When we first moved to Stanley, we were delighted with the fact we had a wood shed...

Frank has been delving into the weird and wonderful world of home-grown mushrooms...

We're formalising our vegie patch with paths to provide easier access, especially in the muddy winter months...

We bought a lemon tree and made a little home for it in the backyard...

We had a condundrum of what to do with all the sod lifted from where we wanted to put our paved path... ...the initial idea was to barrow it all the way down to the back paddock and fill in any rough patches... but...

After a very wet winter of slip-sliding down a steep slope to the vegie patch, we decided we needed a path!

We decided our water tank needed to be prettied up a bit, so we set about making a rustic trellis from a heap of acacia poles left over from our tree clearing earlier in the year...

Over the summer, we started making paper bricks to use up our abundance of newspapers and cardboard, and supplement our firewood supply.  Since the cooler weather, we've been able to give them a good road-testing.  And the verdict is...

Thanks to Frank's workmate John giving away a heap of old and unused 19mm pine tongue-and-groove floorboards, we've been able to make this new bookshelf... perfect for our craft room and just the right height to fit under this window!  Read on for instructions if you're keen to have a crack at making your own...

We had a whole week of sunshine last week, and put our solar food dryer through it's paces on a range of fruit and veg...

In last year's Earth Garden magazines (EG152 & 153), there was an article by Peter and Clare Averill on building a solar food dryer, which really sparked Frank's imagination.  He promptly ordered the book mentioned by the Averill's, and we finally finished our project two weeks ago (and tested it out on a banana below).... read on for more info and pics...

Frank recently started investigating home coffee-bean roasting, with great success!  Read all about it here...