Using poplar branches pruned off our driveway, we make a start on this year’s planting and restoration project.

Battery-powered tools have become essential in my garden. Here’s why, and why they’re worth considering in your garden too.

Harvest time just felt like work, until I stumbled upon this stupidly-simple trick that most people can do in under a minute.

Avoiding rust, fertilising, mulching, and harvesting scapes. Everything you need to get your garlic through the season, to a good harvest.

When to plant garlic in New Zealand depends on your garden’s climate. Here’s what nearly a decade of growing in the Far North has taught me.

We’ve noticed something sinister happening in one of our paddocks, and we’ve come up with a plan.

The post was abandoned, but the fencing project was not.

Everything you need to know about pruning stone and pip fruit trees: equipment, technique, tree shapes, and the golden rules.

An experiment in making a prodigious banana harvest last longer. More useful than expected, with some caveats

We weren’t expecting them, but surprise! We have a new herd of cows.

How the women who came before me have shaped my life at The Outpost today. The story of my matrilineal line.

After ignoring our māra kūmara for several months, we dug it up!

A look into what we do to prepare when the warning comes.

Albert “Snowie” Charles Schaeffer served in World War 1, and returned home, broken.

A frank look at what we do with our cows.

You don’t need to buy seeds to start growing food. Your weekly grocery shop is full of ways to get your garden pumping.

Turns out, peanuts don’t much love being ignored for the entire growing season.

Gardening isn’t all butterflies and rainbows. And even when it is, that isn’t always a good thing.

A bumper paprika crop means it’s time to make one of my best decisions so far and smoke it.

A few things that are happening, or will be happening.

It’s time to refresh and re-plant the spring bulbs.