One of my favourite things to do is to visit other people’s vegetable gardens and have a good nose around…I always learn so much and get inspired to go home and get into my own. (See photographs from an organic garden tour I did in 2013 here.) Here are some photographs from a beautiful, well-established … Continue reading a and s’s beautiful permaculture garden
Black Doris did really well on Friday. She made me a little bit of cash and garnered many compliments on her fine appearance. Fun was had. * I’m having one of those times of life where the dial goes from ‘happily busy’ into ‘OVERWHELM‘ *cue obnoxious siren noise, flashing lights, general chaos* … When the … Continue reading old roses
It’s been raining a good few days now – after nine weeks without rain, this wet stuff falling from the sky seems a miracle. How quickly the garden wakes up, too. From desperate and dusty, to enlivened, greening…drinking it all in… Just as well, because I was getting major ‘drought-rage’. What’s drought-rage? Drought-rage is walking … Continue reading the drought breaks and with it my rage and I farewell the tomatoes
A couple of weeks ago, I went on a tour of four organic ‘self-sufficiency’ gardens in Feilding, which was run by Transition Feilding. ***Do you know about the Transition Towns movement? If not you can read about it here.*** Three of the gardens were the urban gardens of people working towards self-sufficiency in vegetables (and … Continue reading transition towns garden tour – Feilding
…it’s a cute chicken photo, instead. This is Cockatrice – one of our hens. She is the leader of the pack, top of the pecking order and frankly, the brains of the bunch. She was also a quick developer – the first to grow her full comb and to start laying eggs. Cockatrice is intelligent, … Continue reading This is not a gratuitous cute kitten photograph…
Gardening helps me get out of my head and into my body. I love our chickens. Rhubarb cooked with a little bit of sugar and rose-geranium smells like turkish delight. Continue reading three declarations on a thursday
Here are some things which have happened lately…. I have been doing a bit of lounging beside creeks and rivers while the boys throw stones: I got to visit the country getaway of some friends, which I think is what heaven looks like in my mind (i.e. a ramshackle country cottage full of charming objets … Continue reading lately…
(Vegan friends – you may want to skip this entry…) In autumn we lost our beloved family pet, Rocket-Cat, to throat cancer. Here he is in his favourite sleeping spot – my knitting bag: Instead of replacing him with another cat, we have decided to get some chickens. Since going gluten-free because of the dietary … Continue reading replacing one cat with four chickens
