Emily Uebergang – The Urban Ecolife Sustainable Lifestyle Design Thu, 02 Jun 2016 07:06:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.2 My experience raising, slaughtering and eating chicken BUT – Is there really such thing as ethical meat?/is-there-really-such-thing-as-ethical-meat/ /is-there-really-such-thing-as-ethical-meat/#respond Thu, 02 Jun 2016 06:49:58 +0000 /?p=5935 If you had to personally slaughter all the animals you eat for their selective cuts, would you still eat meat?   This is a tough question to ask. I know. I’ve asked it of myself many times over. Having done so, I still don’t have a definitive answer. I eat meat. I like the taste of meat. I feel better when I include meat in my diet. And yes, I still identify as an environmentally conscious citizen of this planet. Will I … →

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]]> /is-there-really-such-thing-as-ethical-meat/feed/ 0 Beginner’s Basics for Raising Egg Laying Chickens/beginners-basics-for-raising-egg-laying-chickens/ /beginners-basics-for-raising-egg-laying-chickens/#respond Wed, 18 May 2016 23:19:35 +0000 /?p=5887 Chickens… aka little reincarnated dinosaurs. You’ll forgive any atrocious behaviours inherited from their reptilian, barbaric, cannibalising ancestors for their a cute feathery disguise and endearing loyalty to you (when you have feed in hand).   There are a few things worth noting BEFORE you embark on the wonderful journey of raising your own egg laying chickens. I specify egg laying chickens because raising meat chickens is a completely different ball game. And I mean COMPLETELY. I’ll write up more about them in due … →

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]]> /beginners-basics-for-raising-egg-laying-chickens/feed/ 0 How to Build Your Own Mobile Chicken Coop (even if it’s your first time!)/build-your-own-mobile-chicken-coop/ /build-your-own-mobile-chicken-coop/#respond Wed, 04 May 2016 23:51:43 +0000 /?p=5877 Have I ever built a mobile chicken coop before? Hell no. Have I ever built anything before？ (Does that Ikea bed frame I bought back in the year of ’09’ count?)   Despite my lack of building experience, I do still consider myself a practical person. I like the feeling of power when you wield a hammer and drill in your hands. It creates a feeling in me like the world is my Ikea catalogue and I could build sh!t. Yeah, that feeling.   But Ikea doesn’t sell mobile … →

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]]> /build-your-own-mobile-chicken-coop/feed/ 0 What’s Growing in the Garden at the Farmstead…/whats-growing-in-the-garden-farmstead/ /whats-growing-in-the-garden-farmstead/#respond Thu, 07 Apr 2016 20:55:04 +0000 /?p=5852 FINALLY! The update I’ve been busting to share with you since I arrived at the farmstead. It’s time to share with you what’s been growing and thriving here in our garden at Ginger & Brown Farmstead.  Having a full-fledged vegetable garden has been on my wish list for a very long time. We were very lucky to inherit a garden fully enclosed by netting already as the birds, rabbits, wallabies, you name it, live in abundance here. Let’s not forget the original mess we also … →

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]]> /whats-growing-in-the-garden-farmstead/feed/ 0 The Truth About Being A First Time Farmer/truth-about-being-a-first-time-farmer/ /truth-about-being-a-first-time-farmer/#respond Sun, 03 Apr 2016 19:09:56 +0000 /?p=5834 “I’ve got this.”   I can’t even count the number of times I’ve had to repeat this silent chant to myself as I sit in the loneliness of my thoughts. When a blanket of silence has fallen around me, it’s sometimes hard to remember I have a choice to either sit in the peace of the silence, or be disturbed by the relentless mind-chatter.   I’d be falling back into old habits by ignoring these conflicting emotions. Coming into this experience, of moving to … →

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]]> /truth-about-being-a-first-time-farmer/feed/ 0 You Don’t Need to Live Off-Grid To Live Sustainably/you-dont-need-to-live-off-grid-to-live-sustainably/ /you-dont-need-to-live-off-grid-to-live-sustainably/#respond Thu, 03 Mar 2016 19:16:30 +0000 /?p=4935 For a long time I held a belief in my heart that I couldn’t live sustainably unless I was living in a remote off-grid cabin in the woods, growing all my own food, eating by candlelight, wearing my own hand woven loin clothes and basically shitting in a bucket. No power. No internet. No coffee. No connection. I repeat. No connection.   There’s danger in romanticising off-grid living in this way. This is actually as far from the intention and reality of off-grid … →

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]]> /you-dont-need-to-live-off-grid-to-live-sustainably/feed/ 0 Our First Two Weeks of Farm Life (aka the Honeymoon Phase)/first-two-weeks-of-farm-life/ /first-two-weeks-of-farm-life/#comments Fri, 19 Feb 2016 21:43:42 +0000 /?p=5788 I awake to the gentle sound of a rooster crowing in the distance and the sun rising over the ridge. From my bed I can already see the sky embellishing a wondrous display of purple, pink and orange, blushing sheepishly as though apologetic for stirring me from my peaceful slumber. I peer out the window and envision a day of possibilities. On the rolling pastures the cows graze on fresh dewy blades of green. Happy as cows could possibly be. … →

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]]> /first-two-weeks-of-farm-life/feed/ 1 So I Am Going to Become A Farmer…/so-i-am-going-to-become-a-farmer/ /so-i-am-going-to-become-a-farmer/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2016 01:51:48 +0000 /?p=5772 It’s 2:14am. I’m awake at this ungodly hour because jetlag has taken me prisoner. A whole 15 hours ago I arrived back on home soil having spent the majority of the past 2 years travelling, volunteering, wwoofing, house-sitting, visiting friends around the world and being a typical backpacking millennial trying to unpack her life and all the drama that comes with making adult life decisions.   But it’s not just for any reason I’ve come home. You see my friend, I … →

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]]> /so-i-am-going-to-become-a-farmer/feed/ 3 What Is It Like To Live In The World’s Most Polluted City?/the-worlds-most-polluted-city/ /the-worlds-most-polluted-city/#respond Tue, 01 Dec 2015 05:31:29 +0000 /?p=5750 Delhi. Officially the world’s most polluted city.    A recent article from the Huffington Post reported, “On November 27th, one of the US Embassy’s pollution-monitoring stations in New Delhi recorded a chart-breaking reading of 999 on its custom-developed Air Quality Index. To put that in perspective, any reading above 150 is considered unhealthy, with the range 351-500 classified as ‘hazardous’.”   And here I am, sitting in the comfort of my friends’ apartment just down the road from where those pollution … →

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]]> /the-worlds-most-polluted-city/feed/ 0 Natural Skin Exfoliation That Doesn’t Involve Microbeads/natural-skin-exfoliation-that-doesnt-involve-microbeads/ /natural-skin-exfoliation-that-doesnt-involve-microbeads/#respond Sat, 07 Nov 2015 12:08:36 +0000 /?p=5741 Those abrasive facial exfoliating scrubs you buy from the beauty aisle are doing your skin, and the environment, more harm than good.  We all understand how wonderful a feeling it is to scrub those dead skin cells off your body but like with most things, you need to evaluate the health risks of the products you are using and the environmental consequences. Unfortunately, many of these products have not been manufactured with either taken into consideration.   Study after study is … →

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