On grief
A poorly-timed accident sends me spinning.
Getting over garden overwhelm
Gaining a focus on turning around the garden for another season.
The pursuit of self-sufficiency
We’ve been here a while, so how close are we to being self-sufficient?
On patience
Time marches on and if you’re patient enough, it delights you.
Where are the avocados?
We have a lot of trees at The Outpost, but we don’t have any avocado. It’s not just because we’re saving to build a house.
Why I don’t keep bees
You’d think with so much native bush (and with more trees planted each year), we might put in a few bee hives at The Outpost. But we won’t be. Here’s why.
The lazy woman’s garden
Spending less time in the garden, and still harvesting from it by letting nature do the gardening for me.
The value of the bush
Musings on what value we place on our native forest remnants.
Why our wetland is important
One of our paddocks was once a very valuable ecosystem. I’ve got plans to return it to its former glory.
About Kat
Kat is a gardener and purrveyor of Kat's Nip. Most Sundays she writes about her life on her lifestyle block in Te Hiku (Far North), New Zealand.
