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Sustainability

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

Sustainability
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As part of the Sustainable Living Certificate course I'm doing, I am currently learning about BEES, native bees in particular. ❤ Native bees are amazing pollinators, way way better than the European honey bees. And due to the loss of habitat, and being in competition with the European honey bees, the population of our native bees have plummeted significantly. Native bees thrive in the native environment, native plants with flowers are best for them. And the good news is, each of us can contribute to helping our native bees regain their habitat and this is how.🍁 Plant some native flowering plants such as grevellea, bottle brush, native rosemary, native finger lime bush, hardenbergia, or any other bee loving flowering plants. Make sure to plant a diverse range.🍁 Make some simple native bee hives by drilling some holes in different sizes and depth

Lifestyle, Sustainability
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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

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

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

Lifestyle, Sustainability
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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