Does your vegetable garden feel overwhelming?
Mine too! Here’s how I’ve learned to feel the overwhelm and harvest food anyway. Get unstuck and make your vegetable garden grow again.
Green banana flour
An experiment in making a prodigious banana harvest last longer. More useful than expected, with some caveats
Preparing for a cyclone
A look into what we do to prepare when the warning comes.
Smoking paprika
A bumper paprika crop means it’s time to make one of my best decisions so far and smoke it.
Cleaning the water tank with Safe H2O
When we noticed our tap water was acidic, we decided to get the tank cleaned. Here’s how it went.
Garlic harvest 2025
Results from my much-smaller 2025 garlic crop.
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?
Going back to growing garlic
And so it begins again.
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…
Hoarding and homesteading
Choosing the things that spark joy.
All the alliums
The garlic harvest is in – and for sale!
The New Zealand Whole Earth Catalogue
Why and how I collected the complete set of The New Zealand Whole Earth Catalogues.
The International Year of Millets
The UN has declared 2023 the International Year of Millets, so I tried growing some millet.
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.
