Inga beans
We planted some trees years ago, and now we have some very strange fruit that tastes… like ice cream?
Eat more fruit with this one weird trick
Harvest time just felt like work, until I stumbled upon this stupidly-simple trick that most people can do in under a minute.
Green banana flour
An experiment in making a prodigious banana harvest last longer. More useful than expected, with some caveats
5 tips for tidying up your bananas
Practical tips for maintaining a banana clump. Hard-learned lessons from someone who’s ruined a t-shirt.
Banana loaf
A reliable, delicious way to deal with an arm of quickly-ripening bananas. Freezes well too.
What’s happening in the garden?
The gardens are starting to really pay off!
Summer update
A few of the things I’ve been up to over my summer break.
Banana farmin
We are officially eating our own home-grown bananas!!
An update post
A collection of updates about eggs, chickens, worms, weather, and garlic.
Storm surge
We weren’t entirely unscathed by Gabrielle, but we are left feeling very grateful.
Planning a miniature food forest
I’ve been thinking and scheming – and I think I’ve come up with a plan for our first area of ‘food forest’.
The banana plantation
An update on the patch of bananas we planted back in December 2019.
A slew of updates
Generally, I blog about what’s new, and what’s going on right now. Today, I’m looking back and providing some updates on stuff from the past 2 years.
Trees that count
Last week I went on a planting spree and we got 70 native trees into the soil.
Lockdown week three: Some updates
A whole lot of updates on things I’ve blogged about before.
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.
