Earlier this year, Jan Becker in Austria made a wonderful short documentary on how the Schroeckenfux factory makes their scythe blades. I hope you enjoy it as much as we did … Key points from the doco for those who don’t speak German: Schroeckenfux manufacture about 1,000 scythe blades a day It […]
When we have our Sustainable Living Weekends, everybody uses the bucket composting toilets. So we can never have too many 20L buckets. The buckets generally come from food processing businesses who are very pleased to find a second home for the buckets rather than sending them straight to landfill. However, many of the buckets have […]
When you buy a fermenting crockpot from us, you also get two fermenting stones, otherwise known as weights. Their function is to hold the food to be fermented under the fermenting liquid. Cleaning Your Fermenting Stones Sometimes, no matter how careful you are, the stones you use to weigh down the cabbage go mouldy. Here […]
Nectarine season! January and the nectarines are ripening in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales. Unfortunately, the King Parrots ate our nectarines this year, so off we go to a local nectarine orchardist to pick up kilos of nectarines. To eat fresh? Well, of course, but there are only so many nectarines you can […]
We weren’t actually there for the Christmas days! We had 4 wonderful young people, two from France (Maartje and Vince) and two from Germany (Helen and Sven), who minded our farm while we visited family down in Nowra. And unbeknownst to us, they were making a video of their experience on the farm. It’s a […]
Another Sustainable Living Weekend is behind us. As usual, we finished it exhausted, yet energised and inspired. When you get a group of people together who share similar philosophies and dreams, the result is spectacular. Energy, friendship, creativity, industriousness, curiosity, adventurous spirits, and a whole heap of fun and laughter. For those few days, we […]
The Mudgee Show was on last Friday and Saturday. So Sunday was clean-up day. We turned up with 2 utes and our small cattle trailer to help. Collecting straw doesn’t appear to be a high priority of most people. In the absence of people willing to collect the soiled straw from the animal exhibits, it […]
Sauerkraut is a traditional winter food of Germany and Eastern Europe. Although available in cans, it tastes so much better when you make it yourself – and it is so much healthier for you. And it is easy. We eat sauerkraut with most meals, and if we don’t have fresh salad from our garden on […]