I miss our garden when it's not growing. At the end of our main season in November, I really feel like a break because I'm over wat...

Yesterday I wrote about the inside work done in permaculture zones. Today we're focusing on the principles of permaculture and how they...

We are the very happy owners of six new chickens. Kate from Beautiful Chickens brought them to us yesterday afternoon. We had the new wing ...

It's been a long, dry summer here. The temperatures haven't been nearly as high as those down south, we've had only two very ho...

We have seven chickens left. The last of our old girls died late last year and now, even though we miss those old characters, we've sta...

All of us who grow food, keep chickens or bees, milk a house cow or a goat, or keep pigs have to know a thing or two about the seasons. Her...

I didn't tell you when it happened, but a couple of weeks back, our strange hen-rooster died. She was the black chook that over the cou...