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If you’re reading this blog, you might be interested in the whole “Slow” movement which celebrates taking time to prepare good food, thoughts and friendships. Now in its fourth edition, there’s a beautifully produced Australian magazine celebrating all things “Slow”. The words it uses to describe itself/its readers are: “creative, leisured, aware, relaxed, satisfied, informed, sincere…” The brainchild of Jacqui [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] Yay! Our beautiful bees have won first prize for honey at the 2010 Wallamba District Show. The judge awarded joint first place to our jars of January and February honey, as well as a first place to our candied honey. Okay…so there was no competition (literally as we had the only three entries! )…but…the great news [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] When we got started on the self sufficient life, we gobbled up all the information we could find from books, courses and the Internet…but nothing beats meeting a person or group of people who take you under their wing and generously show you the hows, the whys and the what ifs. You’ll find great mentors at Landcare, [...] NEW HYDROGEN-POWERED CITY CAR UNVEILED: A former motor-racing engineer has unveiled a prototype of a new hydrogen-powered city car which claims to emit less than one third of the carbon emissions produced by its nearest rival. http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/06/16/riversimple.hydrogen.car/index.html MEGA CITIES RIPE FOR MEGA DISASTER. Some of the world’s biggest cities are at growing risk of “megadisasters”, the [...] |
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