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Our Nourish Nest

It’s about nourishing mind, body & spirit to be the best we all can be. It means giving as well as taking, and sharing.

At Our Nourish Nest an eco & sustainable lifestyle means taking really good care of ourselves, our friends, family, community, & Mother Earth, & giving as well as taking & sharing. For us at Our Nourish Nest a green, eco and sustainable lifestyle is about taking really good care of ourselves, our friends, family, community, and Mother Earth. It’s about nourishing the amazing mind, body and spirit

given to each of us, so we can all reach our full potential to be the best we can be, and support others to do the same. We’re truly passionate about some wonderful things… about quality real food, recycling, reclaiming and upcycling, waste reduction, especially plastic waste reduction, creativity, natural pest control to save wildlife, permaculture and organic gardening, supporting other fantastic small businesses, sustainability, filtered rainwater, solar power and more. We are careful with what we buy, our bin often doesn’t go out for collection for 6 weeks or more, we mend or alter our clothes when we can, and repair broken items, and use non or low-tox products around the home, from paint to pest control, food wraps to cookware that lasts a lifetime. We live our passion and share it on social media and in workshops. We’re especially passionate about real, good food, both nutritious and a little indulgent, but always top quality, as chemical free and seasonal as possible. We love growing it, cooking it, eating it, and making it available to others. We grow as much of our own fruit, vegetables and herbs as we can in quality soil, fed from our own composts and worm farms, using no chemical pesticides, and giving back to the earth. We savour the seasonal when it is fresh, available, abundant and affordable, and enjoy the traditionally preserved, dried and fermented, pickled fruits, vegetables, teas and spices created at the time when the fresh ingredients are full of goodness. Our life overall, and especially our low-tox life, based on permaculture and organic gardening principles, is a life that has nourished us and we are excited to share our experiences, knowledge, produce and products with you in workshops, through our online insights and open days, or via the wonderful products we sell.

12/07/2024

Gnarly Turmeric- somehow both beastly and beautiful ❤️ We always wonder what shapes the next crop will offer up. What we do know is that it is full of healthy goodness 🧡

10/07/2024

More knitted pouches destined for WIRES to help the rehabilitation of injured native wildlife.

25/06/2024

Sunny winter pruning day :-)

21/06/2024

One by one our citrus trees are being pruned. It always feels somewhat brutal, but it has to be done for the health and vitality of the tree.

11/06/2024

Interested in the power of the humble earthworm? This podcast is brilliant! Listen to hear how the humble earthworm can help to sanitise human water in developing countries, in remote and poorer areas in particular. In killing pathogens, the worms reduce the spread of disease and help create fertiliser.

‎Show Solvable, Ep Global Poverty is Solvable - 3 Sept 2019

02/06/2024

Flashback to 7 years ago when we had chicks in the dining room and Chris and brother-in-law worked hard to build them their first home. The chicken run and garden sure have changed since then!

28/05/2024

25/05/2024

Looks like we’re very lucky to get a pink egg! So much so that our photo has been featured!

25/05/2024

Woohoo! Two of the chicks we hatched 3.11.23, and have lovingly reared since then, have laid their first eggs! Look at the colours! A light dusky pink and an incredibly dark khaki that the photo just doesn’t do Justice. Bloody marvellous!

23/05/2024

Need wood split? It’s one of the services we provide. We’re locking in wood splitting days and times now, so if you have logs that you need split into more manageable sizes to help keep you warm this winter, text or call me on 0410745456.

23/05/2024

Thanks to these 11 1/2 kg of just harvested sweet potato, we have reached over 250 kg of homegrown fruit, veggies and herbs for this year so far. Our target is 500 kg, or half a tonne! This does not include anything that we grow that goes to our beautiful chickens, or into the worm farms or compost.

22/05/2024

(Almost) Lost traditions…

Another unique Irish culinary invention, mentioned in an earlier post, is buttered eggs, a unique and tasty way to preserve eggs.

Invented in time immemorial, probably due to the proliferation of butter on the island, the Irish developed this method to preserve eggs. It became so popular that the exportation of buttered eggs to England numbered in the tens of thousands of dozens every year during the English colonial times. Rubbed over freshly laid eggs, the butter melts, forming a thin protective layer.

