First off, I should probably say that it is almost impossible to COMPLETELY grow all your household’s vegetable needs for the year. There are a lot of variables that affect how much you can grow; the size of the area you have for growing, the length of your growing season, the time you have to put into […]
The sourdough starter technique I'm about to describe here is one that I have been making for a few years now - I can't remember where the initial recipe came from but I have certainly tweaked it a bit over time anyway. The sourdough starter is simply a mixture of flour and water. Wild yeast […]
Homemade ice cream - seriously the most delicious thing ever!! We have an abundance of milk at the moment. We have weaned Marmalade's calves, but are still milking her for a few more weeks. And of course when you have lots of milk - you also have lots of cream!! So we have been […]
About a year ago now, my husband came up with the fantastic idea to get our kids to cook every Sunday night. My initial thoughts were "bloody fantastic idea" - and lets be honest, I was purely thinking of it from my own point of view "Yes!!! - one night a week when I don't […]
A month or so ago, I did a post on raising your own lamb for meat production. We have since had our butcher out and had a couple big days of creating and preserving our meat! WARNING - if you don't like the gory details and pics, don't read on! Most people who raise meat […]
As I mentioned a couple of posts ago, we had the perfect summer for growing produce. Plenty of warm days interspersed with the odd rainy day, which has had both the vegie garden and the orchard doing very well. I hate wastage and so have tried to preserve as much of the fruit and vegies […]
October 2014 was my last post! I’ve thought about writing so many times, but it has always been a question of where to start!! But I figure if I don’t start, I never will so this post will just be a “where are we now” post!! The Farm 2015 was a very dry year for […]
After my vegie garden update, I had a number of questions regarding my recipe for Green Tomato Pickles, so I thought I would do a post about it today. I had actually never tried Green Tomato Pickles before, but we always have a jar in the fridge – that I buy – because Cam loves it on […]
I picked the first of our broccoli last night. They are massive heads, and I think I picked them just in time as they will start spreading if I’d left them much longer. Obviously this is much more than we are likely to eat in the next week or so, so I cut them up […]
Its mushroom time!! Besides our middle son – Danny, the rest of us LOVE mushrooms. And we particularly love this time of the year when they are growing wild in the paddocks and we can pick them. This was yesterday’s collection, just from the paddock around the house where Pickles our dairy cow spends some […]