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  • Organic goat milk soap

    A new block of handmade organic goat milk soap is a wonderful thing! Five ingredients: organic olive oil, organic goat milk, sustainable organic palm oil, organic coconut oil, and organic sweet almond oil. Read more

  • Label transparency on products

    Transparency on a label is important. These days, transparency around palm oil used in products is key. My organic goat milk soaps contain sustainable organic palm oil from Palm Done Right. When sourced ethically, Palm oil can be one of the most sustainable and beneficial oils in the world, nurturing animals, people, communities, and the Read more

  • The gist of it.

    I grew up watching my parents grow food for our family. I helped as I could. Inhaled their conversations of plantings and groupings – now I know in permaculture, as guilds. I moved to a small village on Crete, Greece. After a serious motorcycle accident, part of my recovery was the gift of villagers giving Read more

  • Update on the Huajiao (Flower Pepper)

    I am pleased with this crop of Huajiao. Each year it increases. So tasty! In the first picture you can see the black seeds bursting from the shell. The seeds get thrown away, it’s the pink shell which is used. The second picture shows the usable Huajiao pepper. I wonder what next year’s crop will Read more

  • Are you ready? Here we go!

    The Story. Yes, we all have – a beginning to our journey. My earliest and fondest memories, seriously, are ones when I’m outside. Playing, walking, swimming, hiking, creating roadways in the sandbox or the dirt. Observing. Birds. Bird-song. Wind in the trees, flowers, bees, insects in flight, curiosities. I am, at heart, a person geared Read more

  • Huajiao. Flower pepper. (Sichuan pepper)

    September 3, 2021 Not quite ready to pick. “Huajiao”, Flower pepper, also known as Sichuan pepper, is used in stir fry, tea, and foot baths. The pepper (shell is used) can be left as is or ground into a powder. It can also be added to hot oil then removed for a milder flavour. Huajiao Read more