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
Homemade Chestnut Laundry Detergent: Simple, Sustainable and Free
Those gorgeous chestnuts falling in autumn aren’t just for decoration – they make amazing free laundry detergent! Learn how to forage and prepare horse chestnuts, extract their natural cleaning power, and use them for sustainable laundry. This beginner-friendly guide includes two simple methods, practical tips, and everything you need to know about washing with nature’s gift.
How to Make Chestnut Soap: Easy Homemade Recipe & Instructions
Learn how to make natural chestnut soap from foraged horse chestnuts! This sustainable soap recipe uses the natural saponins in chestnuts to create a gentle cleanser. Includes step-by-step instructions, safety guidelines, and an optional chestnut powder for exfoliation.
How to Preserve Quince: 5 Easy Methods for Beginners
Quince may seem intimidating at first—hard, tart, and inedible when raw—but this golden autumn fruit transforms into something magical when preserved. Whether you’re making fragrant quince paste, jewel-toned jelly, or simple quince compote, preserving this heirloom fruit is easier than you think. In this beginner-friendly guide, you’ll discover simple techniques to capture quince’s unique flavour and fill your pantry with homemade preserves that will last for months.
From the Garden
Natural Fertilisers From Animals
A healthy and fruitful vegetable garden is impossible without feeding your plants. After all,...
Plant Nutrients: What Your Plants Need
Plants are not unlike humans. To grow, thrive and stay healthy they need nutrition and...
Soil types – How to determine your garden’s soil
If you want to make your garden a success, it's essential to know its soil type. Plants have...
From the Pantry
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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.