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Natural Handmade Tallow Soaps

Hi, I'm Liz, welcome to Eight Acres. I live on a small farm in Kumbia, Australia, with my husband, Pete, and our dogs Taz and Gus. This website started off as a blog for sharing all the things we make and grow on our small farm. We keep a small herd of beef cattle and a few dairy cows. We also have lots of chickens, bees and a vege garden.

Now as well as sharing what I'm learning, I can share what we make through our virtual farmgate (online shop), where I sell natural handmade tallow soap and raw chemical-free honey and beeswax.

If you want to find out more about what we do on the farm and where these products come from, you can read more in my blog, follow any of my social links or send me an email, I'd love to hear from you. Please join my mailing list, then you'll never miss an update from Eight Acres.

Eight Acres - the blog — real food

Sauerkraut and trusting your nose

Dec 15 2011 0 Comments Tags: fermented, Nourishing Traditions, real food, sauerkraut

After reading Nourishing Traditions I was keen to try some of the recipes, but its a little scary when you haven't eaten these foods before. Most of the recipes involve lactic fermentation. This means that you leave something out on the kitchen bench, with some added whey from cream cheese or kefir, and wait for it to ferment. In our modern society, that's not something most people are really...

Sweet Poison - book review

Dec 02 2011 0 Comments Tags: book, real food, sugar

When I first read Sweet Poison by David Gillespie it really changed the way I thought about sugar. Since then, Pete and I have changed our eating habits to reduce our sugar intake and how its now just become normal for us to avoid sugar, so I thought I'd share some tips.