Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Nov 24, 2009, 3:59 pm
The Tommy Toe cherry tomato I planted in late winter started fruiting last week, with the normal large, round cherry toms. However now, they are starting to look like this! A miniature 'normal&#...
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Nov 22, 2009, 8:30 pm
Yesterday we celebrated Miss Seven's impending birthday with "High Tea". I've been collecting proper bone china tea cups from Op-shops for a few weeks, and we set the table with the 'goo...
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Nov 18, 2009, 5:31 pm
For the Aussies: Spotlight has 20% off homewares today until 9pm, and I just picked up three 3 litre preserving jars for $8 each. I normally buy preserving jars second hand - I use them for storing m...
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Nov 17, 2009, 5:10 pm
A few weeks ago, whilst staring dejectedly at the piles of stuff I still have sitting around the house with no permanent home since we turned our study/office into a bedroom, it suddenly occurred to m...
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Nov 16, 2009, 11:18 pm
I'd no sooner posted yesterday, whinging about my sinus infection, when my inbox started filling up with emails from you lovely people passing on your favourite remedies. Thank you! Unfortunatel...
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Nov 15, 2009, 5:00 pm
Hello everyone. Sorry for going all incommunicado, but I've been struggling with a sinus infection all week. Today I am totally shattered after three nights effectively sans sleep, not helped l...
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Nov 9, 2009, 9:17 pm
Rebatched wheat germ & sunflower oil soap: pure soap, grated, mixed with wheat germ & sunflower oil and enough boiling water to just combine, rolled into balls and dried for 48 hours before use. Noic...
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Nov 8, 2009, 10:42 pm
The Russian garlic is ready to harvest (all five surviving plants ;-) The Melbourne Market and Australian White won't be far behind. Baby figs are forming on my baby fig tree... I finally manage...
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Nov 6, 2009, 4:03 pm
**OK, so I warned you that an image-heavy post was coming LOL. Forgive the quality of the images though, it's been overcast here the last few days and the light is pretty awful.** Anyway, as I m...
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Nov 5, 2009, 6:56 pm
I've run out of this yummy sauce, and I can't for the life of me find an old photo of my last batch, so I'll have to update this post when I make my next one! Like all chilli products, ad...
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Nov 4, 2009, 3:30 pm
We managed to get around 5 kilos of mulberries off our little tree before the birds discovered it. At first, the birds landed on the top branches - which I can't reach anyway - so I didn't mi...
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Nov 2, 2009, 5:58 pm
I've been making my own tea tree oil deodorant for myself and hubby for a few years now. I am allergic to the aluminium salts in conventional anti-perspirants, so have been buying aluminium-free ...
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Nov 2, 2009, 4:44 pm
Our local Trash and Treasure market was on this past Sunday; we haven't been for ages but there are a number of things I am looking for, so I decided to pack everyone up and head off early for a s...
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Nov 2, 2009, 2:36 am
Hello! Sorry for the absence but I am having a love/hate relationship with my 'puter at the moment. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I love the access to other people in the world with similar goals in life it ...
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Oct 23, 2009, 5:34 pm
I love my slow cookers* (aka crock pots), I don't know how I would have gotten by without them once I had kids. The beauty of being able to sort out dinner first thing in the morning and then hav...
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Oct 23, 2009, 12:14 am
Tomorrow- October 24 - is the Global Day of Climate Action, organised by 350.org, with events organised to take place all over the world . Go here to find an event near you! Unfortunately, my daugh...
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Oct 22, 2009, 4:48 pm
I love a good quiche, and this is my favourite stand-by recipe which I mix up by alternating whatever greens I have in the garden at the time -usually spinach in winter, silverbeet or rainbow chard i...
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Oct 20, 2009, 6:10 pm
Mmmm, our home grown fruit salad is looking good, but it seems to be missing something... Ah yes. Blueberries! Lucky they are just starting to ripen then, I picked my first handful today :-) Yum...
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Oct 19, 2009, 7:32 pm
In short: Love. It. Amanda Blake Soule is the author of one of my must-read blogs, Soule Mama, and her fabulous first book The Creative Family, is a firm favourite around here. In Handmade Home: Sim...
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Oct 18, 2009, 6:48 pm
Oh my aching arms! We had a big weekend in the garden, and my poor neglected vegie patch looks a little loved again. Hubby also made a new garden bed out the front for me, which will eventually bec...
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Oct 16, 2009, 5:55 pm
Since we have a mulberry tree, I would like to get a few silkworms for my girls to experience, but my tree is only three years old and I am worried about stripping all the leaves off it if they turn o...
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Oct 15, 2009, 4:24 pm
It's not quite tomato season at my place yet, but I'm nearly out of my favourite home made tomato sauce (eek!), which has prompted me to share my recipe. The recipe originally came from a frie...
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Oct 14, 2009, 4:53 pm
So it's Blog Action Day, a day where we can all post something about Climate Change to help make a difference. I feel like I post something indirectly related to it every day LOL, but there is a ...
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Oct 12, 2009, 6:18 pm
I watched a documentary on the ABC last week, about a couple who got married in a traditional tribal wedding in a tiny village on Vanuatu and lived with the people for a while. On their return to Syd...
