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Eco Kids

Homemade Natural Pink Food Colour

March 15, 2011 by Vesna 10 Comments

By now it is very well known that artificial food colourings are linked to kids behaviour problems. So why not give our kids the best start in life and avoid artificial additives as much as possible. ...

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Filed Under: Eco Kids, Food & Drink Tagged With: food coloring, food colour, homemade food colouring, natural food coloring, natural food colors, natural food colournig, natural food dyes, pink food coloring

Homemade Natural Glue

August 3, 2010 by Vesna

During their childhood, kids use a large amount of glue. Most of them are chemical mixtures with no ingredients listed on the packaging. You can only imagine what's in there. Preschoolers love ...

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Filed Under: Eco Kids Tagged With: Eco Kids, edible glue, glue recipe, homemade glue, how to make glue, natural glue recipe, non toxic glue

Eco-Fun for Kids: Grow Your Veggies and Eat it Too!

October 31, 2009 by Vesna 3 Comments

Engaging kids in the organic gardening from an early age has many benefits: it teaches them about nature, sustainability, environment, patience, to appreciate food, etc.  When they are older, ...

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Filed Under: Eco Kids, Urban Garden Tagged With: container gardening, Eco Kids, green kids, kids fun, kids in garden, organic gardening, Sustainable Living

Food additives: What is your daily dose?

June 19, 2009 by Vesna 5 Comments

Born in Europe, my husband and I were brought up without the fast food chains, on homemade and often home grown food.  I watched my grandma and mum cooking and that experience definitely influenced my ...

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Filed Under: Eco Kids, Food & Drink, Shopping Tagged With: food additive, food additives, food preservatives, sustainable cooking

How to make playdough within minutes

April 22, 2009 by Vesna 11 Comments

During the holidays, as many parents know, kids expect you to entertain them from morning till dawn.  Unless the day is action packed, it's a "boring" day and "I don't have anything to do" day. On ...

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  • First ever cherries from our tree 🍒
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#growyourownfruit #cherries🍒 #summerinoz #urbangardening #melbourneurbangarden #organicbackyardfruit
  • If you have a  bicycle that’s broken or gathering dust, please donate to charity rather than throw it out with hard rubbish collection. Opp-shops will take those in good order. Broken ones too can be donated. Just check charities in your area. Bikes are repaired and sent to people in need to whom a 🚲 will mean the world. I emailed Bicycles For Humanity, a volunteer run charity. They were happy to collect the bike. Easy. Thank you Phil from @b4h.melbourne !
  • I caught the soap making bug a few years ago thanks to a good friend and never looked back. When I’m not baking or teaching baking, I love to mix my own oil combinations and experiment. All ingredients, except the lye I guess, are natural. Pure essential oils are added and sometimes other ingredients like cocoa, ground teas, dried greens, oats, cinnamon, calendula etc. All soaps are made using cold process hence they need to cure for at least 6+ weeks. Now is a good time to make soaps for Christmas presents 🎁. On the picture above I have coconut laundry soap, shampoo soap, some marbled versions and goat’s milk soap. .
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#homemadesoap #sustainableecho #coldprocesssoapmaking #homemadepresents #diysoapmaking #allnaturalsoap #makebreadmelbourne
  • Made virtually kilos of comfrey cream using homegrown comfrey root 😅. Little jars, when jazzed up with labels and ribbons, will make great presents 🎁. Comfrey, also called Knitbone, is easy to grow. Homemade cream can be made from roots in late autumn/winter or from leaves in spring and summer before flowers appear. 
The cream is used in healing broken bones, sprains, bruises, etc.
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  • What’s cooking? A huge  batch of comfrey root cream. Faze one: 4-hour simmer in oil over hot water. .
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  • This old marble cheese slicer is great for cutting soap 👍🏼. #homemadesoap
  • Stinging nettle & beetroot stalks tart. Actually I should call it “whatever greens I could find in the garden” tart, as in there I have some Tuscan kale, silverbeet, parsley, beetroot leaves and wild rocket, too. Love the very distinctive taste of nettles 😋.

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