Down To Earth Homesteading Australia

26/03/2026

Mangos, mangos 🥭🥭🥭🥭🥭🥭🥭🥭🥭🥭🥭 everywhere.

I’ve been doing my best not to let a single one go to waste. I've been cooking with them, all the family are eating them fresh, and I have been filling the dehydrator on repeat.

These beauties are fresh, local, spray‑free, and grown with love right here on our little homestead.

If you’d like to grab some, they’re $2 each or 4 for $5.

Every purchase helps our small homestead grow and keeps good food from going to waste.

25/03/2026

Mangos for sale!

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23/03/2026

The new rescue chickens have served their quarantine and today was the first day they were allowed out to free range.

17/03/2026

🌱 We’ve started planting our beds for the season!

🥦 Broccoli
🤍 Cauliflower
🥒 Zucchini

These seedlings are heirloom varieties from Diggers.

We’ve also started trying our own seedling from seed again from heirloom seeds.

🥦 Broccoli
🤍 Cauliflower
🥬 Cabbage
💚 Brussels sprouts

We choose heirloom seeds because:
🌾 They grow true-to-type, so we can save seeds every season and stay self‑reliant.
🌍 They protect biodiversity and keep old varieties alive.
🍅 They’re bred for flavour and nutrition, not supermarket shelf life.

Building a garden that feeds our family and preserves old genetics feels right.

15/03/2026

Babies!!!

15/03/2026

Who wants to play spoto?

11/03/2026

🐔 A Little Homestead Update for Down To Earth Homesteading Australia 🐔

On Monday, we welcomed 30 rescue hens to the homestead. These girls have come from a commercial caged-egg farm, and it’s clear they’ve had a hard life. Many don’t yet know the simple things most chickens take for granted, like how to roost. It’s heartbreaking to see how much they’ve missed out on.

My younger kids have started calling them “the scraggly chickens” because quite a few are still growing their feathers back. They look a bit rough now, but they’re already showing little sparks of personality.

Normally, our homestead is filled with our heritage breeds: Australorps, Golden Laced Wyandottes, Cream Legbars, Easter Eggers, and the rest of our colourful flock. But with everything going on in the world lately, I wanted to make sure we had a few extra eggs coming in without waiting on incubators or grow-out time.

Then I saw a post about these hens needing homes… and that’s how we ended up with 30 ex-cage girls overnight.

For now, they’re in quarantine for a couple of weeks. Their current space is smaller than I’d ideally like, but it’s still a huge step up from where they came from.

Once they’re healthier and ready, they’ll be moving into their own dedicated paddock where they can finally experience life like a hen is meant to. Their days will be filled with roaming around, scratching, dust bathing, sunbathing, and just being chickens.

I can’t wait to watch them transform.

20/02/2026

20/02/2026

Today's harvest

08/02/2026

Abundance feels different when you’ve grown it yourself.

This week’s harvest has been wild, with two varieties of figs filling the dehydrator, our first flush of pears, a box overflowing with green mangos, and a rainbow of eggs from the girls.

Feeling grateful for this little patch of earth and everything it’s giving us right now

If you’re local and would love some fresh, homegrown goodness, we do sell any surplus.

Green mangos are $2 each or $3 for 5.

23/01/2026

Some days, the hardest part of having CHD (and honestly, any chronic health condition) isn’t the symptoms themselves; it’s when it starts affecting everyday life, and there’s nothing you can really do about it.

That feeling of having no control, no way to fix it, no way out.

It’s a strange mix of frustration and trying to learn acceptance, especially when the solutions that once would have been options are no longer.

Send a message to learn more

11/01/2026

So excited to see fruit coming through.