Because the shell is porous, it absorbs the butter to form a more protective seal. Curious, I took one home. Soft-boiled, it tasted fresh from the hen, the yolk the color of sunshine, the white carrying with it a whiff of cream. Today, buttered eggs are a delicacy, largely vanished from Irish farmyards and pantries. You can’t butter eggs by machine, as it’s an intimate practice involving the hand. Every one needs to be done by hand. Farmers’ wives used to say it was a task most difficult to execute in winter when the butter was harder and their hands were colder. So perhaps, in addition to the egg and the butter, what I taste is the memory of an Irish woman whose palm coaxed butter lovingly all the way around a fragile shell, hoping to preserve it for as long as she could.

That might seem counterintuitive. Why waste butter on the outside of an egg? But clever Irish farmers had hit on buttering eggs as a way to preserve them during winters when hens produce less. Taking freshly laid, still-warm eggs, farm families rolled them in their buttery palms. The butter helped solidify the hot, brittle shells, sealing off the yolky contents from the outside air.

Buttered eggs take on a shiny gleam. And, as an added bonus, the taste of butter permeates the egg, making it even richer when cracked open and cooked. Eggs preserved this way keep for up to six months in a cool place, and I have had them last even longer. It’s not surprising that buttered eggs were a Cork specialty, seeing as it’s also home to the Cork Butter Museum, a tribute to the region’s status as a butter-producing powerhouse.

They can be found at markets in Ireland, and I make them regularly as a homestead specialty. If you keep chickens or know someone local who does, then you can too!

20/05/2024

The last of the pumpkins, some mandarins, and limes, help edge us towards the quarter of a tonne mark of homegrown fruit and vegetables for the year.

16/05/2024

Just checked on the chickens… I don’t think this one is going to lay any eggs!

Is not unusual for young possums to not make it back to their home at the end of their nocturnal wandering. Like most teenagers, they lose track of time! 😝 This little one has been safe in our hen house and will leave tonight to eat some goodies from our garden and find its way back to its usual home.

15/05/2024

So, the girls are finally getting a little bit of sunlight! This, combined with the fact that our five over-sexed teenage roosters (no other way of putting it) are finally going to a new home this coming Friday, should mean we start seeing a couple of eggs again, as we’ve had only 1 in several weeks. The girls have been a bit stressed with the boys amorous advances and the boys hogging heaps of food! The good news is that the boys are going to 2 homes where they will be used for breeding, rather than the dinner table.

Given chickens need a certain number of hours of sunlight to aid egg production, and we’ve certainly not had much sunlight in the last few weeks here in Bundeena, we were prompted to think about what this means in Scandinavian countries, and other countries in those regions, for about 6 months of the year. Turns out they use a lot of artificial lights to get their egg production happening. Living in Australia this is something most of us have never considered before. Just some of our chicken inspired thinking we thought we’d share, along with a wish for you to have a truly beautiful day!

04/05/2024

Rainy day harvest 🧡

04/05/2024

Look at these beauties!

01/05/2024

Ripe and ready 🍍

01/05/2024

Who doesn’t love a wee happy pumpkin?

01/04/2024

Fruit salad bowl from the garden ❤️ Dragonfruit, passionfruit, persimmon and mango 🥭

28/03/2024

Just look at the wee puggle pineapple go!

28/03/2024

What this watermelon vine thinks it is going to achieve this late in the season, and climbing up the veggie enclosure netting, we’re not sure. Still, we’re always ready to experiment and cheer on the underdog.

22/03/2024

We diverted over 78 kilos from landfill so far. Interested in making a difference? Go to to find out more and get a credit using code: 6b8eda

21/03/2024

Fruit treats today with a few ripe mangoes, a lovely persimmon and the dragonfruit coming along with a beautiful pink bush.

16/03/2024

The regal, hawk like and ultra inquisitive Esmeralda 🥰

16/03/2024

The stunningly coiffured Lucinda ❤️

16/03/2024

The beautiful Shy shades of Sui 🧡

16/03/2024

The girls have officially been named. Please meet sleek Morticia, with her fabulously feathered shiny black feet.

