Mint is a perennial herb that is easy to grow and is notoriously known for escaping garden boundaries in search of more space to put its roots down...
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Homemade Ginger Beer
The beautiful taste of homemade ginger beer has been the highlight of my childhood and the smell is imprinted on my brain along with memories of...
Fairy Houses
Hello! If any of you have met me, you will know that I am a magic-believin', dragon-ridin', tree-talkin', fairy-findin',...
Native Violet Jelly
In our family, my Mum makes lots of jams, jellies, relishes and chutneys. I want to share with you one of my favourite jellies that she makes at...
Our Ducks
Hi all, In this article, I'd like to talk a bit about ducks - we have four fluffy white pekin ducks (three girls and a boy). Ducks are an important...
Surprise Sunflower!
Hi, I'm Chloe! I currently live on a 50-acre farm in northwest TAS - 45 acres of which is rainforest. We’d been admiring a self-seeded sunflower for...
Permaculture & Disabilities
Billie Ballard is my big sister living with me and my family in the Noosa Hinterland. You may have seen or even own one of Billie’s incredible...
Our Guinea Pigs
We have just added two new additions to our farm... Floppy and Moppy, two long haired Texel Guinea Pigs! Texels are a gorgeous floppy-haired breed...
Butter Fingers
What's better than butter? BETTER BUTTER. You may be asking yourself - ‘how do you possibly improve the creamy deliciousness of butter?’ Make it at...
Sustainable Easter Tips
Easter is the time of the year that is synonymous with sharing time and meals with your family and eating delicious chocolate eggs. Unfortunately,...
Our Goat Keeping System
Hello 🙂 When I started researching goats, the first thing I did was to check out Bill Mollison's Permaculture Manual. I read the section on goats...
Aboriginal Bush Tucker
Aboriginal people have occupied the Australian continent for over 60,000 (some say 120,000) years - over this long period of time they have found...
Reacting to Rain
If you're in South East Queensland or Northern New South Wales, you would've been getting hefty amounts of rain. In my area we didn't flood, but...
A Hopeful Solution
Presently I am studying to be a Kiss the Ground Soil Advocate and I want to share with you some of what I am learning. The picture I have shared in...
Gnomes in Domes
Hello, my name is Ellenie, I'm fourteen years old and live in The Domes, an incredible earthbrick house. The “Gnomes” (my family of four humans,...