About

I’m Kate.

I live at the Pickle Farm with the Picklebums - the Baldy Boy, the Twinadoes (Zoe and Izzy) and Muski the Monster.

I am the Mamma of a family living on ten acres of weeds in ‘almost rural’ Victoria, Australia. We are attempting to grow a family with love and gentleness in the best way we know how, while playing at our own version of being a little bit self sufficient and environmentally aware. Among the weeds we are growing veggies, fruit, native plants, chooks and children, learning a lot along the way and generally enjoying life.

In a past life (ie before Twindoes and Muski the Monster arrived) I taught preschool and discovered a passion for understanding small humans (ie kids) and a great outlet for my creative streak…. play dough and finger paint are fun for adults too! Now that I am a full time Mum I still get to spend lots of time thinking with and dealing with small humans, my own small humans who constantly challenge me and amaze me, as you’ll notice if you read my blog. I also strive to find that creative outlet - via digital design and scrapbooking, photography, playing with my kids and rambling on here at the blog!

Some would say I am a wanna-be-hippy, but really I am too mainstream to be hippy… and too hippy to be mainstream. So I guess I’ll just have to be me!

If you ever feel the need you can contact me via my contact page… come on, you know you want to…. and it makes me feel loved to get email, even if you are flaming me!

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