Welcome to Seasonal Simple Life
Join me in creating a self-sufficient, sustainable life through gardening, preserving, and simple living.
Every season offers fresh opportunities to grow your skills and reconnect with nature’s rhythms. 
Latest Posts
Garden Tasks in January: Setting Up Your Vegetable and Fruit Garden for Success
Although our gardens are sleeping right now, that doesn’t mean that we gardeners have nothing to...
The Best Orange Christmas Cookies Recipe (Soft, Citrusy & Festive!)
These orange Christmas cookies are soft, citrusy, and absolutely irresistible! Made with homemade candied orange peel and non-bitter orange marmalade, they’re elegant enough for any holiday cookie plate. The secret to their incredible flavor? A double dose of orange in both the dough and the filling!
13 Ways to Use Orange Peels at Home — From Food to Cleaning
Discover 13 creative zero-waste uses for organic orange peels! From candied treats and flavored oils to natural cleaners and body scrubs, learn how to transform orange peels into useful products that save money and reduce waste. Never throw away an orange peel again!
From the Garden
How To Make Nettle Manure
Nettle manure is the ultimate free fertilizer for your vegetable garden—and it’s ridiculously easy to make. This powerful plant tonic fertilizes hungry crops like tomatoes and pumpkins, strengthens weak seedlings, and naturally repels aphids and pests. Learn how to harvest and ferment stinging nettles into liquid gold using just water, a bucket, and two weeks of patience. Your garden will thank you!
The Complete Pumpkin Grower’s Guide: From Seed Selection to Harvest
Ready to grow your own pumpkins but not sure where to start? This complete beginner’s guide covers variety selection, seed starting, spacing requirements, fertilizing schedules, and pest prevention. Discover when to plant for Halloween harvest, how to support heavy fruits, and proper harvesting techniques for maximum storage life. From tiny decorative varieties to massive competition pumpkins, learn everything you need for a successful pumpkin patch!
Beginner’s Guide to Composting: How to Make Compost In 8 Easy Steps
Compost is the gardener’s “brown gold”—the magic solution for poor soil, drainage problems, and nutrient deficiencies. This beginner-friendly guide walks you through 8 easy steps to transform kitchen scraps and garden waste into rich, crumbly humus. Learn which composting system suits your space (even apartments!), the perfect carbon-to-nitrogen ratio, how to troubleshoot common problems, and when your compost is ready to use. Turn waste into wealth!
From the Pantry
Fermented asparagus with spruce tips
For quite a long time, I only ate asparagus with sauce hollandaise and young potatoes, topped with...
Spruce Tip Honey (Vegan Forest Honey Recipe + Foraging Guide)
📅 Last updated: May 2026 Every spring, the firs and spruces grow new, light green tips filled with...
Dandelion honey
A meadow full of blooming dandelions looks like the sun is shining from the ground upwards. It's...
From the Kitchen
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About Me
Imagine growing your own herbs on a windowsill, turning summer tomatoes into winter comfort, or creating your own gentle soaps with ingredients you can pronounce.
These aren’t impossible dreams—they’re your next small steps toward a more self-sufficient life.
Whether you’re planting your first seeds or you’ve been gardening for years, every season offers fresh opportunities to grow your skills, reduce your footprint, and reconnect with the natural rhythms that sustain us all.
Hi, I’m Angela, the “face” behind Seasonal Simple Life. Welcome to this blog!
Do you dream of creating a colourful and lively vegetable garden where you’ll cultivate all the vegetables you want?
Without chemistry but diversity and many tried and tested varieties that will fill your harvest basket with healthy and tasty fruit and vegetables?
In the evenings, the flavour of freshly cooked tomato sauce flows through the house; winter will come, eventually, and your pantry won’t fill on its own…
Do you want to live a seasonal simple life, decorate your house, craft things that make you happy and add beauty to your home?
Let’s do this together!
If you want to learn more about me, click here.