Over 30 years ago I enjoyed my first ostereierbaum. A small tree with bare branches decorated with hanging Easter egg ornaments. An ostereierbaum can be kept inside, all you need is a branch which can either be found in nature or these days bought at many crafts store and stand it in a pot or […]
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I have long maintained that if I had invested all the money I have spent on books into shares, I’d be sitting on a pretty healthy retirement fund by now. But I chose to invest in books, in knowledge; in a resource that, while it might not see me cruising the Carribean in my Autumn
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What a learning curve we have been on! A little while back, Transition Streets Geelong invited us to run a series of workshops for them, under the title Made It Myself – Sharing With Others. Skills based workshops where participants learn a skill, practice it, then pass it on to others. Since then, we have
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Pondering the Weather…. We check the tanks regularly for dropping water levels, vegies garden need watering, dams are drying up and creeks stop flowing, and we watch as the whole country side turns brown as crops are harvested and grass dries out, and I wondered, are we any different to the residents of the
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Why Consider living with Backyard Chickens? You can be a food producer! The local food movement is flourishing, and by keeping backyard chickens you can take pride in being a food producer and not just a consumer. You know exactly where your eggs come from! When you raise your own eggs and/or meat you
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