Rush and rescue
Between hosting a year-end function for 20+ people we had to manage the little chicks through a heat wave and on top of that our next batch of “animals” were scheduled to [...]
Animals
Meet the team
You can’t turn your back for one second! So while I was away getting trained as a trainer, this happened… So from the 24 eggs we went to fetch from the other side of [...]
The birds and the bees
The day dawned wet and drizzly. With October having been one of the driest in years, the rain was more than welcome – all 11mm of it! So with it being slushy and muddy [...]
Chain reaction
This year we wanted to further permaculturify our place by adding animals. For us (for this year anyway) it referred to chooks, ducks, worms and bees. So with spring rushing [...]
Flying the coop
If someone flies the coop, they leave the situation that they are in, often because they want to do something different. Well, we definitely wanted to [...]
C is for carrots
In autumn, a while before we departed on our two-month trip through Europe, we sowed a lot of carrot seeds. In fact, we sowed all the carrot seeds we had collected from the [...]
Don’t count your chickens before…
For those of you that have been wondering – the chook saga hasn’t died a quiet death. It just went on a short hiatus… But it is now back in its full slow but [...]
Starting the worm farm
For a long time now, I have wanted to start a “worm farm”, because with our focus on improving our soil health, it is one of those things we should just do, no questions [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]