Three things my Dad taught me
This Father’s Day, I’m looking at the values I gained as my father’s daughter.
Befores and afters
A look at how far we’ve come since we purchased The Outpost.
Planting comfrey under fruit trees
Organic farmers know comfrey as a ‘dynamic accumulator’ – bringing deeply buried nutrients to the surface to feed my fruit trees.
Storm surge
We weren’t entirely unscathed by Gabrielle, but we are left feeling very grateful.
The pros and cons of owning chickens
If you love eggs, you might be thinking about owning some chickens… but should you?
Paying for my cow’s farts
How will the proposed agricultural emissions scheme affect my little farm and tiny cattle herd?
Some faults on the fenceline
The storms last weekend brought down a couple of nīkau palms near our fence line. How did we sort this one out?
Max chicken
We’ve had a bit of a poultry shuffle. The ducks have found a better home, and we’ve gone max chicken!
Spraying gorses
Gorse is an unfortunate reality of owning farmland in New Zealand. This week I got out and sprayed some.
Fencing folly
Simultaneously the most boring, difficult, and utterly necessary bit of owning a farm.
New, new cows
Meet the new herd of cows that arrived at The Outpost this week.
Five things I did this week
What on earth do I do all week? Well, here’s five things I did this week.
Baby chickens!
There’s some new arrivals in our flock!
Doin’ it with stile
I built something on the farm and now I don’t have to roll in cow poop!
The roosters
A couple of months ago, we welcomed some new chickens, and now the roosters are crowing.
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.
