Category: Sustainable farming
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Adopted chooks
The blue skies have returned and the weather man says we are going back into a dry cycle. We are still very lucky though. Our dry spell is nothing like the droughts they are having down South. All weather is relative really. An Australian drought would devastate this area. And a mid west drought would…
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Under the cherry tree
When I have family working with me. I get to lie under the cherry tree. And watch all the things going on around me. And wonder why I did not take up Poetry. Not exactly Chekhov. But he wasn’t a poet either. The objective of Cai’s training is to locate people who have been buried…
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The Day would not Fit.
Too much to do and not enough hours to get it all done, so I threw my arms in the air and drove into town and begged the hairdresser to cut my hair off. That feels better. My hair is the fast growing variety so John is not too upset. I was competing with my…
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The Land of Milk and Honey
Good morning everyone. We spent almost all morning in the garden yesterday, weeding and gathering for our vegan feast. The young people were entranced by the Duke of Kupa, who spent a lot of time sashaying about looking gorgeous. His tail sways as he walks. Showing off his feathers and his wives. Look at our…
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The Kitchen’s Garden Garden!
The gardens this year have largely been a disappointment. Crops like the potatoes, cucumbers, zuchinni, butternuts, pumpkins, and beans have either refused to fruit or curled up and died due to that extreme heatwave we had. But the aubergine, beetroot and capsicum all in the drought resistant frog garden are doing very well. Now that…
The Kitchen's Garden 