Garden and Growing

Kid Friendly Food Gardening – Autumn Harvest.

April 22, 2013

We’ve eaten our way through all the delicious spring and summer veggies we planted and now that the weather has turned chilly it’s just about time to give up on [...]

Kid Friendly Gardening – Summer Garden.

February 18, 2013

Our food garden is at it’s peak production right now. With lots of long sunny days and lots of lovely bore water things are growing, fruiting and ripening and we [...]

Kid Friendly Food Gardening – Grow Your Own Mushrooms

December 3, 2012

One of the goals for our kid friendly good garden is to have a go at growing the fruit and veggies that we like to eat. Sometimes that is easy, [...]

Kid Friendly Food Gardening – What’s Growing In Your Garden?

November 26, 2012

We are staring down the end of spring here, and the garden is bursting into life! All our hard work of planting seeds and digging and mulching is beginning to [...]

Kid Friendly Food Gardening – Crash Test Mummy Shares her Broad Bean Story and Broad Bean Recipe

November 5, 2012

This a guest post from the lovely Laney from Crash Test Mummy. Broad beans (also know as Fava Beans) are not the sexiest vegetable in the garden, and if you [...]

Planting Seeds in the Garden – Kid Friendly Food Gardening.

October 22, 2012

Spring is in full force around here. There are now just as many warm days as there are cold ones and the nights are a little less freezing than usual. [...]

Starting Plants from Seed – Kid Friendly Food Gardening.

September 10, 2012

We’ve spent most of the wet winter months dreaming and planning our food garden, and finally spring is here! The return of the sunshine and the longer days means it’s [...]

Planning a Kid Friendly Food Garden

August 6, 2012

It’s freezing cold outside. It is frosty and icy almost every morning and there is more mud than grass in our paddocks. But, the days are getting longer and the [...]

A Busy Mum’s Guide to Growing Veggies – In Winter.

April 23, 2012

The zucchinis are done, and the cucumbers long gone. We picked the last of the pumpkins on the weekend, and collected the beans that we left to dry out on [...]

Honey! Honey!

March 28, 2012

If you follow my facebook page you will already know that we have collected our first honey from our hive yesterday! At the moment we are squeezing the honey from [...]