Alfresco Family
Our family's green outdoor adventures near and far
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Hi there and welcome to our site. We’re really excited you’re here. We’re very much a work in progress but please take a look around.
You’ll find our latest blogs and articles on the Latest page.
On the Environment page you’ll find the ways in which we are trying to live greener from our 52 week eco-exchange challenge to guerrilla gardening. We truly believe that small changes make big differences.
The Outdoors page covers our family exploration outdoors. It will include our fun activities local to our home in the Ribble Valley in the North West of England to further afield.
The Vegan Recipe Corner is a new part of our little venture due to demand from our readers. Here you’ll find family friendly vegan recipes. There are some ideas of nutritious meals you can make whilst camping to crispy cake recipes you can makes with your little ones to some of our favourite dinners.
Head to the Introducing us page to find out a little more about us.
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Introducing us
Hi there… If you’re reading this then we’ve already had some success in our aim to engage with a community of families, travellers, outdoor enthusiasts, world lovers, life lovers and all round adventurers just like us. We are a family of three- Katey, Rick…
Departing to New Zealand
It’s been a little while since I have written anything on the page as you may know we are planning a move to New Zealand for a year (or two). With working full time, exams, completing training and all the visa stuff; any free…
Arthur’s Pass National Park
Hi! We have been waiting to write and post this blog since last Wednesday but a delay with our Wi-Fi installation and general business of moving house (again) have prevented us finding even an hour to write. We took our first road trip in…
New Zealand Newbies
Hi, it has been a very busy few weeks but we are excited to bring you this blog so you get some of the story so far and if you discover it because you are thinking of moving to New Zealand hopefully it may…
Santa Steam Train at the Ribble Steam Railway
We took a trip on the Ribble Steam Train with a very special guest…Ho! Ho! Ho!
Santa’s Grotto at Oswadtwistle Mills
Tis the season…
Breakfast Potatoes
Set yourself up for the day with Spuds
Simple Tasty Potato Stew
Use those left over ingredients and make something your gran would be proud of.
Anytime 3 Bean Salad
This is a simple 3 bean salad recipe which can be kept in the fridge for a few days. It can be constantly nibbled at or used as a salad as part of a full dinner. It’s quick, cheap, tasty and super healthy. Ingredients…
Eco-Exchange Week 14
Microbeads to plastic free products This week we look at microbeads, something which is in a lot of products we use every day, products which end up washed down the sink and into our water systems. I’ll start with a definition: “Microbeads are manufactured…
Eco-Exchange Week 13
Regular bulbs to LED bulbs When considering this week’s topic I thought, “I’m pretty sure I already have energy saving light bulbs.” I then had a look around the house to confirm. Yes some of the bulbs are LED but actually there’s a few…
Outdoors
Here you’ll find our stories about our outdoor adventures. We enjoy hiking, pottering and playing in the outdoors. You’ll find lots of pictures within our blogs of the places to go- our aim is to share the beauty of the world and hopefully inspire…
Eco-Exchange Week 14
Microbeads to plastic free products This week we look at microbeads, something which is in a lot of products we use every day, products which end up washed down the sink and into our water systems. I’ll start with a definition: “Microbeads are manufactured…
Eco-Exchange Week 13
Regular bulbs to LED bulbs When considering this week’s topic I thought, “I’m pretty sure I already have energy saving light bulbs.” I then had a look around the house to confirm. Yes some of the bulbs are LED but actually there’s a few…
Eco-Exchange Week 12
New household products to recycled products Whilst making a journey towards greener living we’ve found that we reflect on everything we buy. From picking up loose vegetable rather than plastic ones to changing the products we use which you can see across previous articles….
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