Gardening, Raising Animals, Growing Food in the Tropics

A Homesteading Journey to Self Sufficiency

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Mistakes We Made In The First Two Years On The Farm

This post is going to be very real, and it may draw some criticism, but this is our journey. We …
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Food Plants You Can Grow From Supermarket Scraps

There are many, many food plants that you can grow from supermarket scraps. Don’t believe anyone who says you can’t. …
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The Supermarket Boycott –

There are many reasons that people like you and I are avoiding giving our money to big businesses today. I’m …
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10 Simple Ways To Save Money Today

We homestead and are semi-self-sufficient. I am a stay-at-home wife and mum. We have to save money on household expenses …
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Keeping Guinea Fowl – The Problems

I love my guinea fowl, I think they are beautiful, fun to watch, and ,allegedly, they keep ticks down. But …
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The website “Tropical Food Garden” was born in the lockdown years when my garden became my entire world. I was documenting gardening adventures in a tropical climate, in Port Douglas, Australia, north of Cairns. We got the bug, not even 2 years later we bought a 5-acre farm or homestead, still in the tropics, but at greater elevation bringing much cooler winters and a lot of rain. It’s on the Tablelands in Far North Queensland. We had to re-learn gardening. And then came almost 100 animals! Find out more on our site, permaculture, self-sufficiency, good home-grown food and family life on the farm.

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