by Laura | Mar 2, 2014 | Chemical Free Living, Sustainable Eating
Can you recall what propelled you to embrace clean eating and organically grown foods? Did it coincide with pregnancy, weaning your baby onto solid foods or was it a gradual adoption over time? I’ve always been mindful of eating healthy but a chronic health issue in...
by Laura | Sep 9, 2013 | Sustainable Eating
For as long as I can remember I have loved cooking. Some of my fondest memories as a young girl involve me sitting on a stool at the kitchen bench helping my mother prepare dinner. Whether it was chopping vegies for a pot of soup, mincing meat for pasties, or sifting...
by Laura | Jul 9, 2013 | Sustainable Eating
Save money, improve your health and reduce your household’s waste by making your own stock from scratch. Winters in my childhood home were characterised by inside games, hearty comfort food and a pot of stock on the stove. Not surprisingly, I was fortunate to...
by Laura | Nov 14, 2011 | Sustainable Eating
There is no doubt that we’re heading into the busiest period of the year. Christmas preparations aside, I’m referring to the drive of the home cook and gardener to preserve the delicious summer fruits and vegetables to enjoy year round. Before the days of...
by Laura | Apr 16, 2011 | Sustainable Eating
A week or so before Easter Sunday each year I get caught up in the excitement of the season and bake a batch of organic Hot Cross Buns using my recipe below. Hot Cross Buns,Hot Cross Buns,One a penny,Two a penny,Hot Cross Buns. My bet is that when pennies were the...
Laura Trotta is one of Australia’s leading home sustainability experts. She has a Bachelor of Environmental Engineering, a Masters of Science (in Environmental Chemistry) and spent 11 years working as an environmental professional before creating her first online eco business, Sustainababy, in 2009. She has won numerous regional and national awards for her fresh and inspiring take on living an ‘ecoceptional’ life (including most recently winning the Brand South Australia Flinders University Education Award (2015) for the north-west region in SA and silver in the Eco-friendly category of the 2015 Ausmumpreneur Awards). With a regular segment on ABC Radio and with her work featured in publications like Nurture Parenting and My Child Magazine, Laura is an eco thought leader who’s not afraid to challenge the status quo. A passionate believer in addressing the small things to achieve big change, and protecting the planet in practical ways, Laura lives with her husband and two sons in outback South Australia. 
