We’re chicken people
Once again, it’s time to top up the chooks, which means baby chickens!
Worm farming
All you need to know about worm farming. From sourcing worms to harvesting vermicast. Works at any scale, including under your kitchen sink!
The New Zealand Whole Earth Catalogue
Why and how I collected the complete set of The New Zealand Whole Earth Catalogues.
Planting peanuts
I’m feeling more on top of things in the garden, so I’m growing something new.
Coffee fruit!
The coffee trees have started fruiting!
Fencing folly
Simultaneously the most boring, difficult, and utterly necessary bit of owning a farm.
Everything I know about planting garlic
Everything I’ve learned about getting a successful garlic harvest in the ground.
Some of the succulents
A short tour of some of my succulents and cacti.
Xeronema callistemon (Poor Knight’s Lily)
How I fell in love with and acquired a new native plant for my collection.
Fixing the orchard
How our neglected and overgrown orchard gained redemption.
Turning worms into chickens
How I turned a wodge of worms into 3 egg-laying machines and made my poultry economically sustainable.
How to learn how to grow stuff
So you want to learn to grow stuff? Here are my favourite gardening resources to follow and learn from.
New chick in town
Lady Gaga (the chicken) has gone broody, so we’re giving her the gift of motherhood this Christmas!
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.
