Bathtime
When bathing or showering your children no doubt you’ll use some kind of product in the bathwater and on your kids to get them nice and clean (let’s face it kids can get super dirty!).…
Category Archives: herbs
Give the gift of plants
I love to make my own gifts for birthdays and at Christmas time. Before Christmas I shared a list of wonderful food gifts to make and eat and giveaway so I wanted to share some…
Homestead plans 2014
With a new year comes new hope and dreams for the year ahead. I want to share what I’d like to achieve in my garden and around the home this year. A few years back…
The winner is….
Thank you so much Nicola from Homegrown Kitchen for sending me your wonderful book Feeding little tummies. I’m very happy to announce the winner of this wonderful cookbook. Lindsay Rae from Arohanui vegan love I…
Back of door storage
The back of cupboard doors provide heaps of extra space to organise your life and tidy up your kitchen. I thought I’d share what the inside of some of my cupboards look like. On the…
Glass storage in the freezer
Now that summer is coming to an end there is plenty of wonderful produce in my garden and cheap produce at the market that I want to freeze for winter. I thought I’d share how…
Flavoured olive oil
You know how companies sell that super expensive but oh so yummy flavoured olive oils and we pay heavily for them? Well thanks to Wendyl the green goddess I now know how to make flavoured…
Organic medicinal herbs guide with top 5 natural herbs
Medicinal herbs can be very effective for many reasons, from helping you get a good nights sleep, to helping against morning sickness in pregnancies. The best part is that many of them come in the…
Basil pesto
It’s summer time and that means lots and lots of yummy fresh herbs. I went a little overboard with the basil (I bought 3 bundles from Awapuni nurseries) well you can NEVER have too much…
Plaiting garlic
I planted garlic last year but the cloves only doubled in size and didn’t really grow extra cloves. This year my garlic was a rather different story. I’m not sure why my garlic was more…