Do you want to eat healthy, home grown food, but you just don't think it's as easy as everyone says it is? I got tired of looking around...

My blog exists to help people who live on a small piece of land grow plenty of healthy food right in their own back yard. 1. Empower you...

We've been harvesting peaches like mad people over the last week. Over 12 kg stewed and now in the freezer! We stewed 4kgs of plums as...

There's nothing like channeling your inner Laura Ingalls-Wilder... If peach season doesn't do it, nothing will :-) I have a variety of...

I’m a great believer in growing food, not lawns. It’s incredible the amount of resources that go into keeping a blanket of green growing...

I’ve wanted chickens forever! Not for their eggs or their meat, but for their assistance in the vegetable garden.

Some days it felt like I’d woken up in an episode of “The Handmaid’s Tale” Early on, when we learned that we should wear masks and gloves...

Feeding the earth feels very much to me like feeding the soul. Without growing my soil, there is nothing for the beautiful flowers,...

As I write this, there is only a couple of days of the New Zealand winter left, before spring is upon us. The produce in the photograph...

August is the final month of winter down here in New Zealand. It's also a time when we have a ridiculous amount of rain and it's cold and...

As I sit here writing this, I can feel the little beads of sweat dripping down various parts of my body. Ugh...you might think, but this...

It has been an absolute bumper crop this year for us in the fruit department. We’ve been fighting with the local bird population over our...

For as long as I can remember, I've loved the idea of having a kitchen garden. A garden where I can pop out from the kitchen door and...