Rabbit Yarn Workshop

Sustainable Living

How to preserve local food for winter
Eat delicious, local, sustainable food from your pantry all year round.
How to really grow food in your backyard
Here I share with you the secrets that have transformed me from a gardener with a not-very-productive vegie patch, to growing most of my family's fruit and veg.
A simple composting toilet
Find out how to make a really simple but effective composting toilet for very little money.

The Grimstones

My Shop
Buy my books about The Grimstones: Hatched, Mortimer Revealed, and the Artist's Journal. Also available: postcards and CDs.
The Grimstones
The Grimstones is a gothic fairytale about a girl who can read dreams, a baby boy with three legs, a mother who sew garments lined with warmth and joy, and a grandfather who heals people with his magical concoctions. I created The Grimstones as a marionette performance, and now it's a book series too.

Food and Nutrition

Traditional Foods
My health has dramatically improved after changing my diet for a more traditional way of eating, as advised by Sally Fallon.
Food Flower Poster
Forget the food pyramid! It was developed by the agricultural industry, not by nutritionists. Instead, print this Food Flower poster, which shows a visual guide to choosing nutritious and satisfying traditional foods.
Sourdough bread Recipes
I make delicious sourdough bread in my bread machine - recipes and tips here.
Raw Food
Should we be eating a diet of 100% raw food? Here's what I found by way of "scientific proof".
Raw garlic to cure colds & flu
If you feel a cold or flu coming on, eat a whole clove of raw garlic, three times a day - it works miracles.

19 May 2011

I recently held a workshop at my place, in which I gave participants an overview of what's involved in keeping angora rabbits to make lovely warm winter clothes.

I was so very touched afterwards, when one of the participants sent me this old fashioned card she'd made herself, posted by snail mail, with a little drawing of my very own rabbit. I was amazed by her likeness! And I realised how much it meant to me to get a sweet thank you card with her drawing. Let that be a lesson to me - the value of sending a little thank you.

There was also a write up of the workshop in the Transition Town Darebin newsletter, which tickled me too. I just had to include it here:

"What an inspiring afternoon learning all about Angora Rabbits and how you
can make clothes from their fur. It is the softest stuff I have ever felt
and when knitted into clothes is just divine. What amazed me about this
afternoon was not only has Asphyxia created her own house out of mudbrick,
created a garden that supplies oodles of fruit and vege but also has an
animal that supplies her with wool to create her own clothes. The rewards
of this type of lifestyle are huge. Asphyxia mentioned wanting to see if
she could live like a �medieval woman�- what a great aspiration in this fast
paced, consumer orientated society." (Briony)

Aww... shucks. Thanks Briony!

19 May 2011 in Angora Rabbit | Permalink

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