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Two Feet - Small Steps to Self Sufficiency., Far North, Far North (2024)

24/03/2024

As it’s getting cooler, your plants that have been pumping out veges or flowers are probably looking and feeling a bit meh. So I like to make them some soup for a last push for more produces. I have a lot of vege plants, and I ain’t about to spend a bunch of money tryna feed them all so I make it for ✨freeeeeeeeeee✨.

Grab anything you got! Weeds? Chicken or cow p**p? Vege scraps? Worm wee? Seaw**d? Leaves? Grab it alllllll and throw it in a bucket or container. If you are using a watering can or for those that are boujee, you can put it in a pillowcase first (hit up your op shops for $1 pillowcases).

Fill whatever you’re using up with water to cover your soup ingredients and just let it soak. After about 3 days, the water will look all dirty and mucky and that’s exactly what ya want. Scoop up a cup of that and add it to your watercan and bada bing bada boom you’ve fed your plants some soup! The longer you leave the garden soup sitting, the stronger it’ll get.

15/03/2024

Dehydrating foods is an epic way to save food from spoiling, storing fresh food longer and it doesn’t deplete any of the OG nutrition in the food. I mean technically Vit C and Vit A get sucked out a little, but nothing significant. You can dehydrate and power any vege and hide it in food to make sure everyone is getting the goods.

I planted 18 onions from seedlings I cracked at the local garden shop in January last year (I think oops) and I had exactly 3 onions form. For about 3 months I was convinced they were just late bloomers but when they bolted and started looking more like leeks I thought I should probably pull them.

Chickens don’t eat onions, I didn’t need any garden soup (see other posts) and I wasn’t going to eat 15 leek-looking things in the week.

So I cut the entire onion-leek-thingy up separating the green tops and the white bottoms and dehydrated them for the winter months. The white parts I kept as flakes to add to soups, mince stews or to fancy up my noodles. And the green tops I whizzed up in my nutribullet to make a powder to sneak into those meals that kids 'don’t like onion' in.

You can use an oven to dehydrate slowly, or a dehydrator for those who have a few more garden fails than we would like to admit. Just google the vege and dehydrating time or if you’re not getting the answers you need, feel free to flick me a message and I’ll help you out 

If you want to know the ins and outs, this is link is a pretty good chunk of info.
https://learn.eartheasy.com/guides/a-beginners-guide-to-dehydrating-food/

10/12/2023

Potatoes! Dont believe people when they say it’s too late. It isn’t!

If you don’t have lots of space, you can grow potatoes in a bag on your deck or in a sunny place in your lounge or in some tires up the top of the driveway or wherever there is sun and you can get water to!

Most potatoes take between 80 - 100 days until they are ready but you don’t need to count, the potatoes will tell you 😂 the main reason people pick potatoes that take the longest is because the longest growing potatoes are always able to be stored the longest.

Whatever you grow them in, start with some dirt mixed with compost on the bottom on the bottom (about a hand deep), and chuck some seed potatoes in… or just potato’s with some sprouts / eyes on them. The eyes and the sprouts are like the little growths. I’ll show that in the photos. If you’ve only got one or two potaotes and want to grow a few more, feel free to slice them up to have an eye on per slice.

Potatoes aren’t fussy. Try and get some of the sprouts facing upwards and cover over with another layer of dirt. If you’re feeling fancy, throw in a handful of potato food (tui) before you put the potatoes in. It should make your potatoes bigger. In these bags, I didn’t add anything extra, I was just like good luck survival of the fittest 😂 Our main potato patch has this sprinkled in as that’s gotta feed us for a year so I gotta invest.

As the leaves start growing, keep adding dirt over the leaves. Potato flavour is improved by depth and darkness so cover the leaves up and they’ll pop through again. All the way until they get to the top. Then let them do their thing. The potatoes will bush out, flower, maybe even having little potatoes looking things on the flowers ( DO NOT EAT THIS OR PLANT THESE, THEY ARE POISONOUS )

And then, the flowers will brown off and die. Literally, they’ll just die 🥀

And THATS when you know they are ready to harvest! You should get around 10 potatoes per plant depending on how big your pot/bag/tyre/bucket is. Just tip it out, get ya harvest and be proud 🥔🥔🥔

If you’re trying to figure out what kind of potatoes you want, and wonder why some are good for mashing and some ain’t, it’s basically just the texture. The potatoes that are for frying and salads are because they don’t fall apart, and the ones that are good for mashing is because they absorb the other ingredients we put in like milk and butter 🤤🤤

