The New Zealand Whole Earth Catalogue
Why and how I collected the complete set of The New Zealand Whole Earth Catalogues.
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.
Chickens love coprosma
An accidental observation leads me down a rabbithole.
Why I don’t keep bees
You’d think with so much native bush (and with more trees planted each year), we might put in a few bee hives at The Outpost. But we won’t be. Here’s why.
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’.
What’s in a name?
A guide to, and explanation of, the names we have given to places around our property.
The lazy woman’s garden
Spending less time in the garden, and still harvesting from it by letting nature do the gardening for me.
Fixing the orchard
How our neglected and overgrown orchard gained redemption.
The catnip swale
The story of Kat’s Nip and working out how to grow enough to supply demand.
Learning to farm
I’ve had to learn how to look after my land and animals. Here’s what I’ve done so far.
Raining in my head like a tragedy
An update on our rainfall, and how we plan to hold onto it for longer.
What’s in the greenhouse?
A look at a few of the plants I’m growing in the greenhouse.
The future state of The Outpost
What does it look like in an imagined future where all our work on the property is beginning to pay off?
We’ve finally arrived
Some thoughts on the overwhelming tasks ahead of us on our new property.
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.