12/03/2024

There’s always something to brighten the day, nourish the body, and lift the soul in our garden 🧡

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As we celebrate the start of the first laying season of our pullets we hatched late last year, we also celebrate the life and loss of two of our flock. Jodie (in the video) was an ISA Brown dumped in the Royal National Park, presumably because of her age and because she stopped laying regularly, and was rescued by a beautiful local lady and came through to us via the local WIRES lady. She wasn’t in great shape, and it looked like she’d been clipped by a car, but we nursed her back to health and she even gave us a few eggs! She was with us for just over a year, living the dream with lots of greens and fresh mulch and friends, and she passed away peacefully, just a few weeks ago. In the last few days we have been watching the peaceful and steady journey towards the end of the life of one of our original chickens, sweet white brown flecked Helga. She was with us from about three months of age until this morning, and was over seven years old. She spent her entire life free ranging, with the protection of Ralph the Rooster, and the companionship of her flock, especially her Besty Magda. She spent hours in the warmth of the sun and fresh mulch yesterday, peacefully snoozing, and then spent her last evening in a freshly cleaned coup, nestled in organic wood shavings and took her last breath having lived her best life. Thanks for the eggs, the soul fertiliser, natural pest control, and all the chicken antics girls.

Eggplant bonanza!

The pollinators are busy 🧡

Take one minute out of your day right now. Play this video. Close your eyes. Take three long, slow, deep breaths in and out to start. Listen to the sounds of the bush. Let your awareness move from one sound to another. Breathe, relax and be still and aware for just one minute and then check on either yourself to see how much better you feel. 🧡

Two flocks become one as our not so little chicks join the rest of the chooks 🐓

Chris’ estimate was a bit low for our first pumpkin of the season. It weighed in at 7.6 kilos!

Keeping the chooks cool with a water mister. Check on all your animals today in the heat, make sure they have fresh water and are as cool as possible. And check on each other too ❤️

That awkward stage between being cute and fluffy and getting the proper chook feathers 😝 The tiny velociraptors are getting quite tame, which is lovely 🥰

Growing up so fast, and trusting the lady with the treats!

What is the current term for this? A curtain of beans? A veil of legumes? A purple haze? ;-)

Why do kids play with their food???

Happy little family ❤️

Having a good feed and rocking out to Chris’ music 😆

We’ve woken to 8 chicks in total this morning, with 2 freshly hatched. 3 more to go! Mama is having a good feed, the chicks are all doing well, and there’s lots of sweet chirping.

There’s tapping on the inside of the eggs! Mama Magda is quite active too. The babies are getting ready to be welcomed into our brood ❤️ One egg was cracked/smashed the other day, but when we looked the chick clearly wasn’t as formed as it should have been by that stage. Instinct says Mama knew and took care of it before it rotted and affected the other eggs. Quite Amazing. We’ll keep you posted…

New growth and blossoms galore on the mango!

Jodie and Danelle are enjoying a good dust bath in the sun. Is a joy to see, given Jodie came to us injured, skinny and a little sparse in feathers after being dumped in the national park. She’s soo happy and healthy now that she’s even laying the odd egg!

You can see why it’s called Rainbow Chard. Just look at the colours! And listen to the sound of greens so fresh they speak ;-)

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Our Nourish Nest

For us at Our Nourish Nest a green, eco and sustainable lifestyle is about taking really good care of ourselves, our friends, family, community, and Mother Earth. It means giving as well as taking, and sharing. It’s about nourishing the amazing mind, body and spirit given to each of us, so we can all reach our full potential to be the best we can be, and support others to do the same.

We’re truly passionate about some wonderful things… about quality real food, recycling, reclaiming and upcycling, waste reduction, especially plastic waste reduction, creativity, natural pest control to save wildlife, permaculture and organic gardening, supporting other fantastic small businesses, sustainability, filtered rainwater, solar power and more. We are careful with what we buy, our bin often doesn’t go out for collection for 6 weeks or more, we mend or alter our clothes when we can, and repair broken items, and use non or low-tox products around the home, from paint to pest control, food wraps to cookware that lasts a lifetime. We live our passion and share it on social media and in workshops.

We’re especially passionate about real, good food, both nutritious and a little indulgent, but always top quality, as chemical free and seasonal as possible. We love growing it, cooking it, eating it, and making it available to others. We grow as much of our own fruit, vegetables and herbs as we can in quality soil, fed from our own composts and worm farms, using no chemical pesticides, and giving back to the earth. We savour the seasonal when it is fresh, available, abundant and affordable, and enjoy the traditionally preserved, dried and fermented, pickled fruits, vegetables, teas and spices created at the time when the fresh ingredients are full of goodness.

Our life overall, and especially our low-tox life, based on permaculture and organic gardening principles, is a life that has nourished us and we are excited to share our experiences, knowledge, produce and products with you in workshops, through our online insights and open days, or via the wonderful products we sell.