A week away
I left the farm for a whole 8 days! I had so much fun! Here are some highlights.
The restorative things
Weirdly, life isn’t all about gardening. Sometimes you’ve gotta find some balance.
Five easy-care edible flowers for your garden
Some edible flowers you can get easily established in your garden.
Spring updates
Things keep ticking along here at The Outpost, so how are all those projects going?
Banana farmin’
We are officially eating our own home-grown bananas!!
The mulch pile
A giant pile of mulch stands between us and our dream home.
Three things my Dad taught me
This Father’s Day, I’m looking at the values I gained as my father’s daughter.
Planting trees
Any day you get to plant a tree is a good day. And I’ve planted 96 trees so far this month.
Coconut Slice
One of our favourite recipes from my Gran’s cookbook.
The New Zealand Whole Earth Catalogue
Why and how I collected the complete set of The New Zealand Whole Earth Catalogues.
Befores and afters
A look at how far we’ve come since we purchased The Outpost.
An update post
A collection of updates about eggs, chickens, worms, weather, and garlic.
Planting comfrey under fruit trees
Organic farmers know comfrey as a ‘dynamic accumulator’ – bringing deeply buried nutrients to the surface to feed my fruit trees.
Cleaning up my rusty tools
It’s pruning season but my tools are rusty and I can’t afford new ones. So I tried cleaning them up with vinegar.
Gardening equipment you won’t regret
Some of my favourite pieces of equipment for taking your garden to the next level.
About Kat
Kat is a gardener, crowdfunding coach, and purrveyor of Kat's Nip. Most Sundays she writes about her life on her lifestyle block in Te Hiku (Far North), New Zealand.