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Oct 10, 2009, 6:23 pm
Oh my poor neglected garden! It's quite a disgrace out there at the moment; big bare patches, winter vegies overblown and going to seed left right and centre, seedlings too big for their pots and...
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Oct 10, 2009, 4:48 pm
A heartfelt thanks to Alicia and The Whiney Fairy for the blog awards they have recently bestowed upon me. Cheers guys! And huge apologies to the others who have also passed on awards to me and whom...
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Oct 8, 2009, 4:02 pm
We recently ran out of our usual (organic, Fair Trade) hot chocolate mix which I had stocked up when it was on sale some time ago. Since I recently bought (organic, Fair Trade) cocoa in bulk, I f...
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Oct 4, 2009, 7:29 pm
A big thank you to everyone who commented on my last post - you guys are the greatest! I will be checking out some great links and books this week :-) As it turns out, I didn't have to go very f...
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Oct 2, 2009, 7:02 pm
I know it's because I'm tired and not 100% well, in combination with the media reporting of the recent earthquakes and tsunamis in Samoa and Indonesia this week, but I've got a bad case of...
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Oct 1, 2009, 5:46 pm
My apologies for the lack of Friday recipes lately! I have now transferred all the recipes from my old cooking blog and I've been too busy lately to cook anything new - we've been relying on ...
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Sep 30, 2009, 5:35 pm
Happy Birthday Wild Child :-) I'm glad that you love the bean bags/juggling bags I stayed up late sewing last night, At least one of your gifts was homemade!
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Sep 29, 2009, 5:14 pm
My first coffee berries have ripened! All two dozen of them LOL. Hardly worth all the effort to pick and treat them, but will be interesting to have a go anyway :-)
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Sep 28, 2009, 5:39 pm
Mulberry juice stained fingers :-)
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Sep 27, 2009, 7:48 pm
Although I was sad to see them go, our visitors departed last week and we then headed off for a weekend away in the Blue Mountains to celebrate the girl's birthdays: a day of Harry Potter-inspired...
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Sep 22, 2009, 6:09 pm
We woke up to an eerie orange glow in the sky this morning: Visibility is still about 300m: I'd hate to think how many tonnes of topsoil from the South Australia and the Northern Territory is bl...
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Sep 22, 2009, 5:17 am
My first Youngberry flower and buds! I might get my first fruit off them this year perhaps?
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Sep 17, 2009, 8:06 pm
Sorry everyone, I've been overcome by Slack Blogger Syndrome, LOL. I'm here, and I'm slowly adjusting our routine to accommodate the three days I'm babysitting, but we've got visi...
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Sep 13, 2009, 5:04 am
Despite being rudely - and none-too-carefully - transplanted a few weeks ago plus an apparent lack of bees whilst flowering, two out of three dwarf peaches have a few fuzzy baby peaches on them. The ...
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Sep 7, 2009, 5:27 pm
The dwarf black mulberry is loaded, and they are tantalisingly close to being ripe. We just have to beat the birds.
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Sep 6, 2009, 8:10 pm
Pink Iona grapes. Chosen for their resistance to mildew and suitability for coastal locations. Sadly, not seedless, but rather tasty and quite hardy.
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Sep 5, 2009, 6:21 pm
To all the Dads out there :-D DH was accosted in bed by three excited little girls bearing gifts very early this morning LOL, followed toasted home made crumpets & honey. Not as schmick-looking as t...
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Sep 3, 2009, 6:28 pm
Marinated feta is delicious - and expensive! It's so easy to make though (and one day soon I'll get around to making the feta too ;-) Ingredients 1 large organic lemon 500g (1 pound) good fe...
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Sep 2, 2009, 7:37 pm
Bulk dog food cooking day; this recipe, quadrupled. Frozen in Chinese takeaway containers, which I won't use for human food; The fats in foods act as solvents to leach plasticisers from the plast...
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Sep 1, 2009, 8:48 pm
Newly delivered in to my hot little hands. Now to find the time to actually read it... And Kate, your parcel is finally on it's way :-)
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Aug 31, 2009, 6:09 pm
Golden Dorsett apple blossoms.
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Aug 30, 2009, 9:47 pm
A dishcloth for Kate. Unbleached 100% cotton (Cleckheaton). One giveaway parcel almost ready to post.
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Aug 28, 2009, 5:10 pm
Self-sown 'Freckles' Cos lettuce, almost salad-ready.
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Aug 28, 2009, 3:43 pm
As I mentioned in my previous post, I've left writing for the Simple-Green-Frugal Co-Op because I simply don't have the time at the moment. Whilst many of my posts there were built upon posts...
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Aug 28, 2009, 4:07 am
Or, how to disguise your leftovers ;-) Calzone is just a fancy name for pizza pockets, and they are so quick and easy: take your favourite pizza dough recipe (I use my beer-based pizza dough recipe b...
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Julie G. posted an article on Towards Sustainability - Aug 27, 2009, 7:01 pm
Yup, it's my turn to post again! Click on the banner to join me there: Today I've posted about the virtues of pesto! Sadly, it is my last post at the Co-Op, although I may be able to rejoin ...
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