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Locally Handcrafted Natural Soaps for a Plastic Free Bathroom
Locally Handcrafted Natural Soaps for a Plastic Free Bathroom

Local to Lake Macquarie, NSW Mell started her natural soap business – Honeybee House Skin [...]

Nature Play in Early Childhood - Spark Imaginative Play by Choosing Alternatives to Single-Idea Plastic Toys
Spark Imaginative Play by Choosing Alternatives to Single-Idea Plastic Toys

Photo Credit: Uniting Preschool Caves Beach This guest post story is written by Michelle Ryan [...]

How Our Local Crop Swap Helps Backyard Gardeners
How Our Local Crop Swap Helps Backyard Gardeners

Do you have an abundance of asparagus? A plethora of parsley? Loads of lemons or [...]

The Best Homemade Playdough Recipe that Works
The Best Homemade Playdough Recipe that Works

  Step into every early childhood service, and you’ll always see a table dedicated to [...]

Ways to Use Surplus Homegrown Lemons
Ways to Use Surplus Homegrown Lemons

It’s early August, and our lemon tree is bursting with lemons! We have a whole [...]

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 [...]

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