There’s been a loud ticking sound around the place in the last week. Â No, it’s not the cicadas arriving early but the sound of jobs being ticked off the list. Â Well, I confess, it’s actually writing being smudged off the chalk board but I like the...
With a taste that can be as sharp as their thorns gooseberries are not to everyone’s liking. I love the  crisp bite and piquant flavour that livens the palette whether you eat them straight from the bush or wrap them in a luxurious blanket of cream and sugar....
As my bones creak and muscles ache I can only imagine this is how Sisyphus would have felt on his quest to push a boulder up a hill. Whilst much of the rest of New Zealand heads to the beach, the lakes or the mountains we stay at home and make our annual effort to...
I don’t know about you but I’m feeling a little short changed by 2011.  It’s been a good year in so many ways but it has passed in a flash and I don’t feel I’m done with it yet. But that’s time for you, running away at its own...
Today is the longest day marking mid way in the food gardening season. Â For once I feel that I may be about on track with all my crops having got seedlings and seeds into the ground in record time compared to other years. Â That is apart from my garlic which was...