Just the trees
With the bees sorted out, for now at least, all attention has moved on to the trees. I won’t put my services out there as an arborist – not by any near means – but [...]
Construction
Waterworks – P project part IV
The weekend was dedicated to waterworks. We’re using copper pipe because we don’t want plastic pipe inside the aviary where the birds can gnaw at it. And there’s a [...]
P Project Part II
And so the saga continues. I don’t really know why I called it the P project. It’s actually the A project – a big spacious walk-in aviary for small parrot type birds. A [...]
The P project
Well this isn’t strictly permaculture. But then, everything doesn’t necessarily have to be. The P stands for something else. But I guess repurposing a climbing frame may [...]
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 [...]
Out for a duck
As I mentioned before – Spring is a short-lived experience in our area. The ground goes from soft slippery clay to hard cracked shards within a week or two. So by now the [...]
Best preparations for tomorrow are done today
Over at Dreamland we’ve been doing a lot of preparation to get it ready for planting the bare-rooted trees in a few weeks’ time. While preparing the holes, we’ve also [...]
Digging in
A really crucial step on our Dreamland implementation schedule was to get the holes prepared in order to plant the larger fruit trees over the winter. We needed the holes dug [...]
Clearing the wood to see the trees
We’ve been talking about Dreamland as a “blank canvas” quite a bit, but in reality it was not so blank after all. That canvas required quite a lot of preparation, both [...]
Access to Dreamland
Before we could start creating Dreamland, we had to organise efficient access. Even though Gaë and Pauline (the wonderful previous owners), who are still renting, graciously [...]