Green banana flour
An experiment in making a prodigious banana harvest last longer. More useful than expected, with some caveats
Smoking paprika
A bumper paprika crop means it’s time to make one of my best decisions so far and smoke it.
Growing peanuts in New Zealand
What I’ve learned about growing peanuts over the last three seasons.
Home-grown peanut butter
Three years of growing peanuts came down to this. Home-grown, home-made peanut butter. Was it worth it?
Growing paprika
Paprika is made from specific varieties of capsicum, and this summer, I grew and processed my own.
The hypothetical house cow
Dairy prices are rising again, so I’m beginning to wonder if I should bring production in-house…
The second peanut harvest
Results from my second season growing peanuts.
Testing the coffee beans
After a recent workshop to learn how to process my own coffee, I put my own coffee beans to the test.
Coffee fruit!
The coffee trees have started fruiting!
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.