If you’ve already come up with a creative or funny space to grow them, then please share for inspo for us who haven’t yet 😂😁

07/12/2023

If you planted some veges with me a few months ago, then you might accidentally have a bunch of veges ready to eat all at once. I didn’t have the patience for succession planting back then so now I have 6 ready to pick cabbages 😂 🥬

Well technically I have 6 of cabbage, 6 cauliflower and 6 silver beet ready to harvest but I haven’t figured out what to do with the other ones 😅😅😅

Another way to save money on veges when you’re growing your own is to preserve your excess harvests for when it’s out of season, and the price sky rockets. This means that you could potentially never have to buy that certain vege again.

This ones easy as.
Sauerkraut 🤙🏽

Slice it up as thin as possible, mix in 2 teaspoons of salt per cabbage, let it sit for like 30 minutes, and then smash the s**t out of it with the end of a wooden spoon (or something with a flat bottom of the handle lol) to get all of the juices out.
It takes a bit of smashing but it’ll start getting more liquidy eventually making lots of juice. Put a bit in your jar and pound down for more juice, and then some more again and then some more again. It doesn’t need to be a special jar, just one you can close finger tight. HACK: if you give up smooshing the cabbage for the cabbage juice, just top up your glass with a spoon of salt in half a cup of water 😁

Leave the jar in a dark cool place for a week or two, taking the lid off each day and taste it as it gets more and more sour/tangier. Once you’ve got it how you like, close the lid properly and chuck it in the fridge.

Then tell your stomach that its welcome for feeding it probiotics from your jar 😂😂😂

The salt you use to draw out the liquid also keeps the cabbage crunchy, and it prevents yeast (mold) from forming and If it looks fizzy, it’s working. It’s microbial activity doing its thaaang. Oh, and it’s supposed to lose the green colour to the pale/yellow colour. 😎

I’ll keep flicking out different ways of preserving different foods, but alway feel free to comment a vege that you need some help with preserving 🫙🫙🫙

06/12/2023

Speaking of tomato plants…. Once you’ve got one growing in your garden(or bucket, or shopping bag, or tyres, or washing basket) you can actually collect more plants off it!

With tomatoes, there are these things called laterals. All the garden groups will be talking about them, but no one really explains them 😂 it took me two years and my nana to teach me what they were. And now I plant them more than ones from seed.

Check out the photos and it’ll circle and explain what they are.

Once you know, come back and keep reading! Because once you know, you’ll understand why everyone removes them. They use energy that could be used for the actual tomatoes and start to make it harder for airflow to get through (no airflow=fungus and diseases).

BUT if you’re lazy like me, and don’t take them off every other day, they get BIG. Like BIG BIG. Which is like, oops but also, you can cut them and make more plants!

Cleanly cut the lateral, take off the bottom leaves and pop it into a glass or water, or if you’re game enough, straight into the soil (it has to be watered very often!). The hairs on the stalk will start to turn into roots and BOOM! Forced succession planting for free!!

What’s succession planting?
That’s another post 😎

04/12/2023

This page is for people trying to save money and have a hobby even in the smallest of apartments in the city, or limited space and time.

And it turns out, I’m now limited with time and money so I’ll show you what I’ve done to continue to grow my own food.

As you can see in the background, I have massive wooden gardens that, I’m not gunna lie, are not the most affordable way to go. But it’s going to be here forever so we have invested in strong large gardens.
But I’ve run out of time to built enough garden beds to get my summer veges in for my next project.

I travel a lot for work and will be more gone than home the next two months, and my lovely house sitter will have to take on all my garden duties so I want to make this as easy, cheaply (as it’s temporary), low maintance and effective as possible.

I am fortunate enough to have access to a trailer, but it can be easily done with buying bagged dirt - a local garden shop CBEC do their own bagging of garden mix so it’s not as expensive as you might think!

So I got a trailer of garden mix, a new garden bags (I ran out of buckets LOL) and I even brought seedlings!!

It does cost a little more, but these bags are easily movable, they have drainage holes in the bottom already, and are large enough for a solid vege plant. All they need is regular feeding and watering 🙂
No w**ds, no competing with other plants and no watering in 100 different places.

A little price break down:
Bag of compost $5.50
Bag of garden mix $7.00
Mix those together to get two bags worth of good mix.

