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
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!
Non-Bitter Orange Marmalade (Just 3 Ingredients!)
Traditional marmalade too bitter for you? This easy orange marmalade recipe changes everything. With just fresh orange juice, zest, and sugar—no pith, no bitterness—you’ll have sweet, glossy marmalade in about 30 minutes. Perfect on toast, in yoghurt, or as homemade gifts!
From the Garden
The June Garden Hustle: 10 Tasks Your Plants Are Counting On
The promises of May are kept in June! Forgotten is the doom of night frosts; now, everything is...
How to get rid of aphids naturally with household remedies
One day your garden looks perfect, and the next, aphids have taken over. These tiny pests multiply fast and can devastate young plants—but you don’t need harsh chemicals to fight back. Learn how to get rid of aphids naturally using simple household remedies like soap spray, garlic tea, and nettle brew. Plus, discover how to attract beneficial insects that keep aphid populations under control all season long.
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!
From the Pantry
Pickled beetroots
Never judge a book by its cover - or in this case: a vegetable by its appearance. Beetroots are...
How to dry herbs
What would cooking be without herbs? They not only are beneficial for our health but also add...
Six great ways to preserve herbs
Herbs are often unremarkable to look at, but man, what would we do without their flavour? Can you...
From the Kitchen
Bear’s Garlic Brioche Braid
One of the first plants that we can harvest every spring is bear's garlic (or wild garlic). It...
Bear’s garlic knot
Bear’s garlic, or wild garlic, is one of the first spring herbs we can harvest. It grows in light...
Tarte flambée with asparagus and walnuts
Every year I yearn for the first asparagus 'cause it's the unmistakable sign that we are heading...
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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!
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