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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.

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Book review: Simple and Natural Soapmaking

Jan 31 2018 1 Comment

One of my favourite websites for soapmaking ideas is Jan Berry's The Nerdy Farm Wife. I also found her Natural Soap Making eBook really useful (see my review back here). And she recently published a couple of real books: 101 Easy Homemade Products for Your Skin, Health & Home: A Nerdy Farm Wife's All-Natural DIY Projects Using Commonly Found Herbs, Flowers & Other Plants (affiliate link) And Simple & Natural Soapmaking: Create 100% Pure and Beautiful Soaps with The Nerdy Farm Wife’s Easy Recipes and Techniques (affiliate link) Both are packed with useful recipes based on natural ingredients, especially herbs and botanicals....

Mobile chicken tractors vs fixed pen

Jan 22 2018 0 Comments Tags: chicken tractors, chickens

Comparing chickens in a fixed pen to keeping chickens in a chicken tractor.

Surviving the QLD Heat Wave(s)

Jan 15 2018 2 Comments Tags: climate, heatwave, summer

I’ve always said that I’d rather be cold than hot. I have had plenty of opportunity to test this theory during the recent heat wave in QLD (over Christmas and New Years, its been a little overshadowed now that southern states are experiencing their own heatwave, but to be honest, it hasn't really cooled down here either). Yep, definitely still don’t like being hot, although my tolerance is...

Getting prepared

Jan 08 2018 3 Comments Tags: prepping

This post is about how we plan to provide our own energy, food and water needs if SHTF, whether is for a few days (one year we had no power for three days following a summer storm) or indefinitely.

Planning a property using permaculture

Jan 03 2018 1 Comment Tags: permaculture

Every property is different and every person has different hopes and dreams for their property and different abilities to achieve them, too, but I think there are some general ideas from permaculture that could help you get started with a new property.

Perennial pasture update

Dec 20 2017 0 Comments Tags: farm, pasture

After we tried growing forage crops on our cultivation areas we decided it would be worth trying to establish a perennial pasture instead. We planted about 10 acres out of 20 acres as a test two years ago using Rhodes grass, Creeping Blue grass, Digiteria and Wynn Cassia. It took a few months for that pasture to start growing and in the meantime we were worried that we had wasted a lot of time and money, but gradually the grass came up and got thicker and now we have a pretty good coverage. The Rhodes and the Blue grass are creeping, so they start to fill in the gaps.

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Eight Acres - the blog

Book review: Simple and Natural Soapmaking

Mobile chicken tractors vs fixed pen

Surviving the QLD Heat Wave(s)

Getting prepared

Planning a property using permaculture

Perennial pasture update

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