Self-Sufficiency Skills and Wild Food Foraging Blog

Thinking Tools for an Efficient Life
Do you often (or just currently) feel like you are stuck wondering which way to go, feeling overwhelmed at all the tasks and unsure of your best next steps? Or...
Thinking Tools for an Efficient Life
Do you often (or just currently) feel like you are stuck wondering which way to go, feeling overwhelmed at all the tasks and unsure of your best next steps? Or...

Emergency Candles - Birch Bark Wick and Fat Candle
What do you do in a power cut if you run out of candles? How can you make emergency light? I have done lots of 'making light' experiments over the...
Emergency Candles - Birch Bark Wick and Fat Candle
What do you do in a power cut if you run out of candles? How can you make emergency light? I have done lots of 'making light' experiments over the...

I wanted to change the world... but I couldn't ...
I remember seeing this as a postcard on a friends fridge when my children were very small. It resonated so much that I still remember it today. At the time...
I wanted to change the world... but I couldn't ...
I remember seeing this as a postcard on a friends fridge when my children were very small. It resonated so much that I still remember it today. At the time...

Making Candle Wick from Corn on the Cob Fibres
My lovely friend gave me a bag of her allotment veg . Just prepping some for dinner tonight and as usual I get distracted by the awesome potential of plants...
Making Candle Wick from Corn on the Cob Fibres
My lovely friend gave me a bag of her allotment veg . Just prepping some for dinner tonight and as usual I get distracted by the awesome potential of plants...

Raising kids off grid... a beautiful hardship t...
Raising a child is hard , raising three alone is tough, doing it in a remote area with no utilities was a special experience that needed super planning . Always...
Raising kids off grid... a beautiful hardship t...
Raising a child is hard , raising three alone is tough, doing it in a remote area with no utilities was a special experience that needed super planning . Always...

Wild Beauty - Some Unusual Finds in Your Garden
Plants to help increase and decrease the skins Melanin, free alternatives to expensive AHA products, and finally: replacing aloe vera for your skin with some unusual local garden finds... If...
Wild Beauty - Some Unusual Finds in Your Garden
Plants to help increase and decrease the skins Melanin, free alternatives to expensive AHA products, and finally: replacing aloe vera for your skin with some unusual local garden finds... If...