Week 31: The last garden bed
We’ve made our 72nd – and final – garden bed! On Monday morning, with six beds to go, Alex declared […]
Quitting the city to start a small-scale sustainable farm in Tasmania's Huon Valley
We’ve made our 72nd – and final – garden bed! On Monday morning, with six beds to go, Alex declared […]
A happy feature of winter is that even though mornings are chilly there is genuinely indoor work to do while […]
The week began with what felt like two days of continuous rain. According to the rain gauge (which I think […]
We had a range of wintry weather this week. Cold nights brought frost on Tuesday and Wednesday. There were blustery […]
The end of bed-making (the vegetable kind) is closer with Alex finishing the back row of beds this week. Happily […]
We’ve very quickly found ourselves halfway through our first year and beginning our first winter. That said, it’s not been […]
This post should be beginning with the first frost of the season and beautiful pictures of crystallised water droplets on […]
Good quality compost is crucial for the growing principles we’re trying to follow and so building our composing system this […]
“Next season” had seemed so distant and abstract in summer and even though it’s still on the other side of […]
This first mini-season was always designated for learning as much as we could while we set things up for the […]