New Year Update
It's been a real up and down first month of summer here in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. We've had downpours of rain turning our gardens into...
The garden is in bloom.
You only have to blink at this time of year and the garden can get away from you. By which I mean that the weeds suddenly.....almost over...
Booktown - Featherston
Monday 27th August 2018 finds me in the South Wairarapa town of Featherston - a place that I have driven through many times, but never...
Garden update - winter is here.
It's the 1st of June, therefore the end of Autumn and the beginning of winter, and don't we know it! This last couple of weeks have been...
Our relationship with the earth/soil....and Corporate greed.
Oh where to start on this one? From when the first human had the idea of planting seed in the earth to produce food we have been trying...
Making the most of our produce
February already - the last month of summer and the garden is booming and blooming. We've had a lot of meals based around zucchini and...
Pickles, chutney and tea
As mentioned in an earlier post, we have been making pickles and relish/chutney from our glut of lemon cucumbers (many thanks to our...
We reap what we sow....sometimes....gardening update.
It's been a while since my last blog post. My apologies for that. We are now almost at the end of the month of April, in the latter part...
Why - "Living the Good Life"?
Back in the mid 1970's in the UK there used to be a TV series called The Good Life. It starred Felicity Kendal and Richard Briers as...
