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Sharing new OFFGRID beginnings working mostly with what we have available, would love to inspire too!

31/10/2026

Sunset tonight & 18mths before with lots of harvests inbetween, we learn as we grow along!

27/10/2026

What a blessing to spend the weekend with my first grandson Guy(17yo+1wk) he asked to come learn & help, it was just the two of us. He now knows more about soil, compost, biochar, swales, Comfrey, Vetiver, his favourite food recipes & more. As a soccer player he has been using our Comfrey salve & oil when injured, he likes the charcoal soap I made especially for him.

We chopped & dropped Comfrey preparing existing beds, we also planted potatoes & corn🥔 🌽 He helped the guys to clear along the front fence between the Kei Apples & Honeysuckle.

17/10/2026

Nature is amazing, the seasons are needed to give all plants a turn to show off. The Pink Roses growing along the back fence flower at the same time as the Apples, only these 2 are from before we started our garden from scratch 🪷☮️

It's been raining all morning finally soaking the soil & 🐌everywhere. We have lots of ready seedlings to plant tomorrow including potatoes for Garden Day told Mia Kelly to come prepared.

I made my first ever Tallow soap especially for my first grandson Guy who turns 17yo in a few days, we share the same star sign. He loves soccer, learning & reading with lots of interests. He is the only one to ask me about Seabuckthorn while travelling in China with his family last year he loved the juice, I will order a few more trees. I added Rosemary, Grapefruit & Teatree essential oil a good blend for an active & enquiring mind he can share some with his friends. The ingredients are with the pic. Thanks to Oneziwe Jackson for the inspiration.

09/10/2026

Something Yellow from the garden🌻Made home grown Tumeric soap for the first time also rendered a little beeswax from the one & only hive that has now been removed since the 🐝left 😭 We have lots of 🐝🐝 coming into the house & dying, apparently the local Apple farmers bring in hives during the pollination season & I thought they followed the wax. Pics of the process included.

I made some Honeysuckle cuttings from Anke Pearson last year, we planted them along the fence with the Kei Apples on the road side they have started flowering. It's our Seedswop tomorrow, we will have Elderberry drinks & other harvest treats comment if you would like to attend.

02/10/2026

There is rain on the way we planted 2 varieties of bush beans today & the Tomatoes are the first to start growing in the seed snails. I made some Lemonbalm plants to take to the Mowbray Market tomorrow, also Elderberry & Vetiver cuttings plus the usual Comfrey. We have lots of volunteer Evening Primrose, let me know if you would like to collect one there.

We made some Indian samoosas today for the first time, Punjabi style Potatoes without the peas. It was delicious will make some for the seedswop next week the recipe is with the pic!

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