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Weekly tales from The Outpost.
The lost fence post
The post was abandoned, but the fencing project was not.
Pruning fruit trees
Everything you need to know about pruning stone and pip fruit trees: equipment, technique, tree shapes, and the golden rules.
Green banana flour
An experiment in making a prodigious banana harvest last longer. More useful than expected, with some caveats
Surprise cows
We weren’t expecting them, but surprise! We have a new herd of cows.
Garlic harvest 2020
Now the garlic is out of the ground, I take a look at how I did this year.
The shed
Probably the most-procrastinated and disliked tasks since we moved here is now done!
The egg thief
It turns out our dog, Roxy, and our free-range chickens are… not a good fit.
Fixing the orchard
How our neglected and overgrown orchard gained redemption.
5 veges you can grow without screwing up
My top-5 most fool-proof vegetables that anyone can grow.
Things I wish I knew when I had a container garden
A decade ago, I started on my gardening journey in a collection of pots on an inner-city balcony. Here are the things I wish I knew then.
Piggy grumps
What do you do when a pig gets into your garden? Well, I have a bit of experience with that one…
My favourite herbs
A look into how I grow, and cook with a selection of some of the herbs growing at The Outpost.
Cleaning troughs
With the nicer weather comes some essential lifestyle-block spring cleaning!
How does the garden grow?
A spring update from the first year in our new garden.
Hello, new cows
The story of how we got our new angus-cross heifers: Taco, Nacho, Burrito, Goulash, Meatball, and Meatloaf.
A buttload of mulch
I got an offer I couldn’t refuse: a giant ball of mouldy hay.
Makin’ bacon
When life gives you a pig, you make bacon. A straightforward home-curing process from shot to bacon buttie.
The name on everybody’s lips is gonna be…
Roxy is the newest addition to The Outpost. This is the story of how she came to live with us.
Animal tales, part 2
Nature gets very random when given the chance. Some more animal tales from The Outpost.
Saying goodbye
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.
A trip around the sun on The Outpost
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.
The garlic bed
An update on how the garlic is growing, and how you can help your own crop do well this year.