Category: Backyard Farming
It’s a Strange Thing to Expect Something From Nothing
For some strange reason I thought I could create a new vegetable garden bed, buy in some good quality soil and grow food. Honestly, I know better. I just had a brain fart since I spent years making compost and developing such healthy soil in the vegetable garden at our old home.
How to Start a Vegetable Garden and Grow Delicious Food
WaterUps self watering pots are great if you want to grow your own herbs and don’t have a lot of space. They are also self watering,
How to Worm Farm: Management and Producing Thriving Results
Tips to make sure your worm farm doesn’t smell, and isn’t a home for flies, cockroaches and ants. Make composting food scraps fun.
Is There a Food Revolution About to Happen Soon?
We need to get back to the love of food, the love of flavour and texture, and start reaping all the healthy nutrients that the land provides us when we farm sustainably.
Crazy Carrots and Cute Kids Growing and Picking Vegetables
It’s been a long time since I last grew carrots, mainly because they aren’t easy and they take a long time to grow before you can harvest them. But, my kids LOVE eating carrots, so it doesn’t make sense that we aren’t growing our own. Thus, we changed that, and we got these funny shaped carrots…
My First Chicken Rooster Harvest Challenge
The real life highs and lows of keeping chickens as back yard pets.
Spoilt Backyard Chickens Get Fancy Feeders for Thanks Giving
It’s thanks giving weekend and the chickens are getting well and truly looked after. The chickens and I were gifted a brand new super efficient chicken feeder. My daughter’s birthday present of seven baby chicks are currently living in the old coop, but will be in the main hen house before we know it. Which will…
Meet The New Chicks On The Block
We are super lucky that the Northern Beaches Council encourages its residents to keep chickens for sustainability purposes. That said, we don’t live on acreage and roosters are not allowed. So I’ve been avoiding getting day old chicks for a few years now. But when your daughter asks for baby chickens for her fourth birthday,…
The Vegetable Garden Explodes When You Go Adventuring
I must confess that I get upset about abandoning our vegetable garden, dogs and chickens before going on holidays. This is seriously apparent in the busy lead up to spring. Sure my vegetable garden is all mulched and can survive a week without being watered. But it certainly won’t thrive through spring and summer after…
How to Make Quick Compost Without an Expensive System
Making compost is the best way to grow healthy plants. Your vegetable crop will demand lots from the soil, so the way to get delicious food is to have rich soil
How to Install a Raised Garden and Grow Vegetables
There are many things to consider when making a new garden bed, particularly when the intention is to grow food. The most important thing is the amount of sun that the spot in the garden gets. To grow vegetables you need a minimum of six hours of sunshine a day. When deciding to start growing…
Garden Update Growing Delicious Vegetables in Sydney in Summer
So much is happening out in the veggie garden at the moment. Lunch and dinner salad both came from the backyard. Despite the battle I’m currently having with fruit fly. I say battle, but I really haven’t been doing much defense other than removing fruit that has been attacked. I’m doing my best to keep…
Summer In The Vegetable Garden
Summer is in full swing, but my veggie garden is only just plodding along. It’s true what they say, you only get out what you put in. Sadly at the moment my time management skills are really being put to the test. Thankfully we always seem to have herbs growing in the garden. As I…
My Kitchen Garden Organic Summer Harvest Best of Sustainable Living
This evening I ventured out in to the vegetable garden to gather dinner. What I found was slim pickings of lettuce (as I left it too long between succession planting), some delicious yellow tomatoes, basil, chilies and two eggs from the chickens. We made a simple garden salad that didn’t include the chili or the…
Time Goes Too Fast When You’re Having Fun
My last post was on Thursday 19th September, for a very valid reason, I went in to labour at the lovely time of 2am on Friday 20th September. I was lucky enough to be holding my gorgeous baby girl in my arms by 8:22am. Since then I have seriously lost all concept of time. It…