Growing herbs is a great way to begin your gardening journey. Herbs are easy to grow and you don't even need a garden! As long as they...

My love affair with herbs began many years ago--more than I care to remember. Many people think of herbs as plants simply used to enhance...

aka - Why I love my worm farm If I can find a way to close the loop on my own waste and keep that waste out of a land fill, then I'm all...

I walked out of the living room and slipped my feet into my low cut ‘gumboots’. Gumboots are ‘Wellington boots’ if you’re in the United...

Compost is the main-stay of the no-dig garden. I could have headlined this post "All the dirt on the dirt!" Without a good layer of...

Why did I choose no-dig gardening for my small urban plot? Mainly because we had no top soil and a scraped bare patch of land to begin...

How many of these amazing people do you know? These are the people who have influenced the way that I garden, they have changed my life...

Do you want to eat healthy, home grown food, but you just don't think it's as easy as everyone says it is? I got tired of looking around...

My blog exists to help people who live on a small piece of land grow plenty of healthy food right in their own back yard. 1. Empower you...

We've been harvesting peaches like mad people over the last week. Over 12 kg stewed and now in the freezer! We stewed 4kgs of plums as...

There's nothing like channeling your inner Laura Ingalls-Wilder... If peach season doesn't do it, nothing will :-) I have a variety of...

I’m a great believer in growing food, not lawns. It’s incredible the amount of resources that go into keeping a blanket of green growing...

So, it's the day before New Year's Eve here in New Zealand. Life continues on with very little thought for the pandemic that continues to...

I’ve wanted chickens forever! Not for their eggs or their meat, but for their assistance in the vegetable garden.

Today, I am 19 years sober. Even to write that is such a miracle. I don't share this to brag...

Some days it felt like I’d woken up in an episode of “The Handmaid’s Tale” Early on, when we learned that we should wear masks and gloves...

I say it over and over again and I will continue to say it until I draw my last breath... There is magic in putting pen to paper....

Feeding the earth feels very much to me like feeding the soul. Without growing my soil, there is nothing for the beautiful flowers,...

It's fair to say when you grow up with a Vox amp and a double bass in your bedroom there's always going to be something musical in your...

There's not a day goes by that I don't find myself scribbling something down in my Passion Pulse. It's my private journal and it's also...