Nothing is better than crunching on snow peas while you work in the winter garden. Growing your own food, or even some of it, is an importan...

I thought I knew what was going on in my backyard but I didn't. I didn't really discover the microcosm out there until I stopped rus...

I've just been outside talking to H while he waters the fruits trees and the pumpkins. I have high hopes for the pumpkins this year. We&...

One of the traditions I'm bringing back to my home is Sunday lunch with family and friends. When I was growing up, this was the big mea...

It's a beautiful, crisp, winter day here. Mid-winter, my elder son's 27th birthday. Unfortunately we won't see Shane today as he...

One of my current projects in the garden is to cultivate more fruit. I would love to be able to have days when I eat all raw food, preferabl...

Well, it's mid morning, I'm just about to put the kettle on for tea and I've done everything I wanted to do. I just took a photo...

I've been out in the garden enjoying the mid-afternoon sunshine and pouring a little rainwater on the vegetables. We have some dutch cre...

These are are Rhode Island Red chooks. How could you live without chooks in the backyard? Don't answer, I wasn't really asking. ; )...

Generally one loofah harvest will keep you going all year. I harvested most of the loofahs this morning. I have about 18 of them, bot...

We’ve had a vegetable garden for much of the past 25 years. Gardening is one of those things that I miss when I don’t do it for a few days. ...

It always pleases me a lot to cook local and home grown food. When I can combine that fresh food with something from my preserving cupboard ...

This photo gives a good overview of our back verandah. It's a bit untidy so look past that. ; ) You can see our aquaponics tank and grow...

It will be a fairly busy day today. I have to sow some seeds in the aquaponics garden as well as some brandywine tomatoes for another garden...

I thought I'd give those interested in our aquaponics system a bit more info. Aquaponics is an intergrated system of growing fish and or...

Our aquaponics system is made up of one fish tank and two grow beds. This is one of the grow beds. I haven't written about our aquaponic...