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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 [...] Had the lovely pleasure of meeting Linda Dawson, the other day. She runs “Photography by Linda” and was able to get us in at the last minute to take some product shots for a magazine that will be featuring our Farm Balm moisturiser, goats milk soap, lip balms and other products soon. 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 [...] Like the slow food movement, there’s also a return to more natural, less toxic beauty products…and that’s a great thing! Take lip balms for example, we know a lot of people who get super dry lips and put on vaseline, petroleum byproducts and other synthetic lip balms. Take a look at the ingredients in your lip balm, if [...] 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 [...] |
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