Repurposing projects
A significant part of implementing the permaculture ethic “land care” is to repurpose as much as we can in order to reduce our impact on what goes into the landfall. It [...]
Animals
What came first, the chicken or the egg?
I thought the most difficult part of getting chooks is providing a home for them. Somewhere safe from predators, ventilated enough but not cold, ample non-soggy scratching [...]
Chicken timeshare facility
As I was studying Harvey Ussery’s book titled The Small Scale Poultry Flock, I was again made aware of the concept of a chicken tractor, or a chicken cruiser as he calls [...]
Making use of downtime
Of course just as I got over the jet lag and knuckled down to the grindstone to get some serious vegetable bed preparations done, the Victorian flu hit me squarely. [...]
Needs a bit more amour
After a wonderful whirlwind trip through Spain – where we enjoyed colourful Barcelona, the majestic Spanish Pyrenees and ended at Lekeitio, a quant fishing/beach village on [...]
L’art de agritourism
Only in Provence – or so it seems anyway – can they turn agritourism into an art form. Maybe we were just lucky to spend a few days in a very special place. Maybe it was [...]
Horsing around in Dartmoor
As I mentioned in my previous post, one of or side goals on this trip was to enjoy some aspects of agritourism and to study how it’s done. This post is more of a [...]
Gentle giants and a little birthday
Ever since we’ve visited Franny’s Farm in North Carolina in 2017, I‘ve been wondering how we could incorporate agritourism as a potential income stream into the jigsaw [...]
Introducing some silver
About this time last year, when we started articulating our goals for Dreamland, we already said that in 2018 we were going to introduce more beneficial animals into our [...]
Permaculture live from Tasmania – week 1
After a lot of introspection and some forward planning, we made the decision that it would be good for me to do a Permaculture Design Certificate course. Not only will it [...]
