Mudhutters and Oregon Cottage self- catering accommodation

Mudhutters and Oregon Cottage self- catering accommodation Striving towards:
Self- sustainability
Alternate building methods
Growing food, herbs ....actually just growing...ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING!

Life on our Homestead

Organic food forest

Air BnB self catering accommodation cottage for two

Therapeutic foot massage by appoinment

Homemade jams, marmalades, chilli sauces, chutneys, homemade spice blends, etc Living Life in the Slow Lane close to Nature. Creating a peaceful haven for others to enjoy. Self catering accommodation unit for couples.

Winter sown “ birdseed “ sunflowers scattered around the garden in clumps bringing much joy and colour to the spring gar...
13/09/2026

Winter sown “ birdseed “ sunflowers scattered around the garden in clumps bringing much joy and colour to the spring garden.

Such easy flowers to grow :- just buy a packet from the bird feed section and plant now for a colourful December garden.

Great for attracting bees and birds to the garden too.

September is also Sunflower month, an awareness campaign to support stem cell donors by registering to be a donor, donate to the fund or to spread the word.






Save our bees
Homestead living
Spring garden
Stem cell donor awareness

🌈 The Action Spectrum - part 6 - Wisdom ( the colour Indigo ) Wisdom is not the accumulation of facts, knowledge and in...
06/09/2026

🌈 The Action Spectrum - part 6 - Wisdom ( the colour Indigo )

Wisdom is not the accumulation of facts, knowledge and information.
Wisdom is seeing reality as it is.

Here’s a quick summary of what has been discussed in previous Action Spectrum posts.
Matter- including us - is ‘ made’ from waves of energy.
Not from an indivisible, solid particle ( atom)
There is no ‘smallest particle’ in existence.
All life - at the quantum level - is deeply inter- connected.

We appear to be separate at first glance / on the surface level, but we are all fundamentally inseparable from our shared source.
We’re like islands that appear separate above the ocean’s surface, but we are all linked to the same underwater land mass.
We are all just like leaves on one huge tree.
We’re like countless waves on the surface of one vast ocean of life.
This profound recognition/ re-membrance is wisdom.
Wise living mirrors our understanding of the true nature of life and each other.
Knowledge can easily ( and is very often ) used for selfish and negative, harmful, purposes. This can never be the case with wisdom, however.
Wisdom is always loving, kind and altruistic.
Lack of wisdom (ignorance) is the root cause of human suffering and misery.
Unlike pain, which is physical, suffering is mental / emotional, and is entirely preventable. Because we ( falsely) believe ourselves to be separate from others, we often act negatively (attack/defence)
All words, thoughts and actions that we place into the connected quantum electrical field of life, will ( at some point ) be “returned to sender” so to speak.
All actions have mirror - like consequences for every actor ( The law of cause and effect / The Golden Rule)

The five methods we’ve discussed previously ( generosity, moral ethics, patience, diligence and meditation) are all practices that can both create and sustain wisdom.
All of the rainbow practices are heart opening. They soften the brittle, conditioned barriers of separation between ‘us’ and ’them,’ between ‘me’ and ‘others’
They open the doorway to peace.
And, in so doing, they slowly and irreversibly dissolve human suffering.


Another step closer to setting up our mini food forest with its No Dig beds on the cheap at the Gxarha Creche . To grow ...
26/08/2026

Another step closer to setting up our mini food forest with its No Dig beds on the cheap at the Gxarha Creche .

To grow nutritious, organic veggies, you have good soil. When there isn't any, (like at the Creche) you make no dig beds which create rich, healthy soil without back breaking digging. Plus you don't disturb the delicate balance of microbes, worms etc which are already in the soil.

All materials used in the making of these beds come from the 3 garden services here in Morgan Bay . Thank you 🙏

I have been stock piling their leaf litter and grass clippings for months :- the result - no bought compost required, a huge saving.

The local Top Shop have donated all their empty boxes to the project . Thank you ! 🙏

Cow manure next from the Tshijila’s Family farm . Enkosi kakhule 🙏

Top soil donations courtesy of the moles at the Top Shop and free ” meadow muffins “ from the free range cows which roam around our village.

Various folk here in Morgan Bay have contributed all their kitchen waste and empty seed trays and pots. Less to be taken to the landfill ! Yay !

