Our Australian

Urban Homestead

Living a Simple, Happier Lifestyle

Melding Garden, Kitchen, and Home into a Simple Life

Hi, we are Cindy and Dan.

Join us on our journey into homesteading on a 1000 sqm block where we grow food, cook from scratch, and preserve while turning our old house into a home. 

Lifestyle

Balancing Home Life and Community Connection

Living the Good Life - Homestead Living and Making an Old House a Home.

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Kitchen

From Garden to Table. Home-Grown Flavours in Every Meal and Jar.

Cooking, Preserving and Savouring the gardens' harvest and locally grown food.

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Garden

Our Garden's Progress

Plant, Grow, Harvest. The Realities of Gardening.

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Making Grape Juice – Two Ways

April 4, 2025
After being given three lots of purple grapes this summer, you can bet the first thing I did was research everything I could preserve with them. I am so grateful anytime anyone gives us the gift of abundance. The first...
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Homemade Grape Jelly

March 31, 2025
This summer, I was lucky enough to be offered a ton of purple grapes. A friend has them growing over a pergola and cannot keep up with the abundance. She told me she once harvested ten wheelbarrows full. She knows...
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Making Sauerkraut – Fermented Cabbage

August 13, 2024
Growing up I hated sauerkraut. My Dutch parents loved it, buying it in a jar from the supermarket. I don't recall them ever making it. Mum told stories of my Oma making it and storing it in the root cellar...
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