Eating water-glassed eggs
An attempt to avoid buying eggs as our chicken’s production drops off.
Chickens love coprosma
An accidental observation leads me down a rabbithole.
Planting peanuts
I’m feeling more on top of things in the garden, so I’m growing something new.
Harvesting and storing potatoes
We eat a lot of potatoes, so we grow a lot of potatoes. Here’s how we harvest and store them to feed us through winter.
Doin’ it with stile
I built something on the farm and now I don’t have to roll in cow poop!
Planting potatoes
Potatoes can be planted as soon as the last frosts pass. Find out what to do now to great crop next season!
Cloche hoops
All about our wonderful cloche hoops – and how you can have them too.
Square foot gardening
Low rainfall in summer each year means my garden always suffers. This year, I’m planning to share our water with one bed that really pumps… and grows everything.
Xeronema callistemon (Poor Knight’s Lily)
How I fell in love with and acquired a new native plant for my collection.
Cleaning troughs
With the nicer weather comes some essential lifestyle-block spring cleaning!
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.