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All Good Things Come to an End

August 24, 2016 @ 11:37 By Gavin Webber 24 Comments

Yes, dear reader, the time has come.  Everything in life has a beginning and an ending, and I believe that it’s time to wrap up The Greening of Gavin blog and podcast.  All good things come to an end (to quote a very famous Star Trek series)!

All good things

It’s with a homebrew beer in hand that I say goodbye.

All Good Things…

With no major greening projects on the horizon or further lifestyle enhancements planned, I’ve essentially run out of things to say, which after 1,870 posts and 132 podcast episodes is quite understandable.

I’m officially passing the baton to a younger generation of bloggers and influencers who may have better luck convincing the masses further to live a more sustainable lifestyle.

I know that I’ve played my part in the rebirth of the simple living revolution judging from the amount of feedback and emails I receive every day, so I feel very proud of that accomplishment.  I, like you, can make a big difference in the world.

What have we achieved?

During the journey, we’ve retrofitted the house with many green features, renovated the gardens into an organic food farm, and transformed the way we think and live.  All that, as well as starting a green business teaching others some simple living skills.

When I reflect back to that crazy day when my whole world was turned upside-down, I would never in a million years have thought that the blog would have come this far and how it would eventually have impacted our lifestyle for the better.

And to you, the reader.  I thank you from the bottom of my heart for supporting and following my family’s journey and antics since February 2008 when I penned the very first post.  It’s been a wild ride, sometimes controversial, but always interesting and fun.

So where to from here?

Well, the blog posts and podcast episodes will remain online until either the internet is destroyed or peak oil begins to impact us all.  Just joking, it will still be here as a valuable resource for as long as there are bits and bytes.  Check out my archive for all the posts.

Also, I will still have a strong online presence as I will be maintaining the associated Facebook page and YouTube channel for The Greening of Gavin.  If anything exciting happens around here then that is where I will be posting this type of update.

Additionally, the YouTube channel, CheeseMan.tv, will continue to release a weekly cheese making video, as well as my cheese making blog and associated podcast at Little Green Cheese.

Little Green Cheese Podcast

Little Green Cheese Podcast

To cap it all off, our home business, Little Green Workshops, is still growing strongly and will more than compensate for any time I gain from ending the blog and the podcast.  We are still running cheese, soap, soy candle, and bath soak & scrub workshops each school term if anyone wants to learn these dying skills.  You can find all the details of these courses on our workshops calendar.

Little Green Workshops - end of year update

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Adieu

So dear reader, this is it.  Once again, thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the support, and I hope to see you on my other blogs and YouTube channels in the very near future.

Goodbye, my friends and keep on striving for a more sustainable world.

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Cutting and Cooking Curds – Cheese Podcast 045

October 5, 2015 @ 21:34 By Gavin Webber Leave a Comment

Hey there curd nerds.  I just finished publishing the latest episode of the Little Green Cheese Podcast, which is all about cutting and cooking curds and the importance of curd size.

Caerphilly Curds

Stirring Caerphilly Curds

Although it’s one of the basics, it needed to be covered as I have had way too many newbie curd nerds send through questions about sloppy curds and failed cheese.  It’s worth a listen if you are interested in making cheese at home.

Little Green Cheese Podcast

LGC 045 – Cutting and Cooking Curd

There are also three cheese events that I mention during the episode if you live in the Melbourne area.  I will be at two of them getting my curd on!

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Getting Curdy

September 8, 2015 @ 18:31 By Gavin Webber 2 Comments

The last couple of days has been all about getting curdy.  No, not nerdy.  Curdy, like in cheese curds.

On Sunday I spent a good part of the day recording episodes for my Little Green Cheese podcast.  It was an uplifting experience because it was one of those pleasurable things that I had been putting off for far too long.

Consequently, I published an episode yesterday, and am a few recordings ahead of myself so that I don’t get into that situation again.  I love producing these episodes and especially answering the listener questions, which I get about two a day via email!

If you want to have a listen, then check out the Little Green Cheese podcast.

Little Green Cheese Podcast

In addition to the podcast and cheese blog, I have been active over at Mother Earth News.  I posted my second article titled, How to Make Something Like Feta Cheese (with Video).  That wasn’t the original title, but I think this slight change has helped readers find it.  I have to stop being so arty with my titles 😉

It has a little story about why I made Feta as my very first cheese, and then a video tutorial and recipe for my version of Feta-style cheese.

My objective at Mother Earth News is to take folks on a cheese making journey from simple to more difficult cheeses, so that they can easily follow along.  Time will tell how it goes, because I have noticed that not many people comment on the articles in each section (almost none), so I am not sure how the articles have been received so far.

Blogger-Button-Med jpgOn the real cheese front, we have purchased an electric yoghurt maker, and stocked some in our store, as I want to try my hand at making a few different types of yoghurt.  My daughter Amy is lactose intolerant, so I got some non-dairy yoghurt culture and am going to make some coconut milk yoghurt and soy yoghurt to see if it tastes any good.  She buys an expensive brand of coconut milk yoghurt at the moment with probiotic, so it will be interesting if I can make it a lot cheaper.  I am going to make a few how-to videos as well so that others can replicate my success (fingers crossed).

So that’s what’s been going on in curd land.  I’m such a curd nerd.

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An Ordinary Australian Man Who Has A Green Epiphany Whilst Watching A Documentary, Gets a Hybrid Car, Plants A Large Organic Vegetable Garden, Goes Totally Solar, Lowers Consumption, Feeds Composts Bins and Worms, Harvests Rainwater, Raises Chickens, Makes Cheese and Soap, and Eats Locally. All In The Effort To Reduce Our Family's Carbon Footprint So We Can Start Making A Difference For Our Children & Future Generations To Come.

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