A spring update from the garden.

After receiving my soil test results, I’ve spent some time interpreting the results, and thinking about how I can amend the soil to be its best.

I decided to get a soil test done on my garden. This week, I’m taking soil samples and sending them away to the lab.

A simple garlic and herb bread recipe.

So you want to learn to grow stuff? Here are my favourite gardening resources to follow and learn from.

Even if you can’t buy seeds, you can still grow a lot with common kitchen and supermarket ingredients.

So you’ve planted a pandemic garden – and now the snails are attacking! What can you do without leaving your house?

In the middle of a pandemic, what can you grow to keep you and your family fed and healthy this winter?

When should you use seeds, and when can you get away with a few seedlings?

Need to get some seeds growing indoors in trays? Here’s some tips from my garden.

The story of how we got our new angus-cross heifers: Taco, Nacho, Burrito, Goulash, Meatball, and Meatloaf.

I got an offer I couldn’t refuse: a giant ball of mouldy hay.

When life gives you a pig, make bacon!

Roxy is the newest addition to The Outpost. This is the story of how she came to live with us.

Nature gets very random when given the chance. Some more animal tales from The Outpost.

Our cows are ready to sell, and the market is good. But it’s still hard to say goodbye to the livestock we’ve looked after for 12 months.

We’ve been living at The Outpost for a year. I look back at what we’ve achieved, and give a few updates to previous blogs.

An update on how the garlic is growing, and how you can help your own crop do well this year.

After I decided I was ready for chickens, I had to find them a house. 3 years down the track, I evaluate how I did.

The story of Kat’s Nip and working out how to grow enough to supply demand.