What do you do when the grass is growing like crazy and you’re lawnmower breaks down? It’s called “Goat Picnic Day”… those special days in the year the goats don’t hang out in the animal paddocks, but actually get to roam the house and farmstay area nibbling everything in sight. It’s so fun to see them [...]
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What on earth is synthetic beeswax and why on earth do we need it? That’s the question I asked when I checked out the ingredients on one of my daughter’s chemist-suggested eczema creams only to discover it said “synthetic beeswax”. It got me wondering…who makes it? (perhaps Cyborg bees?). What’s in it? (perhaps petrochemical honey & plastic [...]  I skipped this year’s gourd planting (too busy making goats milk soap), but last season I planted heaps of varieties in mini raised tyre garden beds (I figured it was okay to use tyres because we weren’t going to be eating the gourds). The tyre beds were the easiest way for me to get the gourds [...] Today was also goats milk soapmaking day and I wanted to create a new scent using organic essential oils. But first stop…the goats for milking! Step 1. Put milk pail up high so the goats can’t knock it over. The Honeycomb Valley view Step 2: Feed the girls some goat treats There's lots of yummy things in our [...] What a day. A beautiful morning is always a good time to go and check on the bees, and delighted to discover three boxes of honey fully capped and golden. Popped clearer boards on (so the bees can escape) before I head back out there to extract the boxes in a couple of days. Swung by [...] We’ve been soaping up a storm most days as we prepare for farmers markets and online sales and the results are hundreds of bars of beautiful handmade goats milk soap bars curing all over the house. The house smells great, but there’s not much room left for the human kids (or the goat ones!) and so [...] Araucana (or as some people spell it: arakana and arrowcana) chickens are a South American breed who lay beautifully-coloured green or blue eggs. At our nsw farmstay we pop in a breakfast hamper with free range eggs and are often asked by the guests if it’s safe to eat the green ones. It sure is. They taste no different [...] That is the question we’re now faced with after the ol’ microwave gave up the ghost today. Just a few years ago I would have just tossed it and rushed out to buy another…replace, upgrade, replace, upgrade…afterall, that’s just what we did. Not now though. We’re kind of thinking: do we really need a microwave if we [...] When you’re stir, stir, stirring goats milk soap batches, you get to ponder a bit about life, listen to a little talkback radio and watch the chickens through the window enjoying their free ranging. Today I was experimenting with a new goats milk soap recipe which includes a nice big dollop of yoghurt for extra [...] We made our first few test batches of goats milk soap last year thanks to the fresh milk our beautiful British Alpine goat Tracey was giving us (now she’s been joined by our lovely Saanen girls so we’re practically swimming in it). We went down the soap-making route because our youngest daughter suffers from eczema and [...] |
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