Self-Reliant Living

Ideas for decorating your home grown gourds, to use as gifts or around your home. A little paint or glue and your imagination is all it takes - and it's been virtually free!

Gourds are a fascinating and versatile item to decorate with or give as gifts and suprisingly easy to grow on any amount of land. Give a gourd vine a try and you'll have next Years' Christmas gifts ready from your own garden.

I would normally say that machines are making us lazy and we'd be better off without them. On further pondering, though I have decided that some have their place in the self reliant lifestyle.

It is no longer winter but it isn't quite spring yet. This is the limbo period for gardeners and one that is often met with frustration. This is a run down of what is happening in my garden, and the plans I have for these fingers that ache to plant seeds ...

A few ideas and recipes for freezing bulk foods.

The freezer can be used to work to it's capacity and help your family save time and money. The OAMC method is not a new one, but a tried and true way to help along your path to self reliance and frugality.

With a matter of days to go until Christmas, there may be some panic at the thought of going back to the shops again to search for a gift. Here are some simple and inexpensive ideas to help combat the rush at this tie of the year. Home made Christmas gifts ...

It does seem that Christmas has come around ever so quickly yet again - but is that a bad thing? Focusing on what this season is really supposed to be about can help us to discard the parts we don't like.

After hearing my lifestyle be described as 'idyllic', I decided to let you in on a few of the more suprising elements of farm life.

Spring is here in Australia and everywhere we turn is the evidence of Mother Nature's bounty and beauty. An overview of our family's latest events and a celebration of earth in her glory.