Recycling. It's something that nearly all of us do in Australia, and have done for quite some time. Most of us feel pretty good about it too, we're doing our bit for the planet. However, it'd be fair to ask the question, why, what's the point?

You see, we've r...

Grow Potatoes with your kids

What is going on up there in the Northern hemisphere? The Arctic recorded its warmest winter on record. There have been tragedies in Greece and California due to fire and even wild fires in Sweden and Norway! Record temperatures in Portugal and floods in France! Meanwh...

I can still recall the moment I decided to start growing my own food. It came with an odd sense of urgency, not of an impending sense of doom (the GFC was in full swing at this point in time), but because I knew there was so much I wanted to learn, so much I didn’t kno...

My family and I have been on this journey towards self sufficiency for about 10 years now. We’re not there yet, in fact self sufficiency has never been the specific goal. It’s more a journey of relationship with the each other, the natural world and an exercise in comm...

Back in 2012, a friend entered our home, looked across into the kitchen and exclaimed, “Please tell me you’re not going to eat that? You don’t know where its been!”

She was referring to a pair of rabbits sitting on our kitchen bench, skinned, gutted and ready for the po...