Toni Kenyon
Who LifeLoveandLettuce.com is for
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...
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Toni Kenyon
Feb 9, 20213 min read
5 Things I Want To Help You With
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...
Toni Kenyon
Feb 8, 20212 min read
February in a backyard food forest
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...
Toni Kenyon
Feb 1, 20213 min read
Preserving the Peach Harvest
There's nothing like channeling your inner Laura Ingalls-Wilder... If peach season doesn't do it, nothing will :-) I have a variety of...
Toni Kenyon
Jan 19, 20213 min read
How do I turn my lawn into garden?
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...
Toni Kenyon
Aug 1, 20202 min read
Backyard Chicken Capers
I’ve wanted chickens forever!
Not for their eggs or their meat, but for their assistance in the vegetable garden.
Toni Kenyon
May 25, 20204 min read
6 things I learned about me and my garden during the Covid lockdown
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...
Toni Kenyon
Sep 6, 20192 min read
Feeding the earth
Feeding the earth feels very much to me like feeding the soul. Without growing my soil, there is nothing for the beautiful flowers,...
Toni Kenyon
Aug 30, 20191 min read
Spring is in the air
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...
Toni Kenyon
Aug 23, 20192 min read
August in an Antipodes Vegetable Garden
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...
Toni Kenyon
Feb 15, 20193 min read
Managing my mid-summer vegetable and fruit garden
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...
Toni Kenyon
Feb 8, 20191 min read
How does your garden grow?
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...
Toni Kenyon
Nov 26, 20181 min read
The "Lettuce" part...my Kitchen Herb Garden
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...
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