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On Saturday, I went along to the Less is More Festival – it’s an annual community festival & conference which supports skill-sharing and practical sustainability. I went for the first time last year, although the festival has been running for four years now. Last year I went along to see what it was like, and enjoyed it a lot. This year I wanted to get more involved, so I volunteered to give a presentation on urban livestock options for food security. The gist of my talk was that most people, even those with very small back yards or even only […]

Honey doesn’t need a lot of processing, but there is the small matter of separating the honey from the wax of the comb. Normally, you’d just take the entire frame out of the hive, run a hot knife over it to take the caps off the cells, and then use a honey extractor to spin the honey out of the comb. We haven’t yet managed to acquire one of these, so any honey extraction we do is done the hard way: by hand. We’ve been meaning to harvest some honey form our hive for a few months now, but it’s […]

Sorry for the long hiatus, everyone. Life got super busy (not that it isn’t now, but still). Draft #3 of the houseplans are finished, and I think it’s all good this time. We’ll go over them with a fine-toothed comb and make sure, but I think we’re good. Of course, that still means we have two weeks or slightly less to find a builder and get the bank on board, or we’ll be trying to start building in December when all the builders in WA seem to take 2 months off. At any rate, it’ll be soon. I’ve started university […]