French for Tuesday is the only eco living business in Newcastle NSW that connects you with our community helping you live locally and sustainably everyday.

Come and enjoy the eco-living stories of our town!

Stories, News & Voices

Local stories to rethink your everyday for a more eco-friendly lifestyle.

Dean and Honey Love Hot Composting
Dean and Honey Love Hot Composting

This is a guest post article, written by local permaculture advocates Dean and Honey from [...]

Thumbs Up for FOGO Recycling Our Food Waste
Thumbs Up for FOGO Recycling our Food Waste

I’ve always wanted to do the right thing for recycling our food waste. However, we [...]

How Overnight Hiking Aligns with Eco Living
How Overnight Hiking Aligns with Eco Living

Australia’s natural environment, unique bush, creatures and the power of the weather has always amazed [...]

Kindness is a Virtue of The Yoga Place Cafe
Kindness is a Virtue of The Yoga Place Cafe

Photo Credit:  Andsz Kolosovskis from @akphotoco Alyx-Jane, owner of the plant-based cafe The Yoga Place [...]

Why Local Businesses Love Being a Local Business

In the after-hours cosiness of Estabar – opposite Newcastle beach – a small bunch of [...]

The Re: Club is reinventing the way we shop for clothes
The Re: Club is Reinventing the way we Shop for Clothes

The Re: Club is reinventing the way we shop for clothes so we can re-wear [...]

Microplastics are a Gigaproblem
Microplastics are a Gigaproblem

Plastic doesn’t go away nor biodegrade. It just breaks up into irretrievable microscopic, teeny tiny [...]

Books to Motivate You to Start Living a Plastic Free Lifestyle
Books to Motivate You to Start Living a Plastic Free Lifestyle

Just thinking about going plastic-free can be overwhelming. But the more we know, the more [...]

Slow Skin Co. – All Natural Skin Care

Photo Credit: Keira Mason Photography Slow Skin Co. specialises in low tox beauty & skin [...]

Water is More Than A Daily Resource
Water is More than a Daily Resource

My lifelong relationship with water is more than just being a useful and valuable daily [...]

Socks are Miscellaneous Textile Waste
Socks are Miscellaneous Textile Waste

Instigated by an inbox message, I discovered that socks are miscellaneous textile waste that add [...]

DarNET! A Coloured Spectrum of Waste
DarNET! A Coloured Spectrum of Waste

Waste conjures up a motley mess of blacks, greys, and browns – a disarray of [...]

Shop Local. Support Local. Buy Local
Shop Local. Support Local. Buy Local

Shop Local. Support Local. Buy Local. These simple sentences have had greater prominence in our [...]

Handmade Unique Christmas Bon Bons handcrafted by sustainable living shop, French for Tuesday. Newcastle, Australia.
Why I Created these Handmade Unique Christmas Bon Bons

Christmas Day for us is about sharing a baked meal with family and friends. Before [...]

5 Tips for Loving Your Trusty Natural Deodorant Paste
5 Tips for Loving Your Trusty Natural Deodorant Paste

If you’ve recently ditched your traditional antiperspirant deodorant and switched to natural deodorant, here are [...]

Go Outside and Enjoy the Fresh Air
Go Outside and Enjoy the Fresh Air

Taking time to go outside and enjoy the fresh air is so valuable to our [...]

I Made this Practical & Affordable Reusable Shopping Bag
I Made this Practical & Affordable Reusable Shopping Bag

Captured by the design on this t-shirt, I made this practical & affordable reusable shopping [...]

Belongingness to People Makes a World of Difference
Belongingness to People Makes a World of Difference

Twenty years as an early childhood educator broadened my skill of being with and understanding [...]

Sewing Couture-Style Dresses From Waste
Sewing Couture Style Dresses From Waste

In this video, Melinda shares her inspirationally creative Waste to Art story on sewing couture style [...]

Creating Your Wonderfully Strong Sense of Community
Creating Your Wonderfully Strong Sense of Community

Creating your wonderfully strong sense of community, where everyone feels a strong sense of belonging [...]

Stories Start Here

French for Tuesday connects you with people & places in our community, who all help to make a collective difference.

Join me as I share stories, ideas and understandings from my lived experiences and learned knowledge.

Read the stories that have the most meaning for you, such as finding out who is doing great things within our community and how to live a more low tox, eco-friendly lifestyle.

Connecting to Nature
Connecting with People
Live Locally
Live Resourcefully

Workshops & Education

Speaking events & workshops help you take simple steps of change.

Discover Workshops Here

Ready to take the next step in your sustainability journey?

Meeting you in person, be inspired to re-think your everyday and do achievable personal and community actions.

Discover a range of topics relevant to living an eco-friendly lifestyle. Each workshop helps you be more mindful and feel empowered to embrace living resourcefully.

Get in touch with me here to chat about how I can help you with workshops.

Local Eco Living Business Directory

The local directory for you to support our Newcastle (inc. Hunter) & Central Coast businesses with a strong focus on eco living for a healthier planet and community.

Love your Local Here

French for Tuesday helps you live locally and sustainably everyday with the only local eco living business directory in the Newcastle, Hunter & Central Coast regions of NSW. The business directory:

  • Connects you with local Newcastle businesses who genuinely promote sustainable living with a range of upcycled, handcrafted and low tox products.
  • Is your go-to when you need to purchase new, low waste, low tox and eco-friendly products with a conscious approach

What do you want to find today?

Online Shop

The shop you need for treading lightly on the planet

Shop Now

French for Tuesday helps you live locally and sustainably everyday with this unique online shop. The shop encourages you to:

  • Shop secondhand first with a diverse range of quality vintage, retro or lightly used second hand items.
  • Purchase new, low waste, low tox and eco-friendly products with a conscious approach

Hi there! My name’s Mardi.

I’m the founder of French for Tuesday. 

Why the unique name? “Mardi” is a day of the week in the French language! Everything here is a 100% Australian eco-living experience – Welcome!

French for Tuesday is helping you live locally and sustainably everyday.  

Grounded in Newcastle Australia, French for Tuesday is your (im)perfect source of eco living connections, insight, and education, strengthening our commitment to healthy people and planet.

Let’s share the sustainability journey together.