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warm autumn
Here is how the big vegetable bed looks right now….because it has been such a warm autumn, everything has grown quickly and lushly, which you might think is a good thing, but it isn’t really. It means...
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this week
I had the best cafe breakfast EVER – avocado mashed with feta and mint on sourdough toast with a poached egg on top, at Tomato Cafe: I DIDN’T buy these things from the op-shop: Horse fire-guard. I love...
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‘chokes and cardoons
On our holiday we stayed at a cottage with a beautiful country garden. There were lots of artichokes and cardoons in full bloom. I planted artichokes in my garden at the end of winter and they are...
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feel the fear….and feel the fear
“Love what you have, and you’ll have more love.” -Regina Spektor Aah, THIS SONG …”the piano is not firewood yet….” so much yearning in this song. I’m can’t stop playing it. In it she is saying, ‘Who...
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harvest time
I was talking to a friend on the phone is early-January and she said: ‘I bet your vege garden is going for it right now’ and I said ‘Actually, no, we are only really getting salad greens and herbs –...
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him belly full, but him hungry…
…a hungry man, is an angry man! I’ve taken to listening to a local Reggae-all-the-time radio station instead of National Radio. The mix of hardcore left politics, quirky christian imagery and a...
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lots going on in the winter garden
With the warmish wet winter we’re having, the vegetable garden was getting over-run with weeds, but the other day I gave it all a good tidy-up and was pleased to see just how much is going on, despite...
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transition towns garden tour – Feilding
A couple of weeks ago, I went on a tour of four organic ‘self-sufficiency’ gardens in Feilding, which was run by Transition Feilding. ***Do you know about the Transition Towns movement? If not you can...
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reaping what you sow
Abundance of late: I do love my slightly-twee ‘picking’ basket, which I op-shopped last year. So much goodness coming out of the garden right now… But on the downside – there’s been a bit of a sneaky...
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How I do juicing…
(Before I get into this post where I write about my thoughts on juicing, I want to say that I’ve come to believe diet and health are completely individual and idiosyncratic and that while advice from...
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