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Grow your own veggie garden and enjoy nutritious fresh homegrown food
There is so much reward in growing veggies, cooking and eating your own food.

Your homegrown produce is more nutritious and taste a lot better then store bought veggies. It feels good to feed my family nutritious, fresh homegrown food daily.

Some vegetables are less time consuming than others to grow, you can choose what suits your lifestyle best.

It helps to have a lot of space however you can do a lot with a small space too.

In this section I share what I grow and how I plan my food garden so that it produces fresh veggies all year around. With the right planning and good ways to store, preserve and freeze food. We can eat really well and hardly buy any fresh food.

My recipes are mostly simple weekday meals that I cook for my family utilizing what’s available around me at the time. It’s fresh, seasonal, farmhouse style home cooking. I'm happy to share some of my favorite recipes here with you.

Where I live there is long, frosty and sometimes snowy winters. We still manage to grow food and live very close to entire food self-sufficient even in winter. I like to always have some homegrown veggie available to eat.

In the colder month it will be a smaller selection but there are some greens that can be grown even in winter.

I'm happy and proud to feed my family nutritious, free range, spray free food daily. It’s very simple and without expensive set up costs or equipment’s.

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  • Winter garden bed covered up with frost cloth and snow on top
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  • A close up picture of two pumkin halves
    Ways to be self sufficient, Autumn
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  • Young spring broccoli plants growing in a garden bed
    Self sufficient homesteading - spring
Me, a female holding homegrown oyster mushrooms in my hands

Hey, I'm Camilla

a qualified chef, hunter gatherer and keen food grower who loves to fish. I started my food blog as a platform to share my recipes and tips on how to become more food self sufficient.

I spent many years cooking food in fancy restaurants but my favorite food that I am the most proud of is the food that I cook at my homestead in rural New Zealand from homegrown or raised, hunted, gathered or caught ingredients.

My recipes are fresh, seasonal, farmhouse style home cooking.

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