walking lightly on earth

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READY FOR A LITTLE OUTING

READY FOR A LITTLE OUTING

Bringing your own snacks is a great way to reduce packaging and avoid processed foods when going out. I find it very helpful to bring our own snacks to offer our four year old. We avoid buying packaged and processed snacks full of sugars. I’ve […]

WINTER FOOD FOR THE BIRDS

WINTER FOOD FOR THE BIRDS

Homemade food for the birds in old cups to help them through the winter. We mixed leftover animal cooking fat with a mix of seeds but I guess you can also use coconut oil as it’ll also stay solid. First the fat has to be […]

REUNITED WITH THE COMMUNITY FEELING

REUNITED WITH THE COMMUNITY FEELING

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Moving back home back to my home town after almost 20 years, one of the things that has caught my attention the most is the community feeling that exits here. Before moving in July, the word community had occupied my mind more and more and I knew I craved more of the community feeling.

Now that I’ve been dumped back into the safe and loving community that I grew up in, I’ve realised how important it is to be part of a community and how crucial it is for my conscious living path, reducing my footprint on the environment.

Coming from a warm climate to a colder climate our wardrobe needed an upgrade and it has been very easy and cheap to find secondhand winter clothes and boots. Additionally, we’ve been able to find farms close by who raise and feed farm animals in a healthy and conscious manner, who can supply us with local and organic meat. We’ve also found a few places to buy local and organic vegetables and we’ve been able to forage more berries, mushrooms and green leafy vegetables than previously.

Another amazing thing is the scale and extent that we borrow from our neighbours and people in our community. People talk with each other to hear what you’re up to and out of that conversation you often end up borrowing and getting something that you just needed to solve a problem or an issue. Or when one neighbour has many apples one year and others less apples, you’re invited to come and help yourself to apples.

I never thought I would come back to live here but right now my life’s circumstances has led me and my family here. I enjoy it and I’m re-learning a lot about community, which is very useful for an introvert like me  🙂

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DON’T THROW AWAY THE END CUTS

DON’T THROW AWAY THE END CUTS

The end of a spring onion that most people throw away, you can plant and they’ll regrow from it. You don’t even need a lot of roots intact on the end piece for it to grow. You can also grow them inside in a pot […]


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