A peek into our journey to become more mindful, live with intent and share our already learned skills and those we have yet to learn.

Hi and welcome to Our Small Footprint, my name is Nyssa and if you are only visiting us for the first time, we are a family of eight who live off grid in Australia (continuing on my YouTube spiel here, for all my regulars!). A big part of this blog is to share my recipes from the food I share on YouTube, but I also hope to share other aspects of our lives as well.

Thermomix with Chicken Stock Paste Ingredients

Cook from Scratch

Join me in my (mostly) single ingredient kitchen where I try and use everything in the most efficient way.

Food Planning and costing

How we inventory, plan and budget seeing as we only shop six times a year!

coming soon

How we started

Our way is definitely not the ‘best’ way, but this is how our journey started towards our small ‘homestead’.

Green house with garden beds and children

Garden adventures

Successes and failures and everything in between, learn with and from me as we try and grow our own food.

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Our journey to the point we are at now is a winding one, a path that we didn’t see, but have nonetheless embraced and are grateful that life pivoted the way it did and we are where we are now, we wouldn’t change a thing!

Fresh Start..

Where we started, our journey so far and our adventures to come!

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Family Trees and More

I love having a creative outlet, and to be able to use that to also support our little plot of land and our family is amazing!
So feel free to browse and if anything tickles your fancy know that you are supporting a small business and our ‘little’ family whilst also getting some great homemade products from my hands to yours.

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Inventory Spreadsheets

I use these inventory sheets each shopping period to assess how much is on my shelf, the base quantities I need to keep to get through our shopping period and the amount I need to buy to make sure I have that base amount!