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Whether you’re diving into natural cheesemaking with raw milk and heirloom cultures, baking perfect whole grain sourdough loaves, mastering lacto-fermentation and food preservation, cooking nourishing meals from your garden and pantry, or learning the full spectrum of self-sufficiency skills – you’ll find it here.
Every post is written for real homesteaders and off-grid families who want practical, no-nonsense advice that actually works in a busy, self-reliant life. No fluff, no shortcuts, no nonsense – just time-tested methods, beautiful real-food results, and the quiet satisfaction that comes from doing it yourself.
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Mulberry Crumble
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I’ve memorised this recipe from making it so many times, because it’s an easy and wonderfully tasty way to serve all kinds of seasonal fruit.
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Mulberries on the homestead and in the kitchen
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I don’t think there’s anything that gives a feeling of abundance more than fruit trees. To watch the tree first awaken in early spring, the incomparable colour of soft green buds, and then the fragile pastel flowers bursting into life, covering the tree in the archetypal colours of springtime. We moved onto this rental property in winter, when the trees stood bare and skeleton-like in the frosted landscape. We had no idea of what would happen to these trees in…
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How to sterilise jars and milk buckets without chemicals
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Raw milk is an important food to my family, so much so that we don’t mind buying all of our goats’ feed in while living in suburban sized blocks with no grazing land. To make the most of this precious milk, and to make sure that there’s no chance of us getting sick, I am careful about having a milking routine that minimises the chances of the milk getting contaminated. How to sterilise jars and milk buckets without chemicals: oven…
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A Beginning
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I find my enthusiasm for nourishing, tasty and sustainable food hard to contain sometimes, so this is where I’ll write about it.
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Recent Posts
- How to Scale Cheesemaking Recipes Up or Down: Rennet, Culture, and More
- Easy Leftover Vegetable or Meat Pasties (Savoury Hand Pies Recipe)
- Magic Overnight Sourdough Pizza Dough Recipe with Fresh Milled Flour
- Cooking year-round on a wood cookstove: the dream, the reality, and the practicalities of relying on our own firewood and being off the gas grid
- 100% Whole Grain Fresh Milled Flour Sourdough Bread for Beginners: A Step-by-Step Guide
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