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Health, Lifestyle, Sustainability
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Today is the last day of 2020. What a year it has been! Wasn't easy for sure, for everyone. For us, it is a year where big decisions were made. It is a year with big turning point for us. We packed up our comfortable life in Melbourne, said goodbye to our friends and family and left our beautiful home we've only just finished building 2.5 years ago and moved to a place we've never been, a house we've never seen in real life and not knowing anyone here when we first arrived. It was not an easy decision but we know it is probably one of the best decisions we've ever made, for us and for our little ones. Moving here to Mid Coast NSW is the continuation of our journey back to health. As living simply, sustainably

Health, Recipes
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I feel really blessed  to have learnt so much about ferments and herbs in the last two years from my amazing naturopath and have since experienced first hand the healing from both. Two years ago, our health hit rock bottom. We were constantly sick, and at one point, I was sick for 6 months with no relief. We didn't know much about ferments and herbs at the time and didn't know how to support our weakened immune system to fight diseases. So we just suffered through it all

Health, Uncategorized
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Sorry for the unsightly picture. In case you don't already know, these are chicken feet. And I'm cooking them in my pot. And yes, these feet may not look appetizing but do you know that chicken feet broth is a superfood? Chicken feet is amazing for our health. When cooked slow and at low temperature in water, it gives us a nutrient dense collagen and gelatin rich broth. Collagen and gelatin are great for our skin, but not only that, also for our gut. It has amazing healing properties, and especially for people with distressed digestive system, e.g. an inflamed gut, chicken feet broth is one of the best thing you can have to help heal the inflamed gut lining.  So if you need a boost of collagen and gelatin, boil up some chicken feet, onion, leek, carrot or other veggies. To get

Health, Lifestyle, Sustainability
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It is never too early to get the little ones' hands dirty. Do you know that it is essential that little ones get exposed to dirt? Dirt is full of living microbes, they help build our children's immunity.These days we have adopted an overly hygienic lifestyle. We wash our kids hands with antibacterial wash, we wipe their faces with antibacterial wipes, some even shower them with antibacterial body wash, we sanitise everything in the house and we stop letting our kids play in the dirt.Bad microbes are bad, they can cause our children to be sick. Yes that's true. But do you know that it is not possible go completely avoid bad microbes? The only way to combat this is to have enough good microbes count and a diverse range so that they can keep the bad ones in check. By killing

Health
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This is what we had for breakfast this morning. Fried egg (fried in butter), steak, goats cheese served with homemade tomato sauce, homemade sauerkraut and salad from the garden. We try to build in as much fermented food as possible in every meal we have. Fermented food includes food such as, yogurt, milk kefir, water kefir, kombucha, sauerkraut, kimchi, fermented veggies, fermented condiments, cheese, tempeh, and many more.Fermented food is amazing for your health and this is why.👉 It helps with digestion. It Is packed full of live enzymes and when eaten with your meal, it helps break down food you are eating it with, making the nutrients from the food easier for the body to absorb.👉 It builds your immunity by building the good bacteria in your gut. Fermented food is packed full of beneficial bacteria both in counts and range of

Health, Lifestyle
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We live in an era where convenience takes priority over our health, pre-packaged food to save time, toxic preservatives in our products to keep them longer and powerful 5G internet, to provide faster, stronger wireless network connections. It is the last I want to talk about today, 5G has already been rolled out to parts of the world and is currently being rolled out to Australia. The CEO of Telstra is very proud of the upcoming 5G roll out but no safe study has ever been conducted on 5G. We are a generation of human guinea pigs being tested for something that even common sense will tell you that is just downright dangerous. Despite the mounting evidence suggesting harm, people point out that there are no conclusive scientific studies that EMF radiation can cause cancer and significant health problems. Many years ago,

Health, Lifestyle
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Just scrolling through my old photos and found this precious photo collage of Oliver at around 4.5 months. It brings back lots of memories and I'm sharing my little story with you. I remember that morning I took Oliver to the pediatrician for his severe eczema where he was prescribed steroid cream. Apart from the ezcema, he was also lethargic and warm to the touch. I told the pediatrician he was probably running a temperature and was lethargic. He didn't do any temperature check or say anything and just sent us home with the steroid prescription.After I got home, I noticed little Oliver was even more lethargic and didn't really wake from his sleep and that his temperature was over 39 degrees. I called the nurse on call and was asked to call the ambulance. I called the ambulance and the paramedics

Health, Lifestyle
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Last weekend was one of our busiest weekends, almost on par with the weekend after just having given birth to my boys 😍. We had our first market stall on Saturday and an open house on Sunday for Sustainable House Day with around 150 visitors.We (the whole family) spent the following week being sick, quite sick. Throughout the week,  we had lots of detox bath, high dose vitamin C, we brewed and sipped away our immune boosting herbal tea, chewed raw garlic and simply rested. A week on, we are now in a much better place and are recovering well.I remember just under two years ago, the whole family went through a very rough patch. We battled 6 severe flu in 6 months and I don't remember a day of not having at least one of us being sick. At our

Health
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 recently come across a list of ingredients in Colgate Whitening Toothpaste currently marketed at AUD2.60. This is the kind of cheap toothpaste I have used for over 30 years so I was immediately drawn to the ingredients list. As a huge advocate for everything organic and natural, I am obsessed with the ingredients that go into what I use or consume and I wanted to compare them to the Zacoli Organic Mineral Toothpaste. And