Smoking paprika
A bumper paprika crop means it’s time to make one of my best decisions so far and smoke it.
Canning lemonade syrup
When life gives you too many lemons, can the lemonade for a sunnier day. Preserves a citrus glut for months.
Seed saving
How to collect, clean, store, and swap seeds from your garden. The skill that makes gardening significantly cheaper, and more resilient.
All the alliums
The garlic harvest is in – and for sale!
The catnip swale
The story of Kat’s Nip and working out how to grow enough to supply demand.
Lurverly luffas
The story of my failure to grow very many luffas.
I love my worms
Our worms are probably the animal that pulls their weight best here at Orotere. They take my snotty tissues and coffee grounds, and turn them into black gold.
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.
