Two dinner plates pictured in a farmhouse kitchen before a woodburning range cooker. Each plate contains a serving of vegetarian mince and tatties with seasonal green vegetables.
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From Scratch Cooking: How to Serve Up Three Home-Cooked Meals Every Day!

Are you trying to fuel your family with healthy, home-cooked food? Are you wondering how to find the time to dish up three wholesome meals every day? Then look no further! Here’s how I manage it. Appraise Your Current Routine If you aspire to create three home-cooked meals every day, but you’re currently struggling to…

Freshly baked sourdough bread and homemade almond croissants, on a cooling rack in front of a wood-burning range in a farmhouse kitchen
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Working Towards Self-Sufficiency: 10 Food Items I No Longer Buy

Are you trying to make more of your meals from scratch? Maybe you’re interested in producing your own food and eating more seasonally? Here on the smallholding, eating freshly prepared food, made with seasonal home-grown ingredients is the main objective! Home-grown, freshly cooked food tastes so much better, it creates very little waste and there…

From above of wicker basket with vegetables and fruits placed in zero waste packaging with eco bags and glass jars with products on sunny day
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How to Cultivate a Zero-Waste Lifestyle

Are you working towards a more eco-friendly lifestyle? Are you wondering how to approach life with a zero-waste mindset? In this post, I outline the key tenets of the zero-waste movement. And I’ll explore the swaps you can make to minimise waste in every area of your life. What does “Zero-Waste” actually mean? The zero…

A farmhouse kitchen. The washing machine has been extracted from under the counter top and is in the middle of the room.

How to Make Your Laundry Routine More Eco-Friendly

Have you ever considered the impact that your laundry habits might have on the environment? Would you be prepared to implement some changes to make your laundry routine more eco-friendly? This week, our washing machine broke down. We inherited the machine when we bought the house six years ago, though we think it had only…