Broad beans (also know as Fava Beans) are not the sexiest vegetable in the garden, and if you don’t take the time to prepare them they can be pretty tough and blah to eat. But we like them, even more so because of the process of raising them from seed and they are really good […]
Planting Seeds in the Garden – Kid Friendly Food Gardening.
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. It’s time to start planting things in the garden! A few weeks back we planted seeds in newspaper pots and the ones that are going […]
Starting Plants from Seed – Kid Friendly Food Gardening.
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 time to start planting our food garden for this year. It’s still too cold here to begin planting spring/summer veggies outside, but we get a […]
Planning a Kid Friendly Food Garden
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 seed catalouges have arrived so now is the time to plan this years food garden. I have plans, big plans….plans that are possibly way too […]
A Busy Mum’s Guide to Growing Veggies – In Winter.
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 the vines. We still have tomatoes hanging on, trying their hardest to ripen in the lovely Autumn sunshine we’ve had lately, but this week’s forecast […]
Honey! Honey!
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 the combs by hand, and it’s all rather exciting! We are slowly filling a bucket with golden, home grown honey, and another container with the […]
Five Things to Cook with Zucchini.
It’s zucchini season again. The time of the year where we try and find a way to eat a zucchini every day so we can keep up with the plants and not to let any grow to the size of base ball bats! It gets easier to accomplish each year as I find more and […]
This Year’s Summer Garden
Despite planting this year’s veggies way later than we should have, I am really pleased with how the garden is growing at the moment. The only thing we are eating is lettuce, herbs and the ever present rhubarb, but things are budding and beginning to fruit and flower so I am hopeful that there might […]