Life is never static. Things change all the time. Just when you think it's looking fine, change breezes in, and the work starts again. O...

After water, tea is the most popular non-alchoholic drink in the world. My favourite drink is orange juice made from our backyard oranges,...

Once upon a time, suburban homes were showpieces where the smartest appliances, the largest screens and latest furnishings combined to pla...

After 13 years with our old fridge, two repairs to the thermostat and it starting to freeze the food in the fridge again, we bit the bullet ...

Over the past few months our worm farm has gone from bad to worse. The farm was in an old bath tub (see above) that we bought cheaply at the...

We've started planting!  Our vegetable season has begun and will continue right through from now till December, when it will be too hot ...

We're starting to think about this year's vegetable garden.  We usually do our main planting in March and although I thought we migh...

We say a lot about respect when we use the full measure of what we grow or buy. In the old days it was common practice to use every part of...

I'm often intrigued by the questions asked in emails, particularly when they're about the most simple things. It always reinforces f...

The beginning of summer always means the start of that most mundane of garden chores - mowing the lawn, or as we think of it, harvesting the...

It always surprises me just how much you can generate with something simple and a bit of work and know how. Hanno called me outside the othe...

As you probably know, Hanno arrived home from Germany with a cold, and, of course, I've got it now. I was going to report on the orga...