Making joy
The world is a lot right now, so I took some time to create some joy in it.
The mulch pile
A giant pile of mulch stands between us and our dream home.
Planting trees
Any day you get to plant a tree is a good day. And I’ve planted 96 trees so far this month.
The shopping spree
I spent my 40th birthday buying and planting trees. 16 year old me would be horrified.
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’.
Serendipity
I know we all joke we’re two-degrees of separation from anyone else in New Zealand. But Richard and I have closer links to the land we live on than we could have imagined.
Five things I did this summer
A catch-up looking at the things I’ve been up to over the summer break.
The Little Free Mobile Garden Centre
This year I had a a quiet moment of inspiration that spun into something really quite special at Christmas.
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.
Sourcing native trees
In order to plant native trees, we need to source native trees. I went tree-hunting this week.
Trees that count
Last week I went on a planting spree and we got 70 native trees into the soil.
Bush baby
A little bit about our native bush and what grows there.
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.
