I'm astonished to discover it's winter already. Summer and Autumn flew by. We've had a lot going on and at times it's felt like we were just keeping our heads above water. Or perhaps that's the wrong metaphor for the hot, dry summer we've just been through. Limping through the desert?? Just getting through, anyway. Life can be tricky sometimes, can't it? We've had our fair share of trickiness over the years and I do occasionally wish for a normal, boring life. At this point in my life I'm not Continue Reading

This time last year we had moved into our little pocket of paradise on the edge of Mt Macedon. Thankfully 2019 brings a quieter and slower January, and I've had a chance to reflect on the last 12 months and ponder where we might like to be in another. My feet are deeply rooted in this soil and the place speaks to me like no other place I've lived. We've worked hard to breathe our life into it over the last 12 months. So much has been achieved and yet I still feel like we're on the edge of a big Continue Reading

In the last post I wrote that we built vegie beds at the end of summer in our proposed kitchen garden space. It was a last minute rush, as I'd pretty much ruled out having the energy to get it done and maintain it over winter.  Then all of a sudden we had a burst of enthusiasm, and decided to get something in so we could learn what works. So one day in early Autumn, we decided to throw it together. There was no time (or budget) to build raised beds and we didn't have much in the way of Continue Reading

It's six months since we settled here on Gunung Willam Balluk country just outside Macedon, and many hours have been passed blissfully imagining the garden paradise we'll co-create here with Mama Nature. My explorations have taken me on a fascinating journey of discovery about the nature of this land before white colonists wrested it out from under the people who had cared for it for countless millennia. How might I find the right balance between allowing the land to return to it's natural state Continue Reading

I called this blog Slow Change because it was going to be the story of how my family and I made small, slow changes to our life. It was all about slowing down and living as though we had bought a little house in the country and were living the simple life. Even though we hadn’t, actually. Even though circumstances made it impossible for us to buy that little house and create that idyllic life of country simplicity. My dreams of kitchen gardens, orchards, home made jams, freshly baked bread, lush Continue Reading