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.
Latest blog posts
May Magic: Transform your Garden this Month with these 11 tasks
Finally, we can wave those night frosts goodbye and enjoy the sun and warmth that May brings. All the veggies we’ve sown or planted out already get a boost and suddenly the earth is green again. With all the happiness it brings, there are also some tasks for us...
What to Sow and Plant in May: Growing Season’s Prime Planting Window
The arrival of May brings warmer soil, longer days, and the perfect conditions for vegetable gardeners to truly kick their growing season into high gear. As spring firmly establishes itself across most regions, May represents that sweet spot in the gardening...
Beginner’s Guide to Composting: How to Make Compost In 8 Easy Steps
Ah compost! The gardener’s "brown gold" that is the magic bullet for all our garden problems: Wanna add nutrients to your soil? Mix it with compost. Got water retention issues? Add compost to your soil. Looking for the perfect seed-starting soil? Compost it is. In...
Recipes
Strudel Dough For Beginners
Apple strudel is one of my favourite sweet dishes and although I’ve made lots of them myself and have eaten even more in restaurants and cafés, my mum's apple strudel is still the best I’ve ever tasted. She always made two baking trays of strudel for our large family,...
Quick and easy beetroot curd recipe
Sometimes, it has to be quick! Whether you don't have the time or energy to cook or simply don't want to spend more than five minutes in the kitchen, this quick and easy beetroot curd recipe will make a wonderful spread on bread or a dip for boiled potatoes. If you...
Carrot pizza recipe
I harvested the first carrots and they smell and taste so good that usually I eat the first bunch of them raw. I love their sweet and earthy flavour, it's delicious! However, it would be a pity to just eat them all up like that and not use them in some more elaborate...
Preserving
Pear Jam
After a year with almost no fruits due to an arid spring and summer, this year provides us with abundant berries, apples, plums and pears! Every evening I peel and slice fruits to preserve them for winter. I've already made apple sauce, dry-canned apples and started...
Dry-canning apples
Usually, when we preserve fruits or vegetables by canning, we add some liquid (usually water) to fill up the jars. But did you know that you can also preserve apples by dry-canning them? These dry-canned apples are the basis for a quick apple strudel or the filling...
How to make apple vinegar from scraps
If you, like me, pickle a lot of vegetables, you need a good deal of apple vinegar. Instead of buying it, however, why not try your hand at making it by yourself - from scraps! It's so easy, that you'll wonder why you didn't do it earlier and never will buy a drop of...
Home and Body
Green Mint Soap: Beginner Recipe
This mint soap beginner recipe was the first soap recipe I made and it's still one of my favourites! It's suitable for beginners which means that it doesn't require many ingredients. This is a soap specially for sensitive skin due to the green clay. Consistent with...
Soapmaking equipment
To start with soapmaking, you only need some basic soapmaking equipment. Later, when you are infected with the soapmaking virus, you can always buy additional tools that'll make the process easier and allow you to make more elaborate designs. When looking for...
Soapmaking Safety Guidelines
Soapmaking is a wonderful and rewarding occupation! We can be creative and invent our own recipes, add fragrances and colours to our liking and try out different techniques. However, it bears a certain risk and therefore it's absolutely necessary to be familiar with...
About Me
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!
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