After much blog chatter about my Bok Choi it was first harvest this week. It was a low key affair as I grabbed two plants from the potager in a hurry on my way back from putting the chickens to bed. I do the messy clean up of the plants in the utility room, close... I’m not sure it’s a good thing when this happens to your Bok Choi. One day they were growing leaves and the next moment I turn and look they are sprouting flowers. Pesky things. There is plenty of growth in the potager right now on account of the... It’s been all of a dither here at Domestic HQ this week. Best laid plans going askew as the pace of work and home life overtakes my capability to deal with it all. What’s amazed me is how I’ve re-calibrated my life to a more pleasurely pace and I... Until we get a couple of pigs I won’t feel like we are truly living the New Zealand dream. Whilst we’ve got the dream house, the chickens, the bassets it’s not until we have a couple of porkers fattening in the bush will I think we’ve really... Sunshine was back again yesterday bringing with it a positively balmy 15 degrees. Perfect weather for us to get outside for some land management chores. Today we were expanding the orchard planting another 6 fruit trees which arrived by courier from the lovely... 