Happy Ostara/Spring Equinox my southern dwelling friends!  The actual moment is 24 hours away at the time of writing this (it will be the 23rd of September 11:04am AEST), but the weather today feels like ✨spring✨, it’s 21C with blue skies and the lovelist breeze.  It’s supposedly going to be raining again tomorrow, so I’m […]

Another week, another menu plan. Veggies in our weekly box and everything in our garden are essentially the same as last week, so I’m thinking up some new variations. Here’s what I have planned for the week ahead. Seasonal Veggies We’re Working With In our veggie box this week: Beetroot Broccolini Capsicum Carrots Cauliflower Gai […]

Menu planning has to be one of the best habits I’ve committed to this year. I now have 8 months of menu plans to refer back to, which I know I’ll be so very grateful for when I come to the 12-month mark and can start looping back. I’ve written about this briefly in my […]

I’ve been the proud gardener of a herb and vegetable plot for one year now. Despite being a gardener in my heart, we’d been living between Melbourne and Sydney for 8 years before we moved to the country in Central Victoria, so all I could manage were herbs and flowers in pots. But now we […]

Spring is certainly on its way on this sunny (but still bitingly cold) Saturday morning. We’ve been to the local markets this morning for a chai, a listen to some local musos, bumping into local folks and buying some gorgeous blooms. Daffodils always fill my heart with the most gorgeous sparkly feeling and they’re now […]