The Dairy Farmer's Daughter - for MAKE Workshops in the Waikato

04/01/2023

Thank you for following and supporting me over the past 10 years. I have really enjoyed the MAKE Workshops and the like-minded people I have met.

Due to increasing personal commitments (I am the primary carer for both my Mum and our son) I am closing the company and parking up the workshop equipment for now.... However, I will still continue to MAKE all our homemade cleaners, shampoo & conditioner bars and cosmetic products as that is our way of life and that is not changing!

Looking back I sure have covered some geographical distance with Workshops (some several times) in Hamilton, Orini, Huntly, Piopio, Te Awamutu, Cambridge, Te Aroha, Raglan, Otorohanga, Te Kuiti, Rotorua, Katikati, Tauranga, Papamoa, Putaruru, Tokoroa and other rural Waikato spots.
They have been hosted and sponsored (or partly sponsored by) by District Councils, Banks, Private Companies, Churches, Community Centres, Fonterra, Dairy Women's, Farmlands, Rural Women, School fundraisers, Pre-school fundraisers, Budgeting groups, Environmental Organisations, Health Awareness/Wellness Groups, Private Company Social Clubs and also Private groups of ladies just wanting to get together for a workshop in their home.
Then there were the years exhibiting at the Waikato Show for days.
Thank you to my friends I roped in to help me with all the MAKE Workshops and displays, daytime, evenings and weekends!
Thank you all, and especially to Lyn Webster, the Baking Soda Queen! If we all lived like Lyn, the supermarkets would be struggling, and we would have more money in our pockets😉
Take care everyone and all the best for 2023

27/10/2022

Kumera Up-date, these same plants have enjoyed spreading through the garden and will be dug up soon 😋

My babies will be planted out this coming weekend. Nothing beats freshly dug kumera 😀

02/10/2022

A month after the last photos. Heritage tomatoes and the kumeras are sprouting from both ends! 😀
Grow your own… it does take time and patience… but it is worth it!!! 😀

04/09/2022

….Only 8 days later, cauliflower, broccoli, lettuce and cabbage seeds have popped up quickly.
As expected heirloom tomato’s and sweet pea flowers will take longer but they are moving! 😃

27/08/2022

Everyone has to eat!!!
With mum living with us, our home is a lot warmer than it usually is, so I am making the most of growing our own Heritage tomato seeds inside and sprouting kumera plants for planting outside in October.
The potatoes are in pots outside.

17/05/2022

In my inbox this morning 😬 I haven’t had a supermarket voucher in many years and if I spend another $189 I will get a $15 e- voucher. So looking at their wee graph it looks like spending maybe $2k or more with them, I will get $15 bucks back. That won’t be happening for some time.
Marketing tricks!!!

15/05/2022

My journey started when I discovered this lovely down-to-earth lady.
By changing the way I thought about things… ‘Don’t Buy it, MAKE it’ … has been a change for the better in so many ways. Thanks Lyn

Lyn Webster was spending $300 a week on groceries. Then she slashed her budget to $1000 - for an entire year. Now she barely remembers her last supermarket trips.

13/05/2022

It has been such a long time since I last made some
MAKE Shampoo and Conditioner Bars.
Interesting contrast in colour as the honey coloured ones contain organic wheat germ and organic castor oil as it was all I could source.

28/02/2022

This is such a busy time of the year bottling produce from our garden and orchard. Mum has been helping at times too ❤️ Peaches, nectarines, plums, tomatoes (bottled, soup and paste) and Otago apricots. It does involve a lot of effort in this hot weather but in the middle of winter, when I pop off a lid.. nothing beats the fresh taste of summer fruit. 😀 … and home made tomato paste on homemade pizza bases it the best!!!
I Still have apples and pears to go, then I am done for the season 😀