Probably the most-procrastinated and disliked tasks since we moved here is now done!

It turns out our dog, Roxy, and our free-range chickens are… not a good fit.

How our neglected and overgrown orchard gained redemption.

My top-5 most fool-proof vegetables that anyone can grow.

A decade ago, I started on my gardening journey in a collection of pots on an inner-city balcony. Here are the things I wish I knew then.

What do you do when a pig gets into your garden? Well, I have a bit of experience with that one…

A look into how I grow, and cook with a selection of some of the herbs growing at The Outpost.

With the nicer weather comes some essential lifestyle-block spring cleaning!

A spring update from the first year in our new garden.

The story of how we got our new angus-cross heifers: Taco, Nacho, Burrito, Goulash, Meatball, and Meatloaf.

I got an offer I couldn’t refuse: a giant ball of mouldy hay.

When life gives you a pig, you make bacon. A straightforward home-curing process from shot to bacon buttie.

Roxy is the newest addition to The Outpost. This is the story of how she came to live with us.

Nature gets very random when given the chance. Some more animal tales from The Outpost.

Our cows are ready to sell, and the market is good. But it’s still hard to say goodbye to the livestock we’ve looked after for 12 months.

We’ve been living at The Outpost for a year. I look back at what we’ve achieved, and give a few updates to previous blogs.

An update on how the garlic is growing, and how you can help your own crop do well this year.

After I decided I was ready for chickens, I had to find them a house. 3 years down the track, I evaluate how I did.

The story of Kat’s Nip and working out how to grow enough to supply demand.

How I turned a wodge of worms into 3 egg-laying machines and made my poultry economically sustainable.

Last week I went on a planting spree and we got 70 native trees into the soil.