Summer has finally arrived and with it a bounty of produce from the garden. Having already harvested plums from one tree in January my...

Happy New Year!! For all of my original subscribers - thanks for hanging around and for more recent subscribers who may have been...

There are certainly obvious signs of autumn. Cooling nights and the changing colours of leaves on the trees. But there is one sign I...

When I'm out in the mornings sometimes a scene will just catch my eye. This shot of the chicken coop with swale, hay shed and hills in...

I've been nurturing this apple tree for awhile as it has been really loaded with fruit, but this week was harvest time. The apples are...

Every year you anxiously wait for the tomatoes to arrive then when they hit, you can't wait for them to be finished again. Never happy...

Preserving time is quickly ramping up! The warm weather brings with it an abundance in the garden and also out and about in foraging and...

What makes one plant, with a beautiful flower, a noxious weed to be cut down and disposed of , but another, with an equally beautiful...

I had a message from a friend on the weekend - her mum had an unwelcome little swarm of bees hanging out at her place and would I like to...

It's amazing how loud bees are when they are en masse in a tree. Every time I walk past this beautiful flowering gum up in my pasture I...

The trees were all planted about two and a half years ago and these trees are just now becoming productive. Out of the stone fruit trees...

It's been awhile since I've posted a blog - two months in fact! Why did I stop? Well I just felt I had nothing extra to share than what...

I've been growing aloe vera for about 8 years or so and had no idea that it flowered but about a month ago I noticed two of my plants...

While my veggie patch has been very productive throughout winter you can really see it picking up of late. I even had to grab one of my...

Spring colour is certainly abundant now with bursts of purple, orange and yellow all throughout the garden. I really do love this time of...

For most of last week I was either preparing for a soil biology workshop presentation or making a video about soil. Like I developed a...

When I started my kitchen garden I threw in a packet of 'Wildflowers for Bees'. A mix of seeds for flowers that pollinators will enjoy....

We had a really big rain last Thursday afternoon and into the night. To be honest I was a little worried about the youngest lambs and how...

I've been sharing quite a lot of images of beautiful flowers, such as the gorgeous apple blossom in the centre photo, or cute baby...

My fruit trees are coming into their third spring season and I'm getting hopeful for a crop of fruit come summer and autumn. Last year I...