L is for lettuce
OK, it was as easy as A-B-C up to now, but now we have to start jumping around in the alphabet. The seasons just don’t produce fruits and vegetables in alphabetical order! [...]
Harvesting
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 [...]
B is for beetroot
I would have to look it up in a very lengthy spreadsheet, but somewhere in autumn we sowed a lot of beetroot seeds in beds V and W at homeland. Well those guys are now [...]
A is for Artichoke also
A while ago I wrote a post about how we moved the artichokes from the vegetable beds to the citrus “orchard”, a) because we needed the space in the vegetable beds, and [...]
Organic market gardening – live from Sydney
I had a large bunch of delicate tea tree tube stock waiting to be planted, the kids were having a student free day where we could do fun stuff together and Patricia was [...]
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 [...]
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year! May your fruits and vegetables grow abundantly, may your soil be healthy, may you have good rains, may the pests be few and most of all, may you be blessed [...]
Going through much to get little
Tad Dorgan* coined this quote: “Life is like artichokes; you have got to go through so much to get so little”. It may be true that you have to work through a lot of [...]
Extending the olive branch
A few weekends ago, we learnt how to make olive oil the old-fashioned biblical way. No fancy machines, no stainless steel drums, no centrifugal presses. Just us, our great [...]