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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

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In the last 20 months, we have dedicated ourselves to creating a sanctuary for us and our little ones. We didn't know when we started that it would be such an amazing journey. ❤ We wanted to create beautiful memories for our children in our own garden. A place for us to rest, to play, to learn, to laugh and to cry. And, unsurprisingly, our best weekends and holidays were spent right here. Be it just laying the pebbles, sowing seeds, building garden beds, picking vegetables, planting a tree, digging out some worms and bugs, hunting for snails, cooking some dinners on our rocket stove, watching black cockatoos steal our pine nuts, building a cubby house or just watch the little ones run around and wind each other up.  I have never felt more at peace and grounded in my life as

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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

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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,

Lifestyle, Sustainability
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We just had two very big Saturdays. Two Saturdays ago, we sold our house, not the one we are currently living in, the one we used to live in.Just last Saturday, we bought a new house, by the sea!I told David this is his birthday present. He didn't buy it. He demanded another present. 😂 It was his birthday on Saturday. I don't blame him. We have a dream. Our dream is to achieve full financial freedom and live a simple, fulfilling and sustainable life. It is a journey to get there and I think we are on the right path to achieve just that. I'm sure there will be lots of obstacles along the way, but they will just be part and parcel of the journey. 😍This is our story

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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

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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

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On Sunday, Sustainable Open House day, we opened up our home to 150 visitors. We shared with them our passion for organic and sustainable living. We took them for a walk through our edible garden, we spoke about our simple #nodiggarden using the #backtoeden approach, which is to use tree mulch (leaves and bark) to build up the soil and to enrich it. And with that simple method, we can have an instant garden bed. We showed them our 3 recycled bathtubs which have been converted to instant garden beds, one of which is our edible water garden. Also discussed how we diverted our bath water into our garden so we can have guilt-free bath. As we do not use any chemicals in our bath, mainly just epsom salt and bentonite clay which are high in beneficial trace minerals and greatly benefit