Hello!

This is a blog about my home and garden.  I am a mum.  A mother of three young children and I have a passion for all of our futures.  I care about what we put in our mouths and where our food comes from.  Therefore this is a blog of passion about my garden, turning what I grow into delicious, healthful meals, about cooking and baking from scratch.  My blog is about slowing life down, about tending to our home grown fruit and veg, learning about what works and what doesn't, outside and in the kitchen.  I want to share with you some of my life, things that work for me and things that don't so we can learn together.

I have been growing vegetables for a few years, sometimes more successfully than others and I have found that sharing information has been my best support.  I hope to share with you the things that I learn and photographs from my home.

In my world it is currently summer, albeit a very mixed sort of summer with rain, cold evenings, interspersed with very hot days.  Its a summer where I have harvested pears before tomato's, where an unexpected few days of heavy rain caused squash end rot (squishy at the end) zucchini.  But with these surprises there has also been bountiful supplies of large juicy grapes, copious amounts of pears raining down from our pear tree and finally zucchinis that fill the children's bellies with zucchini slice at school for days on end.

I hope you enjoy sharing the exploits of my home, kitchen and garden.