September 3, 2021
As the days start to grow longer, the chooks egg production also starts to pick up. Soon we have more eggs each day than we can […]
August 19, 2021
Its finally harvest time and the pines are coming down! It’s only been ten months since they first said the harvest would happen, October was the […]
July 23, 2021
In many countries fruits and vegetables which are able to be stored long term were put in root cellars. These were sometimes located under the house […]
July 18, 2021
In smaller household’s wooden kitchen dressers often fulfilled the job of the pantry and meat safes or ice boxes were used for foods which needed a […]
July 14, 2021
The ‘dry’ larder was more like today’s larder or pantry, this was where the grain, dried fruits, cooked pastries, dried meats and even some types of […]
July 9, 2021
Storing food in fat is virtually unheard of these days but this method of food preservation is actually the origin of the of the word larder. We tend to […]
June 28, 2021
Nature won’t allow bare soil; it will attempt to cover it with growth as fast as possible. The only places in nature with bare earth are […]
May 11, 2021
From the moment we are born, we begin to learn and to the day we die we are surrounded by opportunities to continue learning and growing. […]
April 25, 2021
Lucy has only ever had a ‘sheep herd’, ever since we picked her up as a tiny 6 day old lowline Angus/jersey cross dairy calf. The teeny bundle […]