Creating the perfect environment for your breeding chickens is essential to ensure their health, productivity, and happiness. In this post, we’ll guide you through the process of setting up an ideal chicken coop and run on your homestead.
A guide to creating natural cleaning vinegars for your home
In this post, we’ll delve into the art of making natural cleaning vinegars, providing you with the tools to maintain a clean, fresh, and environmentally friendly home.
How to make tallow candles – a step-by-step guide to crafting warm ambience
Gather your materials, let your creativity flow, and let’s dive into the fascinating world of tallow candle-making – where history, sustainability, and creativity intertwine to create something truly magical.
All-natural homemade toothpaste recipe – an easy low-tox alternative to commercial toothpaste
If you need a super simple homemade natural toothpaste recipe, then this is for you. Made with simple ingredients, this recipe is sure to help you make the switch to natural toothpaste much easier!
Weekly round-up 18 September
This weekly round-up is a huge mixture of things! We had equine dental, t-shirt collaborations, making soap in the soap studio, baking and updates on the farmhouse reno!
Weekly round-up 24 July 2022
In this weekly round-up, we talk about chicken coops, gardens, the weather, a brioche recipe and smoked meat!
Weekly round-up 19 June 2022
Like all weeks on a homestead, this one was just as busy and just as fulfilling. This post outlines the last week on our homestead, including why we purchased a freeze dryer, plans for our new meat hen coop, heading out to the Ripley SSAA and a discussion about new skills. Read on for more…
Vlog Episode 2: Working on the garden extension and rendering
In today’s vlog, I spend some time in the garden replanting seeds and slightly bigger plants before the first storm of the season hits, and we have an impromptu rendering job that has been on the project list for some time come to fruition!
Clearing and creating new paddocks – dealing with ground asparagus weeds and paperbarks
In today’s post, we had the earth mover out to clear the back paddocks so we can finish our internal fencing, and the issues we’ve had dealing with ground asparagus weeds.
Removing the old cubby and extending the garden
We’ve used this time in lockdown to remove a cubby house that’s been on the property since we first bought it! We’re doing a garden renovation and extending the garden, making a flower and companion planting bed and re-framing the sides of the garden to give more protection! Read on for more…