How To Make Echinacea Tincture
Let me introduce Ali Sutherland – Medical Herbalist, and my lovely friend. Many of you will have met her here already at a workshop or on a weed walk. We harvested my Echinacea together recently, and...
View ArticleSummer Garden Tour And Pizza Party
Celebrate the end of summer with us! I’ll take you for a garden tour and chat about what’s worked and what hasn’t – all the good stuff I’ve learned this summer. Then we’ll park up round the slab table...
View ArticleKawakawa + Ginger Tea
Kawakawa has a special place in my heart – it was the first ‘real’ (ie not from a bag) herb tea I ever made many moons ago. Such a powerful healer – 72 medicinal uses according to Murdoch Reilly,...
View ArticleLupin’s Grand Finale (How To Finish A Greencrop)
Greencrops are your soils secret weapon. How I love them, for the nourishing respite they bring our hardworking soils. They are an important regroup between crops because a greencrop is the only crop...
View ArticleHarvest Smarts – Kumara, Squash and Pumpkin.
When To Harvest Kumara Our hot summer means a mega kumara harvest coming up. A pre harvest soil tickle reveals good sized tubers .. super excited after lasts years miserable effort. And harvest is soon...
View ArticleMarch In The Vegie Patch
Autumn is here and once the nights start cooling off the soil will soon follow. Those cooler temps slow growth right down. May plantings will take much longer to mature than April plantings, taking...
View ArticleFabulous Fruit Trees!
Fabulous Fruit Trees April 7 @ 9:30 am – 2:30 pm $150.00 Join Sarah Frater from Edible Garden (our local fruit tree specialist); and myself for the ultimate fruit tree workshop! We’ll be talking smart...
View ArticleThank You!
Thanks guys! We did it! Your cups of coffee paid for last months newsletter send out. All those $5 added up. Paypal put many of you off – and I understand. The thing is, paypal is super easy my end and...
View ArticleIntroducing Guilds
Mutually beneficial relationships bring out the best in us. We are better, stronger when we team up. Same goes for plants. Fruit trees team up with pollinator seducers and dynamic accumulator herbs for...
View ArticleMinestrone Soup + Delicious Dairy Free Pesto
There is no doubt about it – today is a soup kind of day. What better cheer than a bowl of nourishing, hearty Minestrone soup. Such an adaptable whatever’s-in-your-garden-or-cupboard kind of meal. Top...
View ArticlePruning Fruit Trees: A Beginners Guide
Here she is – the cover of my book. I feel a little proud. Fingers crossed we’ll be finished for you next month, so you can use it this winter to unbundle pruning. This is the grown up version of the...
View ArticleBright Ideas For Tree Planting
Winter is on it’s way. I may be a small minority here, but I’m cool with winter, look forward to it even. My love for our coldest season has a bit to do with the fact that it’s tree planting time. How...
View ArticleA Heap Of Bright Ideas, My Pruning Book + A New Fertiliser
Dear Gardeners, For many years it was my wish to grow a vegetable garden with no bought fertiliser. But I was never successful. I now know that my goals of abundant crops and a minimum of pest and...
View ArticleMay In The Vegie Patch + Strawberries + Asparagus
Things To Do In The Vegie Patch This Month Leave nothing bare! Soil prefers to be growing stuff – a crop or greencrop preferably. If weeds is what you’ve got and you’re just too busy – then let it be...
View ArticleMy Pruning Book + Kim Hill +Tony Murrell
Here it is – my labour of love, “Pruning Fruit Trees: A Beginners Guide.” And we’re giving you, my wonderful readers, the opportunity to pre-order – first option as it were, in appreciation of all your...
View ArticlePre-order Pruning Fruit Trees: A Beginners Guide
Oh brave and happy day! Edits finished, copy checked – my book went to the printer today. All that work – and now she’s gone. My baby has flown the nest. June 14th is our launch date. Next stop, you! A...
View ArticlePruning Cuts Explained + How To Prune Feijoas
Before you prune anything, I want you to understand two types of pruning cuts. What a difference to your fruit trees when you give up heading and get thinning! Excerpt from ” Pruning Fruit Trees: A...
View ArticleJune In The Vegie Patch, Perennial Leeks + Yam Patience
Hurrah for winter! It took a while, but we got there. Hurrah for a natural end to pests, to the slowing down of weed growth and a break from the intensity of the autumn vegie patch. Hurrah to...
View ArticleHow To Prune An Avocado
If there is one thing I’ve learnt over the years teaching pruning, it’s that when I start to talk about old wood, new wood, two year old wood – your mind squeezes shut with fear. So I’m hoping that...
View ArticleApple Pudding Pots
A quick winters pudding – hot, apple-y goodness. From Caralee Caldwell’s “Real Food Everyday” recipe book. 2 small red apples 1/2c coconut milk 1/4c coconut flour 2 eggs 4 Tblspns maple syrup or rice...
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