I hope all my friends on the east coast of the US are safe and sound. I've not seen any TV reports yet but the pictures online show som...

It's not often you have a crowd of people turn up to look over your garden but that is what happened here last Sunday. Permaculture Noo...

Hanno had surgery on his eye, had a checkup yesterday and he's fine now. He just has to take it easy and not do any dirty or dusty work...

I wrote recently about having ten chooks free range around the backyard and the problems that was causing us. Mainly it was that they like ...

This post was written over the space of a few days ... Hanno went out this morning and I took the time to work and sit in the garden. It w...

Change is constant in our lives. We're always reacting to the good and the bad in our backyard and while the good results in smiles and...

I had forgotten. Forgotten how full on it is to look after a newly walking toddler. We had a visit from Shane, Sarndra and Alex last wee...

It's not just in the kitchen that we can all cook from scratch - we can do it outside too by making our own organic liquid fertilisers....