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Getting The Front Plot Under Control 🌿
04/06/2025

Getting The Front Plot Under Control 🌿

While the kids are harvesting feijoas, I'm back in The Front Plot getting it tidied up for more autumn planting. The grass weeds down the back are no joke! I...

Making Easter Fun While The Storm Rages ✝️🍂
02/06/2025

Making Easter Fun While The Storm Rages ✝️🍂

The wind was raging on Easter weekend but we did a lot of fun and tasty things - making two kinds of hot cross buns, making waffles for a brunch, meandering ...

Weird Things Homesteaders do Before a Cyclone
02/06/2025

Weird Things Homesteaders do Before a Cyclone

Apparently there's a cyclone on the way, so we have things to get done! You know, normal-weird homesteading things like putting netting on the cloche tunnel,...

The Garden of Ancient Discoveries!If you need a good laugh... 🤣
15/05/2025

The Garden of Ancient Discoveries!
If you need a good laugh... 🤣

When my son is working in the garden with me, everything is an opportunity for entertainment and this one is full of of his highly comedic antics! The kids a...

Can I Install The Gate Before The Storm?We're almost there! 🛠️
09/05/2025

Can I Install The Gate Before The Storm?
We're almost there! 🛠️

The chicken pen gate is ready to be installed. Whether the weather cooperates or not, I want to get it up before it gets really stormy! The chickens, of cour...

Making The Chicken Pen GATEGetting my hands stuck into this project. 😃
30/04/2025

Making The Chicken Pen GATE
Getting my hands stuck into this project. 😃

Alright guys, I'm making this chicken pen gate! Come with me as I choose which timber to use from our stash, think through how I want to build it and attach ...

Which Gate Option Should I Build?Decisions, decisions, but I'm glad to be getting this started. 🛠️
22/04/2025

Which Gate Option Should I Build?
Decisions, decisions, but I'm glad to be getting this started. 🛠️

Right, I'm getting started on fixing this chicken pen gate today! But I've thought of multiple different options, so which one should I choose? I'm also show...

When You Don't Fix a GateWell, now it really needs fixing. 🐓😒
20/04/2025

When You Don't Fix a Gate
Well, now it really needs fixing. 🐓😒

It's chicken coop cleaning day but it's taking longer than expected because the chickens are escaping out of the gate that I haven't fixed yet... I'm also ta...

Still Doing The POTATOES! 😂🥔
16/04/2025

Still Doing The POTATOES! 😂🥔

It's been hot and dry but the veggie garden is still hanging in there and there is food to harvest. And snack on! The kids are also helping to harvest the se...

Meeting The Petersens & Finding The MotherloadSometimes dreams come true! 🤩
05/04/2025

Meeting The Petersens & Finding The Motherload
Sometimes dreams come true! 🤩

The Petersens came to New Zealand and we got to see them in concert and meet them! But aside from being starstruck it's hands back in the dirt as the kids an...

Before They Get Eaten... 🌱
30/03/2025

Before They Get Eaten... 🌱

Oops, I forgot to cover my seed trays! I need to pot up my brassica seedlings before they get eaten alive and because they need their own space as well. It m...

The Garden of Summer (And Creepy Wallpaper)Things are definitely more beautiful in the veggie garden than in the house r...
29/03/2025

The Garden of Summer (And Creepy Wallpaper)
Things are definitely more beautiful in the veggie garden than in the house right now. 😁

We're thick in the throes of house renovations but the garden is somehow still cranking. I'm taking a break from dealing with crazy wallpaper to harvest vegg...

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