We Belong Outdoors

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...

Seeeeeeds!

Seeds are wonderful balls of potential! They house the DNA to grow a mature living species, then produce 100’s of replicas of themselves to spread far and wide and multiply all over again. I'm enam...

Food When No-one is Watching

It's Wednesday following a whirlwind school holidays. Consider it done any relaxing and connecting that is meant to happen in that time. How about you? John took the kids to Auckland in the first w...

Nature's First Green is Gold- Enviroschools

If I were being honest, and I aim to be, it's been a crazy week. With no further details needed, except, on top of crazy week, Isaac our second child, started school. I was so concentrating on what...

A World at our Door - Local Markets

Welcome again to new subscribers who have come in through friends' recommendations to see the Small Adventure videos in eddyhopping.com. I am springtime happy that you've joined us. This week I get...