Well the time has come.... the days are getting longer, (and warmer...?) and we should be thinking about our spring/summer vegetable garden. For me this starts with raising some seeds indoors. Purchasing seeds allows you to get an early jump on the growing season, and also opens you up to many more varieties than you […]
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 […]
The Vegetable garden is in a transition phase at the moment. Because we have had quite a mild autumn a lot of my summer vegies are still producing, but yet I am trying to make room to get some winter vegies started. Summer vegetables still hanging on are tomatoes, capsicums, pumpkins, zucchini and chillis. I've […]
Harvest, Harvest, Harvest - that seems to be the theme for February, in the vegetable patch. From zucchinis to corn, beans to greens - it seems like everything starts coming in ready for picking in February. Harvest and Watering! Our corn is nearly all picked by the end of February. I planted it in […]
We have a couple of chilli bushes in the herb garden – a Jalapeño, and one of these below, I call it “mystery” variety. Its very pretty, as the chillies are quite short, and the whole bush is more of a ground cover than a bush. Danny has been keen to make some of […]
It sounds idealic – eating fresh food you’ve produced yourself, looking over green paddocks, setting your own time table, maybe even slowing down your lifestyle a bit….. And it certainly can be like this, but there are times when things fall in a heap, and you wonder if all the hard work is worth it. […]