Aerial view of the strawbale house in Steels Creek Wow, what a ride the past few months has been. We have finally returned to our home in Melbourne, after 5 months on WorkAway exchanges. We started our WorkAway journey at Murrnong Farm, followed by...
We recently completed another WorkAway, this time at Chestnut Farm, an 8 acre property just north of Ballarat. The weather in Ballarat is pretty rubbish in winter – drizzle most days and frosty mornings. But we got lucky with some sunny days...
Murrnong Farm house and olive grove We spend most of our free time trying to learn as much as we can about permaculture through reading books, watching videos, listening to podcasts and attending workshops. However there’s always going to be a...
Our landfill waste was down to a 20L bin every 2/3 weeks, but once we acquired Diesel, our cute (big) puppy, we suddenly had a whole wheelie bin full of poop every week. Big dogs equal big poops. One medium-sized dog produces about 180 kilograms of...
This idea is not ours – a friend of ours made some of these hand washing stations for the crew kitchen at a festival we’re involved with. But given all the extra hand washing precautions that come with this COVID-19 world we find...
A few weeks back, there was a garage fire opposite our house (thankfully no one was hurt). It was a rare occasion to have all the neighbours out in the street at the same time. As we looked around, we realised we really didn’t know anyone...
Welcome to The Barefoot Pear! Thanks for checking us out. We’re Patrick and Rhianna, and we’ve set up The Barefoot Pear to share photos, ideas, workshops, project updates, interesting articles, DIY tips, recipes and all sorts of good stuff all in...
