This bread can be cooked in a regular oven but is yummiest out of an Earth friendly woodfired stove. Bread for the soul! Ingredients 3 cups flour 1 cup mixed seeds (pepitas, rye, sunflowers, linseed) 2 tsp salt 1 tsp bakers yeast 2 cups of warm, not hot, water. Method Mix dry ingredients together in … Continue reading Annie’s Woodfired Bread →

At the time of writing I am lying awake on the 9th floor of an inner city Melbourne apartment block. It’s getting late. I’ve given up on trying to sleep after the last few hours of lying here biting my nails. I’m getting anxious, because tomorrow we set sail on the spirit of tasmania, a … Continue reading The Great Ocean Road – Part 2- Family Edition →

Hey everyone! Sorry it’s been so long since we’ve written an update but we’ve just been so busy having so much fun down here on the south coast! Wow, where to begin? Well, once we got to Melbourne our plans were redirected pretty dramatically! Turns out Tasmania was on fire! I had overheard snippets of … Continue reading The Great Ocean Road (part 1) →

The convent grounds Fynna the cow, Melbourne’s luckiest bovine. Ah the earthy smell of manure, the soft cluck of nearby chickens, the gentle sound of hot milk hitting the side of a pail... not exactly what you would expect from inner city Melbourne! But that’s what you’ll find at the Collingwood Children’s Farm located on … Continue reading Melbourne – The Abbotsford Convent →

We have crossed the Victorian border and for what’s its worth we may as well have crossed the solar system to mars. It is SO hot here. The day before, in Eden, we were in thermals and jumpers under a grey sky and today it is 45 degrees Celsius and climbing. Fourty-Five. That’s just inhumane. … Continue reading Across the border to Mars →

Gulaga Mountain, the ancestral birthplace of the Yuin people. She holds the sleepy village of Tilba gently against her bosom and all the land around hums with her maternal love. There are places on this earth that are beautiful, there are places that are inspiring, and then there is places that make you're whole soul … Continue reading Cheeses loves the South Coast →

The SAGE (Sustainable Agriculture and Gardening Eurobodulla shire) project in Moruya was awe-inspiring.  They run a demonstration garden that was created to provide a working model of how someone could grow their own food on a small block of land and now it’s evolved into the demonstration site plus plots that locals can rent and … Continue reading Moruya and the SAGE revolution →

Purslane, Portulaca, Pigweed, whatever you want to call it, it’s a wonderful plant. Grown widely in Europe and Asia as a staple vegetable, it hasn’t quite made it to the Australian markets yet. But it certainly has made it to our sidewalks and our fields! Once you start looking, purslane is everywhere! It has the … Continue reading Recipe: Purslane, Potato and Leek Soup. →

Friday was one of the hardest days of my motherhood career. We woke up in Berry to the blasting sun, and by 8 am it was pushing 40° celsius with absolutely no shade at our campsite. It was also one of those days where Yilla would just not get off my boobs and I was … Continue reading The Battle from Berry to Batemans Bay →

The drive into Sydney is INCREDIBLE. The highway flows through the Ku-ring-Gai national park, constantly teasing you with jaw dropping views of crystal blue water, thick forest and stunning cliffs before bringing you over the next valley and slamming you with another postcard scene, and another, and another... aaaaallll the way to the city. Geographically, … Continue reading Sydney – Learning how to City →