Country Living for your Home and Gardens

Still dreaming of country living? Dream no more! We introduce you to the good life; no matter where you live. We bring your simple instructions, tips, recipes and ideas to transform your home and gardens.

Your Country Home

Your home and garden is a reflection of you and your personality. It tells people who you are by the way you decorate your home; from the color and type of front door, to the garden path that leads there.

For those of you who want the good life, to have that country home that most of us only dream about while flipping through magazines and decorating books - it can be yours, with just a little bit of work from you.


Your home, and the way you decorate it, will be a reflection of you; whether you go for a modern country style of home decor, a more traditional country style or just an eclectic approach.

We believe in creating a country home that is warm and welcoming. It's a home where people gather to share stories, tears and joys.

It's a place where one can smell the bread baking in the woodstove, see the suspended fruits of the harvest on the pantry shelves snug inside their canning jars until needed, and where you can sit around a pine table shelling peas straight out of your organic garden.

Whether you have an apartment, a suburban house or a country home there is nothing stopping you having a home you can be proud of.


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Your Cottage and Country Gardens

You can create a cottage garden style even if you live in the suburbs, as long as you know what flowers to plant, and what hard and soft landscaping you need to include to get that particular feel and style.

For those of you have a little more land and want to create your special country gardens then you have come to the right place. Here you will find gardening tips, advice on organic gardening for flowers, herbs and vegetable growing, as well as on the art of self-sufficiency. A Pretty Cottage with blue hydrangeas. The white cane furniture and white wooden fence, give it that cottage country style.
I love my home and garden. I am one of the lucky ones. I have 2 homes in 2 different countries, and both are very different.

I have a suburban home in Australia, backing onto an estuary where, when I lived there, I could fish for crab during the season, collect eggs from my 3 girls, enjoy organic gardening and collect the harvest from my small fruit trees but all in a fairly limited space.

But despite the limitations of space, I was still able to enjoy those country skills that I now practise on a bigger scale in my present country home in Italy on the 15 acres that we now enjoy working.


Country gardens and backyard gardens are places where we can try and be as self-sufficient as possible. For us it is a place where we grow fruit trees, herbs and vegetables as well as raise farm animals to feed ourselves and others.

However, it is done practising organic methods of gardening. Throughout these pages you will find tips on how to garden organically and how to look after your plants without harmful sprays.

A meadow and a farm gate completes this lovely country scene.

Country Living

Over the years we have learned some wonderful traditional country skills that we now pass on to you, if you are just starting out with your own country living. My love of arts and crafts and making something out of nothing, is still as strong as ever, and hopefully you will be able to find something here that you would like to make for your own country home and gardens.


So see come on in! Learn some homesteading skills for those who are homesteading today and try our easy country recipes in your own kitchens at home. This is a huge site to explore so take your time. We hope that you will enjoy the visit, and come back often!

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