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6 Strategies to Create a Self-Sufficient Home That’s Not a Nightmare
All too often I hear of people who are running their dream self-sufficient home, but it’s become a nightmare. They’re working around the house and garden more than ever, are stressed out, and what was fun and exciting when they started out has become a chore and a big...
How To Break Bad Habits And Create New Sustainable Living Habits
If you’re wanting to live a more self-sufficient, sustainable lifestyle, it’s likely you’ll need to break some old, bad habits and replace them with new, sustainable living habits. But how do you break a bad habit? In this post I’ll explain why bad habits are...
How To Create A Weekly Meal Plan
Do you meal plan? *yawn* I know, I once felt that way too. I thought meal planning and an organised kitchen belonged to those “perfect on the surface” mums in their super-neat display homes. Not a creative, messy mum like me. Back in the years BC (before children) I...
Where To Start Your Self Sufficiency Journey
If you’re keen to reduce your impact on the planet and improve your family’s health and well-being in the process, but you’re just not sure where to start, you’re in the right place! In this post, I’ve collated my best tips to start (or up level) your eco journey....
Building A Sustainable Home In The Suburbs Part 1: Planning And Design
If you’ve ever built a new home, you’ll appreciate just how much time and effort goes into planning, designing and building. But what about if you want to take it a step further and make sure that your build is as sustainable as possible? This week on the podcast I’m...
Sustainable Bridal Couture with Lenka Harvey
Last week we heard from Melinda Tually from Fashion Revolution who shared many of the social and environmental issues of the fashion industry with us…as well as some tips for how you can make a difference by asking your favourite fashion brands “who made my clothes?”...
Fast Fashion: Why We Need A Fashion Revolution
If you’re a bit of a mindless consumer when you’re out, shopping and buying lots of new clothing and accessories for your wardrobe, well this week we’re going to change all that. Hopefully we are going to turn you into a more conscious consumer when it comes to...
7 Ways To Eco-fy Your Easter
Like Christmas, although to a much lesser degree, Easter is a time of high consumption. Big feasts, heaps of chocolates…. we all tend to indulge more than normal. As Easter is upon us all this week, I thought I’d share seven ways to make your Easter more sustainable....
Sustainable Style Secrets With Alma Barrero
Given that the average woman only tends to wear around 20% of what’s in her wardrobe and buys the same pieces over and over, I thought it would be a great idea to unpack sustainable style on the blog and podcast this week. And the perfect stylist to help you discover...
Tips On Decluttering And Organising Our Homes …With Helen Butler From Clutter Rescue
This month has all been about Minimalist March in my Self Sufficiency in the Suburbs membership community, and so many of us have been making an effort to get on top of clutter in our homes and lives, and learn to live with less. For some of us, it’s been a bit of a...
How To Preserve Peaches – An Easy Step By Step Guide
Preserving fruit helps to capture the flavours of summer to enjoy all year round …. without the tinned food flavour and without the BPA from the tins' lining. I preserve peaches and other summer fruits like apricots in jars in a very light sugar syrup, so the fruit...
Four Questions You Should Ask Yourself Before Buying Something New
It’s Minimalist March in my Self Sufficiency in the Suburbs community and we’re all encouraging each other to declutter our homes, live with less, and become conscious consumers. As we’re moving house at the end of this year, and don’t want to move a heap of stuff we...
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