A new driveway
Some major work has been occurring in the subdivision that will make visiting us easier and more pleasant.
Banana farmin
We are officially eating our own home-grown bananas!!
Planting trees
Any day you get to plant a tree is a good day. And I’ve planted 96 trees so far this month.
Chickens love coprosma
An accidental observation leads me down a rabbithole.
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?
The banana plantation
An update on the patch of bananas we planted back in December 2019.
Fencing folly
Simultaneously the most boring, difficult, and utterly necessary bit of owning a farm.
Manual of the New Zealand Flora
How do you learn to see the trees for the forest? You look closer. And then you look closer again. And again.
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.
The value of the bush
Musings on what value we place on our native forest remnants.
The beauty of weeds
Looking at the beauty provided by some of the weeds on the property, and getting a bit philosophical about it.
Xeronema callistemon (Poor Knight’s Lily)
How I fell in love with and acquired a new native plant for my collection.
Trees that count
Last week I went on a planting spree and we got 70 native trees into the soil.
A bush engagement
He asked me to marry him! The story of how Richard and I got engaged.
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.
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.
