Harvest reflections
Autumn is almost done. It approached rather suddenly and with my brother and his wife departing at the start of it I did not feel prepared to do justice to the harvest [...]
herbs
Random Ramblings
Yeah, I know, I haven’t blogged for many months. We’ll explore that, as well as a few random observations in this [...]
Vegetable garden activities
I guess it’s that time of the year when you just have to be really busy in the vegetable section of garden. Actually, I don’t mind working in the Homeland vegetable [...]
Finally using the chook tractor
Way back when, when we investigated the options for getting chooks, we built the chook tractor, because we initially thought we would get a small number of adult hens, keep [...]
Don’t pull it out!
Following on from our previous post about our bees swarming, this post is primarily about bee food. But there’s another story woven through about “pretty” vs functional [...]
Framed chicken greens
One of our goals is to reduce the amount of chicken feed we buy, not only to save money, but also to give the chooks a healthier diet. Even an organic medication-free feed [...]
The last path
When I was a young teenager my friend introduced me to “The Last Waltz”, a recording of the last live performance of a Canadian band simply called “The Band” (which [...]
Under-planting a patch
We’ve been spending a lot of time, effort and also money getting everything right for how we want to operate the ducks and chickens. In fact, apart from switching on (and [...]
Spreading some comfrey
Patricia does use some comfrey paste or even a comfrey poultice to spread on when one of us sprain or bruise something. However, this post is about spreading some comfrey [...]
Edible forest – 18 months review
Going away in late spring / early summer never seems a good idea with so much going on. So naturally I was a bit apprehensive about disappearing for an effective 10 days to [...]