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
I’m getting lazy and spending less time in the garden. But we’re still harvesting fresh food regularly. How? I’m letting nature do the gardening for me.
Fixing the orchard
How our neglected and overgrown orchard gained redemption.
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.
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.
