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Hi Colours - what you're doing is fantastic, good on you! Really motivating . Welcome!

There's an amazing guy called Peter Proctor who does a lot of work in India to help the people convert away from hideous intensive farming & to organic & biodynamic agriculture - he's doing a fantastic job. Amazing film called 'how to save the world - one man, one cow, one planet' http://www.howtosa...

There's a great book called 'Yeah! I made it myself!' by Eithne Farry, it has clothes & other random things which you can make without a proper pattern, I've used it for a few dresses & skirts with great success One day I think I'll have to buy it, I constantly have it out from the library!

I have had tomatoes mysteriously pop up in the middle of my basil before! (I've had tomatoes pop up EVERYWHERE in fact...no idea where they come from?)

I don't know if being in NZ helps, but I have about a zillion chillies this year! I put a polytunnel over the plants out in the garden last winter, they went to sleep, then woke up again in the spring and gave me exponentially more fruit in their second year than they did in their first. And now it'...

I've been working on eliminating 'hair washing' as such...have a look at http://crabappleherbs.com/blog/2008/02/01/simple-herbal-hair-care/ , I've cut down to rinsing my hair with baking soda & water followed by a weak vinegar & water solution, then the next step is using leftover herbal tea with a ...

I found a website the other day that has free patterns on it! you just print them off & stick them together... www.burdastyle.com. There are some pretty dresses & things on the site, and if you're clever you can post your patterns for other people to download & use. Old sheets are fantastic for maki...

Hi, I'm Kathleen & I live with way down in New Zealand on a biodynamic vineyard with my husband and 2 cats... We're working on being more self sufficientish! Living out here is great, since the vineyard is already organic & biodynamic we don't have to worry about nasty sprays or any of the other hid...