Garden and Growing

Just Your Average Day on the Pickle Farm

April 27, 2010

A quiet Sunday morning on a long weekend. The Baldy Boy had just left for an hours bike ride before I handed over the keys to the three external children. I was going to invoke my ‘free pass’, cooking snicker doodles before a child free afternoon of singstar and dinner with friends. The suddenly I [...]

The Story of Dash the Rooster.

March 17, 2010

*** This blog post is about killing and processing our own home grown chicken. There is no graphic images, and I don’t describe the process in detail, but if that is not you thing, that’s ok, I understand, click away now *** In the very early spring of last year Jasmine, our bantam hen, hatched [...]

Here Chook Chook Chook…

March 11, 2010

We have some new residents at the Pickle Farm. Two weekends back I took a deep breath and did a brave thing. I bought four young hens from the farmers market. It might not sound like a very brave thing but since we’ve been loosing chooks to the dreaded chicken plague (aka mereks disease), slowly, [...]

Autumn in the Garden.

March 9, 2010

I am a fair weather gardener. I don’t like the cold, and I certainly don’t like to be outside in the garden when it’s cold or wet. But spurred on by reading Animal Vegetable Miracle (finally) and by a little something Jackie French said in her Backyard Sustainability book, for the first time ever, I [...]

Garden review – Summer Harvest.

February 18, 2010

At this time of year we should be reaping the benefits of our veggie garden. We should be watching things ripen and eating from our garden every day. This year though, things are a little blah on the garden front. We’ve had set back after annoying little set back with the garden this season. Nothing [...]

One Chick Wonder.

January 19, 2010

That cute little bundle of fluff is ‘Dot’, so named by the girls to match up with his/her older sister, Dash. She hatched about a week ago and is being clucked over by her doting surrogate mother, Jasmine, our little Wyandotte Bantam. This is the second hatchling for Jasmine (Dash was her first). Neither of [...]

It’s a Duck Problem

January 14, 2010

We have a duck problem, or should that be a problem duck. Bubble (the brown one) was always the most affectionate of the pair. Even as a little fluff ball he was the one that would snuggle up to you, and when he grew up and moved outside he’d still come over to say hello [...]

Green and Growing Things.

December 7, 2009

It’s the time of the year when I’d usually be blogging about the garden… but this year has been a little strange on the garden front. Still, there is green stuff growing so here’s a quick run down… We had super hot weather early in November when we were still expecting to get frosts. Some [...]

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Printable Love or Lunch Box Notes.
February 3, 2012

I am back making school lunches and next week my big boy will need lunch for kinder (preschool) too, thankfully only once a week, but all of them want to know when I will start leaving notes in their lunch boxes! So I think it’s time for some new lunch box notes. I am not [...]

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Wordless Wednesday – Printable Christmas Cheer
December 14, 2011

We are in need of a little brightness around here, and some Christmas decorations that Noah can’t pull down and destroy… Click on any of the above images to download an A4 (letter sized) printable poster to add some Christmas cheer. Or shrink them down and print them onto cards and share the joy. Check [...]

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