It’s too darn windy to garden. Instead we’ve been making soap with homemade lye and our own olive oil!  Can’t wait to see if it works. Also project sauerkraut is bubbling along nicely.  I’m making a small test batch as we have lots of green cabbages that need consuming soon.  Though sauerkraut should be white [...]

For the record BigD and myself have teamed up to run a blog together (aaaah, sweet aren’t we?).  It’s over at A Self Sufficient Life and as you may be able to guess its based on the off-grid side of life at our finca.  There’s stuff about reducing energy use, reducing waste, keeping poultry, water [...]

I love composting.  I love that we don’t have to throw any food away (well apart from the occasional cooked bone).  I love that we have somewhere to empty the compost loo bucket and the hen-house cleanings.  Mostly though I love that every year the soil gets better and better and that we never even [...]