A Traditional Life: Growing our own Coffee, Harvesting, Cooking and Zero Waste Living

Preorder our book here! 💛 This week we harvest, cook, sew and paint! We’ve been processing coffee from the tree and cooking with custard apples. Anastasia’s Instagram: Julia’s Instagram: We are sisters, Julia and Anastasia Vanderbyl. A few years ago, we began a journey to live a life in perfect harmony with nature. A life of caring for animals, growing fruit, planting trees, gardening, cooking, creating, building and learning to live with the land. In this time, nature has taught us more than we could have ever imagined. Our environmental films document the landscape, the lessons we’ve learnt and our work as regenerative farmers here on Bundjalung Country. We live on the land of the Arakwal and Minjungbal People of the Bundjalung Nation. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the Country we live on and recognise their continuing connection to the land and waters. We thank them for protecting this rainforest and its ecosystems since time immemorial. Music by Fellow Hollow “Clothesline“, “Solarium“, “Crickets in Loungewear“ and “Smokies“ Chapters: 0:00 Processing coffee from the tree! Harvesting the berries 1:34 Separating the seeds 2:14 Fermenting 2:54 Drying 3:11 Dehusking 3:37 Roasting 3:57 Grinding 4:25 Baking stovetop pastries 5:46 Trying homemade coffee 6:36 Harvesting custard apples 7:19 Cooking from the trees 9:09 Starting a few projects 10:10 Embroidering on a antique sewing machine and painting a pot 13:48 A snake attacked! Very scary 16:52 Tiny sewing machine restoration