Wow, what a weekend! We headed down to Sydney to give the organic markets a try and ended up having a fantastic weekend catching up with lots of past farmstay guests…who would have thought you could fit 12 kids behind the counter of our little stall!?! Who would have thought the blokes would be willing to [...]
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At the Taree Envirofair yesterday where we had a stall selling our goat’s milk soaps and lip balms, and selling Sun Baked cookies from our Sun Ovens, I had one of those magic moments. Our kids always find something to amuse themselves with at the markets, whether it be a fellow stallholder’s puppy, other kids to play football [...] Was reading a story today by Stacey Singer that appeared in the SMH. It was aptly titled “Kiss of Death as Lippie Tests Positive for Lead”. According to Singer, “tests conducted by the US Food and Drug Administration last year on 22 red lipsticks found lead, a neurotoxin, in every single lipstick sample studied. The highest levels [...] I’m sitting here chuckling at what a varied life our children are leading. I can’t help but smile when I think how we’re trying to bridge their world from the techno side to the eco/capable side. On one hand they live like lots of other kids, they surf the internet, watch tv and want to go [...] 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 [...] Well, the gorgeous 5yo headed off to big school with the big siblings yesterday and came home with an even bigger grin than she’d left home with. Yay! It’s such an amazing privilege to be a parent, sure there can be up days and down days, but there’s nothing quite like enjoying watching your children grow and [...] You know what’s cool? That it doesn’t matter what’s going on around us, we can all make little changes in our own lives that can have an impact and make us feel great too. Today’s change for us was switching from packaged cows milk to goat milk…that’s because Ivy & Kay arrived! Sure, not everyone has [...] A few years back when I first heard about potential health problems being caused by drinking from plastic water bottles, I began researching alternatives for my children. The bottle with the most brand awareness at the time, and the bottle most stocked by retailers, seemed to be the SIGG bottle which was made of aluminium with [...] Over the past 30 years, toxic chemicals, like Teflon, plastics, and formaldehyde have increasingly invaded our homes. We used to think these substances were harmless, but a rising tide of evidence has turned the spotlight on chemical exposures as a possible poison to our children’s developing brains. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harvey-karp/cracking-the-autism-riddl_b_221202.html US Employers cut a larger-than-expected 467,000 jobs in June [...] A CHEMICAL commonly used in plastic bottles may be harmful to the heart, a number of US studies have found. Bisphenol A (BPA) is used in the manufacture of items such as baby bottles, food containers and refillable drink bottles. http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/lifestyle/wellbeing/heart-problems-linked-to-bottle-use-20090627-d0km.html Are water coolers safe? The chemical Bisphenol A, or BPA, has been in the news a [...] |
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