Biggest thank to Bayolise.
What a joy to be working together , learning together, laughing together !

Another step closer to the little ones being able to have a wholesome, nutritious meal straight from their own organic garden😊

‘ Not all classrooms have 4 walls ‘







Let’s Grow Together
Masikhule kunye
Organic food garden
Poverty relief

“ Sometimes all one needs is the silence of the plants to recover from the noise “ Realizations always come to me in the...
14/08/2026

“ Sometimes all one needs is the silence of the plants to recover from the noise “

Realizations always come to me in the garden.
Earlier this evening, after a busy and very noisy day in the city for our once a month shopping trip, I realised how very grateful I am to have this beautiful space to ‘ recover ‘ in.

Gardening really is such amazing therapy and an ideal environment in which to find inner peace and practise mindfulness .
As Confucius said , “ Wherever you go, there you are “
Our previous life, teaching in Ct, was a busy one with many distractions.
The transition to living the way we do now was by no means easy.
It came with many sacrifices, difficulties and huge relationship challenges.
But as life is one of perfect balance, there have been many rewarding, fulfilling moments, huge personal growth and being able to live our dream.

In steps the garden:-
Through my own personal overwhelming experiences,I by chance discovered a solution:-
Stop whatever I am doing and retreat to the garden for a few minutes.
Such an effective, meditative and peaceful way to unplug, destress, quieten my mind and ‘tune in’ .
The garden teaches me daily that by totally immersing myself in the present moment, ( planting a seed, watching a flower bud and open, watering , pruning a bush or just quietly watching the butterflies and bees and savouring the fragrant aromas around me ) I become the observer, focussing on the task at hand and am able to find the gap amidst the spaghetti mess of thoughts occupying my mind .
A meditation session without even thinking about it .

After all meditation is merely a way of practicing mindfulness.
And . . . Mindfulness, according to the Mayo Clinic, is a type of meditation in which one focuses intensely aware of what you are sensing and feeling in the moment, without interpretation or judgement.

So . . .
Slow down
Breathe
Stop
Breathe
Focus only on what is directly in front of you.

And in the quiet, being Fully Present moment, a wave of peace, serenity and complete relaxation WILL wash over you.

Give it a try !
Added bonus :- you also get exquisite flowers and homegrown organic vegetables 😊

🌈 Our Action Spectrum continued - Part 5 - Meditation - the colour blue 🌈The first 4 practices can only be truly effect...
03/08/2026

🌈 Our Action Spectrum continued - Part 5 - Meditation - the colour blue 🌈

The first 4 practices can only be truly effective when we are working from an Internal Operating System ( IOS) that is free from the conditional virus of dualistic thinking.
Thought cleaves reality into a ‘me‘ vs ‘others’ and an ‘us’ vs ‘them’ framework.
It is divisive and is the foundation of negative behaviour and of human suffering.

Thought is the basis of the current mainstream IOS.

Meditation is the alternative IOS.

Meditation is often viewed with suspicion, fear and ignorance.

Let’s clear that up quickly . . .
Meditation is NOT satanic, nor is it witchcraft, New Age or anything negative at all.
Quite the contrary. . .
It is the intelligent, disciplined practice of systematically dissolving our human obsession with, and attachment to, thought.
Put very simply, one effective method of meditation is as follows :-
We create mental clarity, inner peace and emotional equanimity by withdrawing our attention from thinking and gently placing it on our breath .
This practice is ongoing & continuous.
It is a new way of living.

We do this practice because it is impossible to be focused on the breath and to simultaneously be involved in thinking.
Over time and with sustained practice, the gaps between thoughts will increase and thinking itself will decrease in intensity.
We will slowly start to discover a vast, still, powerful, infinite space that has always existed beyond the level of thoughts.
An endless reservoir filled with limitless possibilities and potential.

We are all interdependent aspects of one unified field of energy.
So - what the HELL are we fighting about ?

The rediscovery of Awareness as our True Nature through the practice of meditation and mindfulness is surely the greatest gift that we can give both to ourselves, and to others.

And. . . Best of all . . You can discover this for YOURSELF.
NOW
IN THIS LIFE

This is an effective way out of human suffering.

This is LOVE

And it is only Love that will finally dissolve all the problems if the world.

Next up :- Wisdom and the colour, indigo

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