Welcome!

Welcome to our little corner of the internet.

I have been known to neglect a blog a time or two and am attempting to rectify that again!

It was always my dream to have a big family, but when I tell people we have six kids (including a set of twins), their reactions are mixed. I’m either brave, amazing, crazy or blessed, depending who you ask. 

That’s complicated by their age range — currently 16 to 7 — and the fact they all have allergies and intolerances that make a lot of food problematic. To get around the latter I cook a lot from scratch, and to avoid having to piles the horde into a car twice a day I home school. 

That helped, but it’s still hard to raise six kids with a husband who’s working long hours running his own retail business. We needed a change, so we decided to go bush to leave behind the rat race, the waste and frustration. We sought a simpler life and a smaller footprint. 

We decided to document our journey to help others who want to follow us into a better, simpler, more sustainable life. We hope you can learn from my research and our (hopefully infrequent) mistakes.