We Belong Outdoors

Calendula- the FIRST Blog Post

Below is the first post ever done for our business- unedited except for old broken links. It was published in August 2009 and included giving away Calendula seeds packets. That was the start of the...

Seed Exchange

I have these seeds on offer, that I've been saving all winter long, from seeds that I saved the year before and they are special. When I was first gifted a wonderful, giant version of a butternut s...

A Million Leaves

This spring I prioritised 3 things, then only got 1 done I went away on holiday in July, and since my return have slid, fallen, been driven from issue to issue in home, family and business. After t...

Pukeko Garden

For those of you in the South Island, I hear you have been hanging out in the single digits at night. For us here in Northland, we have just had days of wind and rain with high humidity, and then l...

Lettuce Tips

I want to share some lettuce growing revelations, because home-grown lettuce and greens is a worthy mission. From years of attempting to provide a continuous supply of greens for my family, I have...

6 Spiritual Lessons of Kikuyu

Hi Yellow Leaf, Our property has just had its 'turning' weekend, as in turning from summer to autumn. We cleaned gutters, made many things with feijoa, ate the last of the fresh corn, caught our fi...

Late Summer Garden

Hi Summer Garden, To the unpracticed eye the late summer garden can look a bit of a shambles. He might not understand the masses of food that the garden has already produced, the months of sheer vo...

Hot Pepper promises

We sent out 22 little boxes of chilli peppers just before the holidays, and I left our plants looking very tidy. What a great way to gracefully deal with excess. It was very satisfying to do. Below...

Baby Goat-ified (my new word just for you)

Baby Goat-ified Hello Slug-Eaten Cabbage Seedling, I see you are putting out all kinds of growth, exciting change, and exploring bigger ways of being in the world. I also see that the slugs have fi...

Watermelon Fantasies

At age 49, last week I shared the first watermelon that was grown by the property I tend. At ages 7 and 10, my kids, happily chomping away on our 5kg Sugar Baby, think this is funny. It's true, I'v...