Of all the things we have done...

It is storming outside, a real wild wet Cape winter storm. I woke at 5.30 with one thing on my mind - my chickens! They are safe …

Permacutlture at Hilltop Farm

While away I connected with a friend who moved to this area about 18 months ago to live on a rented farm. What a pleasure to see …

Water, weed and feed me!

Now that the major planting work has finished it is time to maintain this garden of ours. The temperatures are climbing steadily …

A quick chicken tutorial

Over the last week two friends have asked some questions about keeping urban chickens. The first question is pretty simple - &quo…

Chickens in heaven

Incredible Hulk and Superman worked hard all morning on our latest project. They had to put up a temporary fence around the area …

Dances-With-Wolves....?

Nope...Gardens-With-Chickens! Today I had to plant up a new section that Superman built for me at our front gate. It's in ful…

1 day until Spring!

We managed to get most of the work done this weekend with the exception of planting the squashes and preparing the buckets for to…

Winter jobs in the garden

With the warm sun today, even though it is mid winter we all had a hundred things to do in the garden. My husband (being the grea…