This week the abandoned shed gets a kitchen makeover! Anastasia and Happy the duck enjoy these summer days in the countryside and play in the lake. The whole art studio project is almost finished!
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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.

0:00 Building a kitchen!
1:21 Disassembling drawers and upcycling antique furniture
2:48 Reusing old floor boards
3:27 Happy the duck and Anastasia go to the lake
5:43 Building is hard!
8:46 Finishing building the cupboard doors
9:23 Afternoon routine with ducks, chickens and goats
10:06 Kitchen makeover almost complete!
14:01 The finished room (maybe my favourite transformation yet?!)

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