Easy Homemade Applesauce Recipe

The other day I spotted a jar of applesauce on the shop shelf. I can’t remember ever buying one, as it is so easy to make homemade applesauce. The first time I ate applesauce was in Germany (Apfelmus) where it’s …

How to Remove Coffee/Tea Stains from Cups

 

Is there anything less appetizing then drinking from a coffee or tea stained cup? Have you ever come to an organisation, school etc, wanting to make a cuppa, but couldn’t find one reasonably clean cup? In such situations I …

How to Colour Easter Eggs Naturally

Make your Easter a bit greener and more sustainable by colouring the eggs naturally.  Brown Easter eggs are my favourite for two reasons:

1. the colour is natural and so simple to make,
2. brown is strong enough for our chickens’ brown

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Simple Easter Floral Centrepiece

Seeing all the chocolate Easter bunnies and eggs immediately after Christmas made me instinctively block anything to do with Easter till recently. Now that there are less than three weeks left, I can put my guard down.

My first post on Easter theme is this simple floral centrepiece.

How to Make Hay for Pets

Seeing the photo above, some might ask:  what on earth are we doing here?  Making hay.  But why?  In an inner city backyard?  There are no big meadows or cows close by!

Well, we are using it as the chicken …

Soft Butter Spread Recipe

In my previous post on butter, Butter vs. Margarine, I wrote about why butter is a better option.  As I mentioned at the end, there is one thing about butter that isn’t so handy: it’s solid and hard to …

Christmas at Sustainable Echo

It’s December the 23rd!  Where did all 22 days disappear all so suddenly?  It feels like yesterday when I filled the advent calendar for the kids and took the picture below to post on the 1st!

Nevertheless it was a …

How to Roast and Eat Pumpkin Seeds

Pumpkin seeds are truly nature’s wonder food.  They are full of vitamins and minerals including zinc, iron, magnesium, copper and potassium.  Half a cup pumpkin seeds provides us with our daily requirements of magnesium.  The health benefits of eating pumpkin …

Homemade Vanilla Extract in Less Than 5 Minutes

Vanilla is my all time favourite spice!  There’s something luxurious, exotic and warm in the vanilla scent.  This might be why: vanilla plant belongs to the orchid family growing in tropical regions and is the second most expensive spice (saffron …

Another Use for Skateboards

Recently I’ve found a new use for skateboards.  Not only are they great for spider hideaways and dust collecting in the garage but also very useful for moving heavy objects!

Necessity is the mother of all inventions. Well, here I’m …

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