A big compost pile generates serious heat. Enough to cook a steak. Yes, really.

I’m up to 5 lime trees. Am I obsessed? How did I get here?

Following a huge rain, a bunch of mushrooms and fungi have begun to bloom.

It’s time to plant leeks! There’s a bit of a trick to harvesting a good leek, so I thought I’d take a moment to show you how.

It turns out our dog, Roxy, just looooves to dig!

Finding myself with many piles of rotting organic matter, I build my first hot compost pile.

How I fell in love with and acquired a new native plant for my collection.

Now the garlic is out of the ground, I take a look at how I did this year.

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.