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.
*** 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 […]
To Jam or not to Jam.
There is not much else growing in our garden (thanks to the crows and the early heat) but we do have strawberries… loads of delicious, sweet, strawberries. The big question on everyone’s lips is…. do I attempt to make Jam? Or do we just eat them? It’s on my list…. No 17. Make jam and […]
Growing From Seed.
We grow most of our veggies and flowers from seed. I used to think that was too hard, but actually it’s pretty easy! All of our seeds come from either the Diggers Club or more recently from Eden Seeds (who have excellent customer service and turn around times). They both supply open pollinated, old fashioned […]
Winter Garden…
It’s July. The shortest day of the year has been and gone. We are now on the way up to more light and warmth and somewhere, at the end of the tunnel, is spring. I’m pretty sure we are yet to have our coldest day this winter, but the Eden Seeds catalogue turned up late […]
How to get Free Tomato Concentrate.
The rule for tomatoes were we live is that you wait and wait and wait and when the rest of the summer crops are all but over suddenly you get more tomatoes than you could ever dream off. We’ve eaten some in salads as they’ve ripened along with the cucumbers, but it’s now, right when […]
Potatoes and more…
Today we are turning the above potatoes into potato salad to share with friends who are coming for an early Australia Day dinner. We grew all those potatoes! They had a hard life those little potatoes, what with frosts getting them early on, then lack of water, then the weeds simply took over. So when […]
Things are Sprouting!
My kitchen window sill is sprouting! Well, ok, technically the things growing in little pots and toilet rolls on my window sill are sprouting, not the actual window sill, but that didn’t sound nearly as fun! We planted these about two weeks ago now and have been patiently watering and waiting to see how soon […]
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