If you can't grow vegetables due to having no time, bad health, young children, or no space, the answer for you might be to buy local s...

The garden really is the queen of all seasons. After all our summer salads, she makes way for all the hearty and nourishing winter vegeta...

In the next few posts about food security I'd like to write about what we grow for our own fresh food needs, and how we grow food for s...

Hanno and I hope you have a wonderful weekend ahead. We are both fine and looking forward to some work and family time over the next cou...

We planted our garlic in March and true to form, it was ready for harvesting in late September. We bought our garlic from Green Harvest , a...

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...

Wiki defines food security as:  the availability of food and one's access to it.  Food security is being able to access enough food t...

What a week we've had here. So busy, but productive and exciting as well. Our vegetable garden is starting to wind down with the early ...

Thank you all for the support and love shown here and in so many emails yesterday. I've said it before but I feel I'm surrounded by...