On the cover of Grass Roots Magazine!

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.

23 February 2012

On the cover of Grass Roots Magazine!

My little family and I are on the cover of the current (Feb/Mar 2012) issue of Grass Roots magazine. I love Grass Roots - I used to read it back when I was building my house, for inspiration. Then somehow I lost track of the mag and hadn't read it for years. But this year it's found me again, and I'm eating up all the great stories as fast as I can - so many tips and ideas for living sustainably, sufficiently and so on. I've realised there's a great community out there of people who can already do all the things I'm trying to learn to do, and that I can access them via the mag. So thanks, Grass Roots, for coming back into my life :) And thanks, for publishing such a lovely story too.

The story is a nice run down of all that is self-sufficient about the way Paula, Jesse and I live. You can download and read it here. (PDF file: 9652.5K)

23 February 2012 in My Art Journal, Riot for Austerity | Permalink

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