Growing My Own Food in the Countryside: Alone and Off Grid

A raw and calming film of harvesting from the garden and cooking outdoors. Something else really big and exciting happened this week – and we can’t wait to share! Anastasia’s Instagram: Julia’s Instagram: We are sisters, Julia and Anastasia Vanderbyl. A few years ago, we began a journey to live a life in perfect harmony with nature. A life of caring for animals, growing fruit, planting trees, gardening, cooking, creating, building and learning to live with the land. In this time, nature has taught us more than we could have ever imagined. Our environmental films document the landscape, the lessons we’ve learnt and our work as regenerative farmers here on Bundjalung Country. We live on the land of the Arakwal and Minjungbal People of the Bundjalung Nation. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the Country we live on and recognise their continuing connection to the land and waters. We thank them for protecting this rainforest and its ecosystems since time immemorial. Chapters: 0:00 Harvesting from the garden: starfruit, chillies, limes, curry leaves, turmeric and pumpkins 1:42 The sounds of lighting a campfire in the mountains 2:48 Cooking a pumpkin curry 5:03 Cooking spiced starfruit and pumpkin flatbread 6:19 Sharing our secret, change and new adventures! 6:56 Renovating the old duck house with zero-waste materials 8:29 Naughty sheep and shepherding in the mountains 9:37 Caring for rare rainforest trees 11:00 Mending fences and building new ones!