Moving hills
Need more flat space for a future garage – and some material to build a nice turn for our driveway. So we dig…
Category: A new life in NZ (2014-now)
A trench for the mains power cable
Undoubtedly an interesting machine this is. Like a monster chainsaw it crawls slowly through the sandy hill.
Veggie garden terraces
Our permaculture zone 2 area, just around the corner from the kitchen, on the wind protected hill side. Ideal slope for terraced vegetable garden beds.…
The chicken tractor
My recently attended permaculture design course revealed that one easy way to convert grass land into veggie beds is to use a chicken tractor. The…
We’re moving! Again
This is our third move in only six months (not counting the holiday destinations). After we initially arrived in Brooklyn Motueka last October, we’ve got the…
Making grape juice at the vineyard
End of summer is near when the grapes are getting red. School excursion of Verena’s class to a nearby organic vineyard.
Summer!
Summer in Motueka means 6-8 weeks no rain and every day temperatures around 26°C – awesome! :) The only downside of that: The hills are…
Jumping sheep
Our school has just bought a neat piece of land for their new campus and we had the opportunity to have a first look. Obviously…
Chopping firewood
“How hard can it be to split a few dozens of logs?” – I thought. Okay, so I went to Mitre10 to buy an axe.…
Pet sheep
Unfortunately our own sheep don’t know the concept of sheep nuts yet, so they always disappear as quick as possible when we get closer to them. Quite…