Vicky Kelly's kitchen splash-back is a bullet-ridden metal sign dug up from the garden... and the central light fitting in the lounge is an enormous branch from her willow tree.
Daily life is all about re-using, recycling and having as little environmental impact as possible in Vicky and her husband Ruairi's rural home.
Vicky, Ruairi and their two children live on 0.4ha at Manawaru; a tiny community near Te Aroha in Waikato.
There, they grow all the fruit and vegetables they need and raise pigs and goats for the table.
The children know exactly where their food comes from and even named one of the goats they took to Ag day at school 'Yummy'.
Yummy's skin was tanned and is now on the lounge floor.
"Nothing goes to waste," Vicky says.
"We eat a lot of offal in our house, even with the last pigs we made black pudding... It comes from my respect for the animals. I like to know where they have come from, I like to know they have been kept good and I like to know that every single piece of them has gone to use."
Ruairi works for the Enviroschools programme and Vicky is a former environmental educator who now works at home.
She says that a while ago she realised her own commitment to living sustainability was a bit rubbish' so set about putting that right.
Now, to keep herself on track she posts a photo on her blog every day.
"It all kind of started from 'what can I do that's slightly better? What change can I make that's going to make my impact on the world slightly better? so yeah, I started to hold myself to account."
