Planting trees
Any day you get to plant a tree is a good day. And I’ve planted 96 trees so far this month.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sourcing native trees
In order to plant native trees, we need to source native trees. I went tree-hunting this week.
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.
