Preparing for a cyclone
A look into what we do to prepare when the warning comes.
Garlic harvest 2025
Results from my much-smaller 2025 garlic crop.
Going back to growing garlic
And so it begins again.
65 Hours Without Power
Cyclone Tam roared through the country last week, and the fallout took a while to settle.
All the alliums
The garlic harvest is in – and for sale!
Giving up on garlic
The first half of this year’s garlic is up, and the results are… not great.
An update post
A collection of updates about eggs, chickens, worms, weather, and garlic.
The pursuit of self-sufficiency
We’ve been here a while, so how close are we to being self-sufficient?
On patience
Time marches on and if you’re patient enough, it delights you.
Another month’s worth of rain
The rain fell quite spectacularly this week. We’re now in our fourth year of weather monitoring, so how wet has the last year been?
Growing past my biggest failure
Last year, my garlic crop failed big and hard. This year, I’m nervous and more subdued about planting again.
Rainfall
We’ve got two full years of weather data now. What does it say?
The value of the bush
Musings on what value we place on our native forest remnants.
A trip around the sun on The Outpost
We’ve been living at The Outpost for a year. I look back at what we’ve achieved, and give a few updates to previous blogs.
Why our wetland is important
One of our paddocks was once a very valuable ecosystem. I’ve got plans to return it to its former glory.
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.