PB60 bags - 0.85c each

Seedlings - $4.50 each or 3 x $13 (CBEC)

If you wanted to grow one tomato plant and HAVE to buy everything for that plant to grow, it could only cost you $4.50 + 0.85c + $12.50 (or get the good stuff for $16).

While $17.85 is a chunk of money up front, have a think about how many tomatoes you buy over summer 🙂

AND don’t forget to add to that maths, that if you follow this page, ill teach you how to preserve your excess tomatoes to have saved when the price SKYROCKETS X

25/11/2023

Busy evening disinfecting and reboxing our incubators to send out for their next hatching mission 🐣🐣

With a busy couple of months OF HIRED OUT INCUBATORS hatching ducks, chickens and Guinea fowl (omg cutest little babies), we have our beginner incubators ready for their next mission.

If you’ve been seeing all the fertile eggs for sale and getting a little FOMO, now you can hatch your own and join the chicken math crew 😂😂

Available to HIRE now are:

Incubator - 7 egg, Auto-turning, alarmed temperature monitoring and see through incubator so you can see your babies hatch. Beginner friendly, has settings you can change if you’d like. $100

Incubator - 10 egg, manual turning with a temperature gage and see through incubator so you can watch your babies hatch. VERY beginner friendly. All you have to do is plug her in and rotate the eggs twice a day 🐣 this is regularly used for kids in schools. $100

To add on to these incubators, we have a chick set that includes a heat pad, water and food holder, and if required, a foldable brood pen. $30

Of course I’ll be here for any questions or support if you need any while your eggs are cooking (not literally).

If you’re after the bigger incubators please message me and I’ll let you know when they are next available.

22/11/2023

Banana peels!! Brett eats s**tloads of banana’s a week and that leaves us with a bunch of banana peels. You can biff them into the compost, or bury them straight into the garden for extra nutrients.

Those two methods take quite a while for the micro bugs to break it down enough for it to become useful for the plants, and sometimes I just want my plants to have the nutrients fast.

The internet has a bunch of information and specific facts about banana skins but I’ll quickly dumb it down for us!

Bananas contain 3 major nutrients:

Potassium - this helps the plant all over, with building stronger fruits and helps build resistance to diseases AND PESTS.

Calcium - helps grow the roots

Magnesium - helps the plant do its thang with photosynthesis

And my FAVOURITE AND WHY I USE THIS ALL THE TIME

Phosphorus- this bad boy nutrient helps flowers and fruits. I swear everything I water with banana mush has 1000 x more flowers for fruits than ones I don’t water (and I’ve experimented to prove that!)

None of it is scientifically proven (not enough research done I like to say 😂) but generations of gardeners claiming otherwise is enough reason to just do it.

I like to test things out for myself cause I’m a little suss about some information, and I didn’t even count how many more fruit and flowers I got from my tomato plant that I gave banana mush. It was that obvious.
Annnnywayyyyy making banana’s useful for the garden!

Easy way:
Chop some banana’s up and chuck it in a jar/jug/bucket/cup of water. Let it just hang out for a week and then use it for your garden. If you have lots in one container, add some water to dilute it (unless it’s on blueberry plants, they love acidic things). If in doubt, however big your container is, throw it in the water can and fill the rest with water. Dig in the peels into your garden or throw them into the compost.

Easy-ish way:
Same step as above except mush it all up in a blender or NutriBullet before you let it sit.
Then after a week chuck the mush in a water bucket and put it all on your plants. The mushed up peels will break down faster and who cares if it’s on top of the garden because it deters aphids, and attracts pretty butterflies 🦋

Nek level dedicated:
Wash the peels, dry the peels and dehydrate/200* oven bake them until all the moisture is gone. Then crumble them into a blender/nurtibullet/food processor until it’s like a fine power and sprinkle over your garden or in the hole when planting and water in. It acts like a slow release fertiliser. It’s proven to be the best way to get the nutrients out and spread around.

Disclaimer: I didn’t cut my bananas cause I was lazy. We can be lazy gardeners and still be all good 😁

17/11/2023

I have learnt a lot the past few months… one lesson being when you travel, you should probably set up irrigation while you’re away 😂
That’s fine, I’ll start again!

So I’m planting a herb garden 🌿🪴

To be 100% honest I never cooked with fresh herbs ever. Except maybe when I hussled a few free Hello Fresh boxes.
But I do cook with those premixed packets like nacho night, devilled sausages, and every spaghetti bol or mince meal there is. So like we basically buy a bunch of dried herbs in a packet that I can literally google within 5 seconds so like ima make my own. Save money, and rubbish which also counts as saving money 😁😁

Anyway, herb garden. If you need any motivation on why to grow a herb garden, just look a the difference in price for flavoured items.

