Harvesting the kūmara
After ignoring our māra kūmara for several months, we dug it up!
Smoking paprika
My paprika crop is maturing and it’s time to get creative with it!
Garlic harvest 2025
Results from my much-smaller 2025 garlic crop.
Home-grown peanut butter
After 3 years and many, many hours of work, I finally get to sit down to my own home-grown, home-made peanut butter.
Tidying up the catnip
A peek behind-the-scenes at how I grow wickedly-strong catnip.
Boiled peanuts
Our third peanut harvest is our biggest so far; so I had the chance to try boiled peanuts for the first time. I am a fan.
Citrus care guide
A guide to citrus care and common citrus problems in Aotearoa New Zealand.
February in the garden
Harvests are rolling in, and the garden is in full-swing. Here’s how to keep that progress going.
Gran Shirley’s Cauliflower and Pineapple Pickle
It’s taken me years to grow the cauliflower I needed to make this one…
Banana loaf
An easy, delicious version of this classic way to use a prodigious banana harvest.
Banana farmin
We are officially eating our own home-grown bananas!!
My first peanut harvest
My first peanut harvest is in!
Apple crumble
My favourite way to use our apple harvest.
Apple harvest
Three of our heritage apple trees produced small harvests this year.
Testing the coffee beans
After a recent workshop to learn how to process my own coffee, I put my own coffee beans to the test.
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.
