Make your own hand lotion: a silky smooth lotion bar for those who love gardening with bare hands.
I love gardening with bare hands – feeling the soil and sensing it’s moisture, being able to gently…
Great reads to inspire living a simple, meaningful and interesting life.
I love to read really good non-commercial magazines. I leave them in different places around the house for…
Plastic-free shopping – how to avoid coming home with a bagful of unnecessary plastic.
When reducing plastic waste is a core goal while out shopping for household needs, there are so many…
Healthy Future for Children – Nature Kids design an ecovillage
Children designed and made an ecovillage at Crystal Waters Permaculture Village this Saturday. They immersed themselves in design thinking…
Plastic-wrap free food – DIY beeswax cloths
(for the latest version of this post, and a link to my 5 minute film showing how to…
The simplest, easiest and healthiest homemade ice-cream
Most kids love icy-poles or ice creams on hot summer days – my kids are no exception. As…
Pop-up Carport Cafe – cultivating community conversation & conservation through youth social enterprise
All afternoon people from around our ecovillage community and beyond were dropping by our carport to visit Maia’s…
On happiness, gratefulness, simplicity, common sense and meaning
We all want to be happy. This is something we all share in common. Gratefulness brings happiness. It…
Home grown bananas – making good use of the surplus
We’ve just grown some bananas for the first time in our permaculture garden here and they are absolutely…
A simple children’s party plan for healthy food and minimal waste
Birthday parties are usually rife with waste – cleaning up a mountain of things like disposable plates, cups,…