The day that was Thursday
I don’t typically write “a day in the life” type posts, but last Thursday may be worth highlighting in this manner. The day started off quite special with a quick surf [...]
irrigation
Tanking up
Last summer was a costly one for us, especially at Dreamland. We had a newly planted edible forest garden, with new grass and clover paths, and it was blazingly hot and dry. [...]
Winter started with a bang
Recently we have had two really nice bouts of rain (25mm and 32mm) about two weeks apart, which set us up for a glorious autumn. These were followed by mostly 20C sunny days [...]
And the little fix
In my previous post I described some of the big fixes we had to do at Homeland. In this post we carry on with the same theme where I describe some somewhat smaller, but [...]
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 [...]
Strawberry terrace greenhouse exchange
No, the strawberry terrace and the greenhouse aren’t exchanging places… This project should actually have been called “exchange some of the strawberry terrace and [...]
So many seeds so little time
During my Organic Market Gardening course, our instructor often talked about “opening up a new field”. It sounded so exciting, even though we covered how much work it [...]
The Green Path
So with the first rains hopefully not too far away, the time has come to plant the pathways at Dreamland. Before we get ducks and chooks at Dreamland – planned for the [...]
Dreaming of water
Water is one of the most common and powerful dream symbols, and it’s no wonder – water is all around us in our daily lives and it is essential to life. Water is [...]