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Making Grape Juice – Two Ways
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...
Homemade Grape Jelly
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...
Making Sauerkraut – Fermented Cabbage
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...
Growing a Self-Sufficient Vegetable Garden
With today’s ever-increasing food costs and occasional food shortages, growing your food is becoming more appealing. There could be some argument about how much growing your food actually saves, but that depends on how you garden. If you garden on...
How We Simplified Life
What does a simple life mean? For us, it means trimming all excess in our lives – material, financial and emotional. It means our life is uncomplicated, drama-free, uncluttered, and financially stable. It also extends to our health and what...
Urban Homesteading
Urban Homestead is a relatively new term. Or is it? The word homestead can suggest various things – a large property where people farm, raise crops and run cattle: or early homesteaders, pioneers taming new land to make a living....
Learning One New Skill a Month 2024
Hello! It has been a long time between blog posts and I am a little late getting this one out. Life has been good for us here on our little evolving urban homestead. I hope all has been good for...
Time Saving Ideas for Cooking from Scratch
Save your time and sanity by implementing these time-saving ideas in your kitchen. I love to cook a beautiful and delicious meal. Something special, with flavours to savour. I like to pour over recipes to find the right one. Perhaps...
For the Love of lemon
I love lemons! We are blessed our new home has an old lemon tree laden with fruit. Not only do we have a Lemon tree, but also an Orange, Pomegranate, Fig and a massive Mandarin tree – which will receive...
How We Found Our New Home
This week it will be three months since we moved to our new home in Inverell, NSW, Australia. We bought a lovely old 114-year-old home. The most asked question we get is "Why Inverell?" So, this is our story of...
