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Weekly tales from The Outpost.
The best-laid plans
Find out what I’ve got planned for the 2024-25 growing season in my garden.
September in the garden
Heading into spring the garden jobs begin to build up. Find out what needs doing in September.
White Cabbage Butterfly
A deep dive into white butterfly – one of the most common and destructive pests in Kiwi gardens.
The second peanut harvest
Results from my second season growing peanuts.
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.
Our chicken coop
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 catnip swale
The story of Kat’s Nip and working out how to grow enough to supply demand.
Turning worms into chickens
How I turned a wodge of worms into 3 egg-laying machines and made my poultry economically sustainable.
Trees that count
Last week I went on a planting spree and we got 70 native trees into the soil.
The complicated tale of Bunbun
When a cat brings you a healthy baby rabbit, what do you do?
Learning to farm
I’ve had to learn how to look after my land and animals. Here’s what I’ve done so far.
A bush engagement
He asked me to marry him! The story of how Richard and I got engaged.
Strawberry fields forever
My imagination ran away without me and now I have incredible strawberry beds.
Raining in my head like a tragedy
An update on our rainfall, and how we plan to hold onto it for longer.
Interpreting my soil test
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.
Taking soil samples
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.
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.
My brilliant broccoli
This year my broccoli has really pumped. Here’s what I did, and what I learned along the way.