Gardens I really love you, you clean the air I breathe, you cool down summer heat, you provide a beautiful textural changing landscape through the seasons. Your colours, shapes and forms, stunning patterns and the birds you attract contribute a huge positive calming...
My book is out! A book? What book? Since October 2024 I have been working on a book called The Baker’s Percentage about how to make sourdough bread at home. A culmination of over 15 years of home baking led to this. But how it came about was also pure...
Our chook runs have become beautiful. In summer all the roses awaken as well as the grapevines, lime and avocado trees, and Hardenbergia violacea. Roses red, pink, bountiful and decadent in colour and texture. When their petals drop to the ground my hens feast...
I love teaching so very much and I love teaching soap making & essential oil distillation. Soap making is a fascinating alchemy. A simple one, with only three ingredients needed: water, caustic soda, oil/fat. Caustic soda sounds very frightening, but it once...
Come and stay with us, our cottage is gorgeous and I thrive on your visits and our property is trees, and birds and berries and wonder. My love (Ralf) built the ORTO cottage with straw and wood, lime and rich chocolate soil. We were so so so excited when we started...
