The big fix
We all make mistakes. Well, I like to think so, because we sure do – in fact, we have made some quite grave ones too. Of course, we only realise it after the fact, when the [...]
Homeland
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 [...]
Spring has sprung
Spring has sprung, the weeds are flung, we spread the dung, the season feels young, and a new song is sung. Don’t you love how spring just brings out the best in nature and [...]
A is for Asparagus
So there I was tinkering away in the shed, still recovering from the flu, but happy to work on the “mobile working holiday home” for the chooks. In fact, I was working [...]
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. [...]
Back to the grindstone
So I ended up not getting the horse and organic vegetable farm in Provence… but we can dream, can’t we? After gallivanting through the European summer for two months, [...]
The veritable fruit of paradise
I found this post dated 3 Sep 2017 in my drafts – wonder why I never published it? I added a few recent comments and updates in italics. We know we shouldn’t attempt [...]
DIY Nitrogen
One of the elementary inputs we are definitely short of is nitrogen, in its organic form obviously. This post describes the start of our journey using Tagasaste as a natural [...]
