The Organikal Story

Welcome to Organikal – we really do appreciate your visit!

What’s it all about?

There’s a lot of organic do’s and don’ts out there and a great deal of it is contradictory. Organikal is here to cut through the crap and help you make the decisions you need to create and maintain your own organic lifestyle;

• keep you and your family safe from harmful chemicals.
• avoid falling foul of the greenwash rip off.
• save time and money in your effort to live the organic life!

The site offers guidance for newbie organics and eco warriors by sharing our own experiences. We offer common sense and practical advice using our experience of organic living as web entrepreneurs.

Here are some pointers to help get you started:

For New Readers ; 7 Blog Posts To Get You Started

Organikal Home (it’s coming soon)
Organikal Kitchen (it’s coming soon)
Organikal Apothecary (it’s coming soon)
Organikal Family (it’s coming soon)
Organikal Living (it’s coming soon)

About Me : A Short Bio

Julie Gibbons is an organic lifestyle artist, sharing the practical information you need to make a difference, eat organically, live sustainably and be healthy. Committed to walking the talk, Julie shares product reviews, reveals what’s behind the labels and introduces new ideas based on her own experience of what works (and what doesn’t).

Julie quit the software marketing rat race five years ago to discover an organic lifestyle, build a location independent income, home school her son and spend her holidays house swapping.

Julie is a Member of The Soil Association , Garden Organic and The Real Bread Campaign.

Our Organikal Story

Organikal started back in 2006 as a way to capture our experiences of living an organic lifestyle.  Sometimes we’re better at it than others – and sometimes we’re downright confused!

Here’s just some of the goals we set out with in 2006;

• become supermarket free
• become chemical free
• grow our own fruit & veg
• make our own real bread every day
• use only ethical, renewable or sustainable utility supplies
• build/restore our main house to be off grid

More than 4 years on and sometimes we’re still confused, but we know how to make better decisions.

We visit supermarkets rarely, we buy or make organic groceries and we make our own bread when we need it. We’re still a whole lifetime away from supplying our own fruit and veg and generating our own power, but we’ve achieved a whole heap of other stuff in the meantime;

• we’re cubicle and employer-free
• we’re active house-swappers – no all-inclusive long-haul hols for us
• we’re unschooling successfully

And the eco house and self-sustaining food supply is still an active goal – we’ve just installed our first polytunnel!

Separating out each of the individual elements would take about a million blogs. Each element is an individual thread of the weave that forms the pattern of me.  Like my renewable cells, my story and the pattern grows and changes all the time. Sometimes Organikal is about bread, sometimes it’s about travel, but it’s always about being organic. Please take from it from it what you will.

If you’re new – why, hello – I’d love to find out who you are. Please consider leaving a comment, say hi and leave me a link to your site, so I can visit and learn how to do a million things a million times better Tell me if you’d like to hear more about anything I haven’t covered.

Elsewhere on the web

You can see just some of the articles we’ve featured in here :  STV The Hour | The Guardian | Location Independent Parents

If you’d like to get in touch privately, then do visit the Contact page, where you can send me your request without any faffing about.

Organikal isn’t just about me, though – oh, no! Here’s the rest of the team:

Ruaridh – aka WiiR

Previously home-educated, XBox 360-loving gamer boy, you can find out more about the Organikal Child at his Home Ed Gamer blog, and connect with him on Twitter.

Martin Gibbons

Chief vegetarian and founder of many successful online businesses including PeopleMaps, Psychometric Recruitment and CareerPsychometrics. Martin is the bastard child of martial arts supremo/comedy hero Jackie Chan and the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung. You can catch up with him at these locations: (he’s quite opinionated, but genius. You have been warned).

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