Growing this week
This week, we are growing: More of these beautiful but barren clouds. Some veggies, including our first ever cabbages. Aren’t they sweet? Those yard-long beans are much favoured by the […]
Category Archives: Farming
A little mill
Some time back, I bought my year’s supply of shikakai. This is such a useful fruit: I use it to wash clothes (handwash only!), dishes, sanitary fittings, and my hair. […]
Walled off, and that’s not a kind of salad
Two months and much parleying later, we still don’t have a road. On the contrary, there is now a wall at each end, making it even more inaccessible. It seems […]
Ten trees you owe the planet
I’ve been too busy the last few weeks to post or even read my favourites on WordPress, but this morning I happened to read this post by Jeremy Williams. His […]
Cut off!
Once, not so long ago, we had a road leading to our farm. A sort of road anyway. One day last week, an inhabitant of a neighbouring village, whom I […]
Enjoying summer without fridge or fan
Until I was about ten, we had no fridge in our house. And again, when I got married, we couldn’t afford one, so we did without for the first four […]
Sheet mulch
Finally, I’ve done something that I’ve been obsessing over for months, ever since I read Gaia’s Garden: a sheet mulch. According to Toby Hemenway, this is the best and most […]