Canned tomatoes for example - 90c for chopped/whole/diced tomatoes. If you buy flavoured canned like Italian, Mexican, tomato and onion, basil and oregano, they are at least $2 each. And that’s just tomatoes, don’t get me started on sauces and pre marinated meat.

Here is my garden on my back deck. You can get second hand pots, couple of bags of cheap dirt (go for like Daltons vege mix, or 7 in 1) and seedlings. You can grow by seed for a more honest herb but I’m an ‘instant results’ kind of gal. So support local and buy some seedlings too!

To dry them, basically you can hang them somewhere dry, put them in a little bag and where is gets a lil’ breeze.

But if you’re a little bit unsure, start off with
rosemary, sage, thyme. They are super resilient and hardly grow mold. Grab them by then he stems and tie them with string in small bundles and hang them somewhere dry. It’ll only take a week for a small bunch.

Your instinct will be to put them outside in the sun, and you can totally do that! But the colour fades and a bit of the flavour does too, so if you can do it inside the better the flavour. 🌿

If you want more herbs like basil, oregano, tarragon, lemon balm and mints, they have more moisture and can mold a little easier, so best to put them in a paper bag with some holes in it, and hang them in the wind (or serious people like to say hang in a breeze 😂). Tie them in smaller bunches so they dry faster.

Then budda bing, budda boom, you have your own dried herbs that you can make your own taco mixes and your own mince on toast flavours!

01/10/2023

While I am away in China, I asked you to share your ideas and practices being self sufficient in ANYWAY!

YO THIS IS BASICALLY FREE!
All you need is some dedication on the ol’ hand saw and a tarp to cover your boot while you go along and pick up tree branches 😂

Karen has gone out, collected branches from trees, banged them into the ground to create a barrier for her garden and BOOM. GARDEN BED!

If you’re wanting to do this I’d suggest you do it in some type of order so you don’t have to go back and forth cause lord knows I would have!

1. Collect branches. I have an abundance of branches and sticks to pick out of as I live down a gravel road surrounded by farmland and tea tree bush. There are always broken trees and branches along there. You could also look on beaches as pohutakawa branches are always fallen over, or check out an area being subdivided or constructed on as they just throw the trees in the bins. They usually don’t mind, just ask them first to make sure it’s safe.

2. Plan your area for your garden bed and lay the sticks down around (as shown in the photo) so you know how many sticks you need. Also those bottom lined sticks are important to as it supports the soil later on.
Make sure to leave either an entrance or shorter sticks so you can actually get in 😂

3. Mow down the grass and put on cardboard to suppress the w**ds. If you’re not gunna mow the grass then just start banging in the sticks into the ground. You can add the cardboard afterwards. Cardboard can be picked up free from ANYWHERE. You just have to ask. The cardboard will kill off the grass and the w**ds and eventually disintegrate allowing your plants to start tapping into the ground nutrients too.

4. Once the sticks are in the ground you can go ahead and lay the cardboard down and start putting on your soil for your plants 🙂 For soil, you could use a compost layer, and then a vegetable gardening mix layer. OR just go straight in with premixed garden soil. It’s totally up to you.

Having an edge around the gardens make it easier to mow around so you don’t accidentally get any plants 😎

Also its free!
Also its pretty!
Also its free!

Now a gardeners might start commenting a few practical additions to these gardens. Mine would probably be leave a path in the middle of the larger garden beds so you can walk in there and w**d and harvest as you need. Also you’ll be able to kneel without having to reach over the branches to reach areas.
But if you check out the flower garden, that’s just the cutest little bee fast food shop 🐝💐
But if you’re skilled and don’t mind getting your feet dirty then don’t waste the space! Get right in there and plant it all up and just step in when you want to harvest 💕

There are no rules, just fun projects to do.

Keep on sending your ideas through and if I post up your photos and information, I’ll send you a little seed and garden starter pack xx

29/09/2023

Do you have any steps you take to becoming self sufficient in ANYTHING? Make your own butter? Grow potatoes in chicken feed bags? Recycle house hold rubbish to prevent you having to buy something? Big, small, easy, hard!

Send me a message or comment below what you have been doing in any way shape or form, taking little steps to stand on your own two feet!

I am currently in Shanghai, China and while I have plenty of photos and tips to share what I do, I thought this is actually a great time to hear from you guys.

