Bananas
From half a dozen banana stems to productive patch we can barely keep up with. The story of our bananas, as we've learned it.
In 2019 we planted six banana stems and now we can barely keep up with them!
See how things have changed, and what we've learned, from the very beginning.
Banana farmer
We’ve planted some bananas on the farm!
Lockdown week three: Some updates
A whole lot of updates on things I’ve blogged about before.
Trees that count
Last week I went on a planting spree and we got 70 native trees into the soil.
A slew of updates
Generally, I blog about what’s new, and what’s going on right now. Today, I’m looking back and providing some updates on stuff from the past 2 years.
The banana plantation
An update on the patch of bananas we planted back in December 2019.
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’.
Storm surge
We weren’t entirely unscathed by Gabrielle, but we are left feeling very grateful.
An update post
A collection of updates about eggs, chickens, worms, weather, and garlic.
Banana farmin
We are officially eating our own home-grown bananas!!
Summer update
A few of the things I’ve been up to over my summer break.
What’s happening in the garden?
The gardens are starting to really pay off!
Banana loaf
A reliable, delicious way to deal with an arm of quickly-ripening bananas. Freezes well too.
5 tips for tidying up your bananas
Practical tips for maintaining a banana clump. Hard-learned lessons from someone who’s ruined a t-shirt.
Green banana flour
An experiment in making a prodigious banana harvest last longer. More useful than expected, with some caveats
Eat more fruit with this one weird trick
Harvest time just felt like work, until I stumbled upon this stupidly-simple trick that most people can do in under a minute.
Inga beans
We planted some trees years ago, and now we have some very strange fruit that tastes… like ice cream?