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Today's mail bought more regulation and fees with it...this time to do with producing and selling eggs in NSW.

Luckily, we come under the limit so don't need to apply for a license (though we and any other people selling less than 20 dozen eggs a week DO NEED to notify the Food Authority of their business details within two months, online notification is free, paper notification is $55 and you can obtain the form by calling 1300 650 124 ), but from now on, anyone selling 20 dozen or more eggs a week has to pay for a license from

Wow, what a weekend! We headed down to Sydney to give the organic markets a try and ended up having a fantastic weekend catching up with lots of past farmstay guests...who would have thought you could fit 12 kids behind the counter of our little stall!?!

If you're reading this blog, you might be interested in the whole "Slow" movement which celebrates taking time to prepare good food, thoughts and friendships. Now in its fourth edition, there's a beautifully produced Australian magazine celebrating all things "Slow".  The words it uses to describe itself/its readers are: "creative, leisured, aware, relaxed, satisfied, informed, sincere..."

The brainchild of Jacqui Motts who has worked for publishing greats such as the New York Times, London's Sunday Telegraph and Rolling Stone New York, Slow Magazine is a fantastic read and if your local ne

At the Taree Envirofair yesterday where we had a stall selling our goat's milk soaps and lip balms, and selling Sun Baked cookies from our Sun Ovens, I had one of those magic moments.

Our kids always find something to amuse themselves with at the markets, whether it be a fellow stallholder's puppy, other kids to play football with, or as was the case yesterday...a drumming workshop and face painting too!  But our 9 year old daughter also sometimes uses part of our stall to sell her poetry.