Only to then joyfully punch the air out of…
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Mother Nature’s Weather is Confusing my Chickens Egg Production
We have three Australorp chickens, the one above is Fry. She is curious and my favourite. I’ve had her since she was two days old. She grew up in a box in my craft room until she was big enough to go outside. That is probably how she became Baxter’s favourite chicken too. You may…
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It rained for 6 days and 6 nights, rain, rain, rain
In Sydney it felt like the rain was never going to stop, there was constant downpour with the only change being when it absolutely bucketed down. It seriously rained for six days and six nights. When the rain stopped on Saturday my ears went in to shock, it was suddenly quiet, and before I knew…
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