Not only are you sharing the knowledge, if I re-post your ideas and photos on this page, I’ll send you a little starter kit for growing your own food! I’m talking 3 x 6 punnet pots, enough seeds to fill those pots and a seaw**d fertiliser mix to support your seedlings growth!

So go on, send through your ideas and photos and share the knowledge! Xx

27/09/2023

My seedlings have been cooking nicely under these recycled panels and wood that were saved from being thrown out but now the true leaves have appeared which means they are ready to be transplanted.

When you grow from seed, you’ll have the the first set of leaves that are just basically there to help out the seed, they are even already in the seed, and just absorb water to get started.

Then you have the TRUE leaves. They are the ones that are actually able to do all the photosynthesis process that allows the plant to make its own food and all that jazz.
The true leaves also look like the actual leaves of the plant that you’re growing.

I’ve transplanted mine into pots that I thought I’d save some effort and bribe the kids to fill for $1 per pot. Let’s just say I’m now $1 per seedling in debt to pay back my debt to the kids cause I DID NOT expect this many 😂😂

I’ve used a soil made up of 60% compost, 25% chicken p**p (whoop! Self sustainable in chicken p**p!) and 20% of broken down organic matter.
Regardless of what soil you have or percentages, just get some compost, sheep pellets, potting mix and mix it all up. Your seedlings will love it and eat it alllll up.

The seedlings still need to be sheltered, and this lot I’m growing in decent sized pots so when I sell them, they are established and hard to kill for those with not so green thumbs 😁

So far I’ve got all sorts of watermelon, rockmelon, cucumbers, tomatoes, pumpkins, zucchini, chillis and capsicums. Many more seeds cooking away! Xx

19/09/2023

I mentioned being self sufficient in anything makes you feel like a bad ass, no matter what it is. So let’s start small cheap and easy, like lettuce, zucchini, and tomatoes…. And berries cause dont limit yo self to veges 😎

Random container gardening! I moved flats a lot, and always thought I needed those flexi tubs 😅 so I’m using them as an example, but you can use buckets, lined old washing baskets, old large water jugs, rubbish bags, grow bags, OH MY GOD I FORGOT TO USE SHOPPING BAGS! We have SOOOOO many I should have used that!! Anyway, you can use them too and if you’re like me there are normally 100’s of them not in your car ready for shopping lol.

Whatever you’re using, make sure it has drainage holes. I never had a drill until I got a man but you can screw a screw and then push it out, use a lighter to heat up a cork screw on your bottle opener, sharp knife twisted around and around, however you do it, make sure you do it.

If you’re skint like me, I like to throw in sticks, maybe some rocks (don’t do this if you have to move it lots for sun) and random mulch from under trees before I top it off with soil. I put in a layer of soil on top of that mix, then I throw in food scraps. It’s free, it breaks down slowly and creates nutrients for the plants, uses your rubbish up, and makes your little garden pretty low maintenance.

Then there is the soil.
The warehouse has the cheapest compost bags and $12 gardening mixes. These are good if you’re happy to buy fertilisers like sheep pellets or use your worm castings and worm wee from the worm farms (wait for the plug 😏)

It’s pretty overwhelming to chose fertilisers and what’s best and we have the whole debate on expense = best. I’ll put it to you straight. You’re growing food for yourself, and not depending on just this food to nourish you, so you don’t need big expense fancy things. It’s just very basic things processed. Get some cow p**p, banana peels, eggs, and throw them all in your soil. It’s going to help. If you don’t have any of that, sheep pellets are a safe bet. Get the cheapest stuff x

If you’re serious about constant cheap gardening, make your own fertiliser so you don’t have to spend any more money on the soil you use. Make a w**d/p**p/seaw**d tea in a bucket, invest or make a worm farm, or a pet that you can reuse their p**p (OMFG NOT A CAT OR DOG LIKE A QUAIL OR CHICKEN). Then you have unlimited fertiliser, unlimited food for your food and it’s all created from already existing resources (food scraps, p**p, w**ds).

