The Sydney Morning Herald’s Good Living Section seems to polarise people… if you ask my Dad he says he doesn’t even open it, but if you ask my sister (and about a gazillion other people), it’s her favourite section of the paper all week. And there seems to be a huge cross section of people who [...]
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We’ve just had a lovely few days here at Honeycomb Valley with three UK backpackers who are part of the HelpX network. HelpX’ers exchange labour in return for food and lodging at the farmstay. Jenn, Lorna and Adam did a bit of everything during their stay from cookie making (for baking in our Sun Oven) to vegetable [...] 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 an amazing couple of weeks we’ve enjoyed. We’ve handspun more honey, hosted another beekeeping course, collected and filtered our beeswax in the solar cooker and blended our raw honey and beeswax into a natural range of non-toxic lip balms…and then we sold them at farmers’ markets to a great response as people enjoyed the natural flavour and texture [...] It’s so easy to get lulled into a false sense of comfort (or is that complacency!?) when oil prices at the pump seem bearable, it’s only when they shoot up we start to think again about car use and the impact on food and other prices…and the longer term future of life with volatile oil prices. [...] |
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