OWN your life! Building a more self-reliant lifestyle, one small step at a time. Sourdough Banana Nut Muffin Recipe to Start Your Day. Try Making Pickled Cauliflower with the Lacto-Fermentation Method. Wondering what to do with beet greens? Need a healthy snack? Try these two roasted ch.

Energy decline and self-sufficiency from Melbourne, Australia. summer was very depressing, with too many ultra-hot days which scorched the fruit on the trees and cooked the tomatoes on the plants and kept me busy just trying to keep ahead of the weather.

Real Gardening in my Real Garden. A handful of freshly picked apples. If you need to pick up the manky apples under the trees, the Gardena Fruit Collector makes it so easy and less messy. The long arm of the Gardena Fruit Picker made picking those hard to reach apples easy peasy. With drops of rain beginning to fall, we carried our heavy harvest from the orchard.

Exploring sustainability in Sydney, and down south. We have plenty of beeswax! February 17, 2018. 5kg of pure beeswax looks like. One of the many advantages of Warré hives is that the bees draw new comb each season, meaning the wax is harvested as well as the honey. This produces a lot of lovey chemical-free wax! Nothing but beeswax, which produces a lovely honey smell when lit.

Local organisations in the news. National and other food organisations. National and other food websites. Overall calendar of local events. Calendars by type of event. Once-off events other than cooking classes. The local shops selling local products. Local fruit trees on public land.

We have exciting news on the homestead! In April, our new baby homesteader arrived and since then all our time and energy has been focused on caring for this amazing new life joining our family.

Growing, cooking, preserving and renovating around the mulberry tree. My very long tomato season comes to an end. Osso bucco and Asian style Chicken Soup.