And plants? Easy, support ya local seedling growers (it’s cheaper, it’s real and it’s cheaper). In these buckets, you can plant basically anything.
Here’s some suggestion (per flexitub)

1x Tomato
6 x sweet peas
3 x peas and 2 x lettuce
1 x capsicum 2x lettuce
1x chilli
3 x herbs
1 x main vege like zucchini, cucumber, pumpkin, chillis, capsicums, tomatoes.
4x lettuce or spinach or mix of the both
2x silver beet

And the fun stuff!!
BERRIES! Any kind of berries!! They are just as easy. The difference with berries is like blueberries need more than one for a good decent harvest and coffee grounds or chicken p**p added into the soil to make it more acidic, and rasberries use a lot of fertiliser/food. Like animal p**p.
But ima be honest, I forgot about my rasberries in a container and they were fine as 😂

Strawberries!
As many strawberry plants as you can fit 😂 nah just kidding, you could do maybe 3 or 4. Just gotta put straw down on top of the soil so the strawberries don’t sit on the dirt and rot.

Rhubarb!!
Chuck a rhubarb in there and make your own rhubarb crumble 🤤

A FRUIT TREE!
Again, more feeding required but I still have one in a flexi tub from 3 years ago and we had lots and lots of limes this year! And hadn’t fed it at all 🤫🤫
But you should, it cost money to buy and set up so you want that money back in fruit x the warehouse has cheap fruit trees. Give it a go 🥰

Potato’s, tamarillos, so many things.
The handles will break eventually but I took these babies house to house and it was the most convenient and cheapest way for me to not have to pay $7 for a lettuce. And that’s what really matters right.

Flexibin - $9
Soil - $10
Fertiliser - (free! Use your food scraps!)
Seed/seedlings - $12 for 3 x 6 packs from the warehouse.

18/09/2023

Think I am due for a quick introduction due to all of the new support! Thank you all so much for being apart of little hobby community and feel free to comment with all or anything that you’re passionate or interested in 💕

I made this page for the people who may feel like being self sufficient could be overwhelming or just too big of a dream to have. I was in an overpriced Auckland apartment, watching people’s YouTube videos of their farm and their garden thinking that would never be me. It felt like it was to expensive to garden, to restrictive in rentals and just plain old impossible to create anything for myself.

But life’s too short not to love something. Hobbies shouldn’t be a privilege just because you can afford it, and just because we are so dependent on big companies to provide us things, doesn’t mean we have to spend our hard earned money just for their profit! Ok rant over 😅😅

Anywayyyyyy this page is so I can keep ya motivated, get ya saving money and making your own products and just straight up easy small things that’ll help you feel like you can stand on your own two feet! Some things are out the gate, like how quails are a great low maintenance pet that tick off a few areas in self sufficiency (eggs, fertiliser, food waste), how to harvest your own sea salt to just straight up cost affective ways to save us spending $7 on a quarter pumpkin 😂

I’ll share some stuff, how to make said stuff, and then offer to sell you said so it could be easier to have said stuff.

I promise it’s possible to love gardening when it seems impossible. And I promise that never having to buy a product cause you can make it yourself feels better than.. well you feel like a bad ass.

So feel free to let me know what you’ve always wanted to do, always wondered how other do something or your crazy ass dreams and I’m sure we can hustle together some rubbish and motivation to give it a go 😁🤙🏽😎👩🏽‍🌾

14/09/2023

It’s been a chicken filled week!

11/09/2023

Lavender! Dude it is so easy to grow and if you know where a bush is, it’s free! All you have to do is cut off a branch, and literally poke it in the ground. Cut off any flowers so the energy goes to the roots, and if you’re feeling motivated, you can take off the bottom leaves. I haven’t done either of these but it’s good practise 🤓
It survives pretty much everywhere and once it takes off you can use it for all sorts of reasons.
Benefits include:
- Bug repellent (fun story, because of such a wet summer season last year, every time it rains there is a lot of extra sitting water which is PERFECT conditions for bug breeding) planting lavender around the house can help deter them away!
- butterfly and bee attractant 🦋🐝 Great for your garden to bring in the bees, and great for your eyeballs to bring in the butterflies.
- you can make a bunch of stuff with it! Soaps, cleaning products, sachets for washing, room sprays. Another little step for self sufficiency 😏🤓
- it’s used for a bunch of health benefits. Make some lavender oil, drop a few drops on your pillow and it’ll help you sleep, also reduces anxiety, rub some oil on your temples or neck and it’ll help with miagraines, put some in oil in a bucket and put your feet in and it’ll help clear anything fungal, and my very personal favourite PROMOTES HAIR GROWTH! 💆🏽‍♀️

If you get your hands on some cuttings, cut the flowers off, pop it right into the ground. You can dig a small hole and put it some soil if you want but if you’ve got lose enough soil, you’ll be right.

Check out what I’ve done with some cuttings a mate gave me 🌿

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