Urban Homestead South Africa

Follow our adventures as we grow our own vegetables, cook from scratch, learn skills of a bygone era and move to a frugal simple lifestyle.

Saturday, April 18, 2020

Growing food in a time of crisis

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We started growing food in 2010...I thought it would be a good life skill for my then 4 homeschooled children. For the next 8 years we slowl...
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Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Life's ticking along

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It has been an absolute age since I last posted on this blog but here I sit and think what can I say? While little has been posted about our...
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Saturday, April 16, 2016

Urban bee keeping adventures...

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Back in December 2015 I had one of my long standing urban homesteading dreams realised as we became the proud caretakers of 4 empty hives. Y...
Friday, March 25, 2016

Dear little neglected blog

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Dear Little Neglected Blog, While I haven't been spending much time with you lately, I just want to know that I think of you often. I ...
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Monday, January 11, 2016

10 quick water saving tips

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Around the country we are watching the horror of living in a drought. We have friends who farm in the Free State whose water supply is nearl...
Sunday, December 20, 2015

I've got a bottle full of sunshine

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To my great surprise I have found myself on the saddle of a mountain bike again after many years. Prior to 2010 mountain biking was a big th...
Tuesday, December 15, 2015

The bee-ginning of our urban bee adventure

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We love honey. And without the Cape honey bee we would have a problem in our garden. We have heard scary reports over the years of bees d...
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