I skite that I grow nearly all the fruit, veggies, flowers, eggs, herbs we eat for less than two hours work a week, with almost no bought inputs, and that this stares down the meme about home grown tomatoes being $100 a kilo. But this morning in the shower I started wondering if I was gilding the lily, if it was really, literally true. So many tiny, almost incidental inputs…
We picked two ten-litre buckets of coffee berries this week from our suburban coffee bushes. This is the first serious pick from half a dozen…
I was trying to figure out how old the oldest of our chooks is, and I vaguely remembered this photo. Here she is as a…
Remember this post from last spring? Well, the pee wees eventually finished their renovation project and went on to raising their family. And that meant…
This is almost two kilos of ginger. At supermarket prices, that’s nearly $60 worth, and mine is organically grown, fresh and crisp and took really…
There was a post this morning on Facebook about a news article by a researcher from Sunshine Coast University with the headline “Poultry farmers urge…
This is my newest garden bed. And see beside it there? That’s the pile of broken concrete I had to dig out. Or half of…