Wild Hope Homestead

24/12/2025

Chicks go Outside for the First Time!
-- What will they do? 🐥😃

Our 9-day-old gold campine chicks are going outside on grass for the first time! I'm also planting bush beans, but first, I need to harvest the giant elephan...

17/12/2025

The Busiest Little Chicks

We get the fun of watching our new, fluffy gold campine chicks, which are rearing to go! I get some of the masses of veggie and flower seedlings planted and ...

09/12/2025

I Caught Them Red-handed (Hatching Day AND Gardening Day)
https://youtu.be/tR4SBRkXS5Y
-- Little chickens are coming! 🐣

Labour weekend finally allows some good gardening time but things have been eating my seedlings on the table again. I whip up a cloche or row cover to protec...

06/12/2025

Seed Madness & Quesadilla Goodness
https://youtu.be/JIA3cAxm8pY
-- Always check your gherkins... 😆

I can eat cheese now. I have a supply of preservative-free tortillas. We got a griddle. Yup, I'm making more breakfast quesadillas - even better ones! Steve'...

28/11/2025

I Had NO IDEA How Many There Were! (Night Mollusc Mission)
https://youtu.be/ptSsJ_E9mH8
-- This explains the plant disappearances... 😤

I completely underestimated the hordes of slugs and snails in my garden, so the battle is on! I'm resorting to beer bait traps and squishing night missions t...

23/11/2025

Welcome to the Lemon (and Cheese) Factory
https://youtu.be/PC9bjWDVP_E
-- It's a bit cheesy... 😁🧀🍋

We do a taste test between sheep and goat feta cheese and I find a breakfast casserole recipe to use the feta in plus our abundance of kale. The kids bring i...

20/11/2025

I Had to Deal with the Pea Situation 😒

I'm checking in on how everything is growing and something is consuming my peas and my basil! We fit in a short but pleasant visit to Auckland Botanic Garden...

12/11/2025

Our Vertical Planters are Finished!
-- I wish I'd done this sooner... 😍🌱🍓

We fill up the rest of our hanging planters with strawberries and greens and our vertical planter is complete! The kids are zooming around on the racing mowe...

02/11/2025

Happily Accidental Bulk Breakfasts
-- I wasn't planning to fill my freezer with these this week but... 🤗🥞🧇🌮

I'm trying to get the potatoes into the garden, but, once again, the weather is not cooperating, so I end up making some bulk breakfast food instead. Quesadi...

02/11/2025

Don't Leave me Hanging!
-- DIY project? Let's go! 😃🛠️

We're doing a DIY project that gets me excited - rails for hanging planters on the deck! With help from the family my hanging strawberry planter plan is comi...

21/10/2025

Health Update Post-Gastroscopy

It's a beautiful spring day, humming with outdoor activity. First, I'm doing a health update after my gastroscopy procedure, with some interesting finds and ...

20/10/2025

“The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.”
― Mother Teresa