gardening-self-sufficiency

A new mini blog for my gardening posts

I have decide to pull the gardening and self sufficiency section out of this blog. This week I set up www.goingabitgreen.com to run something a little more specific to the new adventures in self sufficiency for beginners. Will see how it goes. Only 1 post up but many more to...

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Rebuilding a garden…. and our health?

One year ago, November 2008, saw a decent storm waltz through Brisbane.  It absolutely devastated The Gap, and out where we live on the north side of Brisbane we copped a fair bit of it as well. Our acreage property had trees down and damage all over, none to our...

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Choosing the right tool for the job, gardens or web tech, it saves in the end.

My camping holiday is over again. I came back to my semi rural property overgrown and messy. My ride-on mower had gone to God; it was hot and didn’t look like I was in for much fun at all. Several options ran through my head: Can I force this old...

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Feeding oneself – life’s hard school

Gardening. One of life’s oddities. So many love it. Others find it bemusing. Sounds a little like social media. We moved to acreage 18 months ago, as a lifestyle choice. Part of the new journey on our paradise plot is that gardening of all sorts and sizes is very much...

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