Homegrown with Tess & Josh

Homegrown with Tess & Josh I’m Tess & he’s Josh. Join us on our full house remodel and renovation while raising our 5 children.
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03/06/2026

Thankful everyday 🩷

My fellow homeschoolers, share a picture of something you have been doing over the past week…
03/06/2026

My fellow homeschoolers, share a picture of something you have been doing over the past week…

01/06/2026

When renovating, you would think that you prioritise which jobs are most urgent, and systematically move through them. Nah, not with all these kids we don’t 🫣

28/05/2026

Brown sugar:
Raw sugar (1kg) & 1-3 table spoons of molasses. Less for a light brown sugar, more for a dark brown sugar. Mix until well combined.

Vanilla bean paste:
60g vanilla powder, 1 cup of brown sugar and 2 cups of 80 proof vodka. Blend until smooth. Add 1.5 teaspoons of xanthan gum and blend again. Pour into clean, dry, air tight jars.

The longer it sits, the deeper the flavour will become but it can be used immediately.

Happy baking!

26/05/2026

Every little girl needs their own flower patch, and this is Petal’s. After 3 days of moving soil, digging up grass, planting, mulching and edging… she received a whopper of a splinter in return! It was so deeply imbedded into her leg that a trip to emergency was needed and minor surgery to remove it. But even that experience hasn’t dampened her excitement in seeing her flower patch flourish!

18/05/2026

Shout out to all of the husbands risking their lives as their wives help ✌🏻

Me: “This space right here will be perfect for a little cut flower garden. Just somehow need to dig up the grass and mov...
18/05/2026

Me: “This space right here will be perfect for a little cut flower garden. Just somehow need to dig up the grass and move 5 wheelbarrows of soil…”

Josh: “The somehow is me…”

15/05/2026

Prep work for finishing the front is underway. Reinstating the garden bed beneath the wall, core filling the blocks to support our mammoth 6 meter sliding gate and cleaning up the breeze blocks that are going to be the top course of the wall.

I’d love to learn canning , is it as complicated as it’s made out to be?
15/05/2026

I’d love to learn canning , is it as complicated as it’s made out to be?

13/05/2026

Homeschooling doesn’t have to be school at home. My children actually enjoy book work but it’s only a portion of what we do. The rest of our learning looks like this, and we wouldn’t have it any other way!

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