We are sisters, Anastasia & Julia 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 tropical 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.

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Last Days of Summer: Cooking a Banana Flower and Building My Cabin

Building a Loft in the Abandoned Cabin

Restoring My Father’s Abandoned Cabin in the Rainforest

Nothing is Perfect: Our Life in the Rainforest

Summer in the Rainforest: Eamon and Bec Visit and We Start a New Cabin Build

Alone in Nature: Surviving a Cyclone

Preparing for a Tropical Cyclone: Alone and Off Grid

Happiness Isn’t Real: The Reality of Life Off Grid

Summer Harvests in a Magical Food Forest

Summer in the Australian Rainforest: Harvesting and Cooking from our Tropical Fruit Forest

Growing My Own Food, Sewing My Own Clothes and Living a Self-Sufficient Life

Start to Finish Rainforest Build: Abandoned Shed to Art Studio

Off Grid Rainforest Living: Harvesting, Building, Gardening and Tropical Storms

Slow Summer Days in the Countryside

Building a Kitchen in my Rainforest Art Studio
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