Month: March 2018

Gardening / homegrown / Homemade / Local / Love food hate waste / Preserving / Recipes / Sustainability

Easy Pickled Chillies

Our chilli plants are producing fruit in abundance at the moment and I harvested a whole bunch more ripe ones this morning. We have always had great success growing chillies in our garden and since […]

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Gardening / homegrown / Local / Love food hate waste / menu planning

A tale of a fig tree

It was a dark and stormy night.  Wellington’s infamous wind was crashing through the trees and whistling around the rooftops.  I was lying awake, wondering if this would be the night that the roof finally […]

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No Waste / Sewing / Sustainability

Rescued and Rehomed

A house across the road from ours is currently being renovated and a couple of weeks ago, there was a very full skip outside.  Hubby had been checking it out everyday on the way home […]

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