Medusa’s Garden
Our kitchen garden is really Medusa’s Garden, the orchard and the areas around and in between. Why Medusa? Because that’s a name for the primordial serpent energy of the land and there’s that wildness here. If the land doesn’t like…
Homemade Natural Toothpaste
I probably wouldn’t have bothered with homemade toothpaste if organic, fluoride-free natural toothpaste was easy to get here, but it isn’t and I just couldn’t bring myself to buy the commercial stuff. So, I started to look for natural, easy…
Natural coconut milk shampoo
I’ve been working to get as many chemicals out of our lives as possible. Every other day a report comes out about cancer-causing chemicals in shampoo, toxic ingredients in the laundry detergent or asthma and allergies triggered by common household…
Lessons from water
In the developed world we take water for granted; we don’t appreciate it and we brutalise it, alternately contaminated it and then treating it with harmful chemicals. We barely stop to think that without it we would not exist, many…
