Overcome the High cost of feeding yourself and your family
Returning to a way of feeding my family by using methods from the past. Also sharing the ways we can succeed when on a budget, even when we don’t have a large area to use, or even just having a windowsill or a large plant pot.
My goodness, it’s the second week in January 2024 – already!!! Christmas spent with the family, daughter Christmas Eve/morning, Christmas Day/Boxing Day at my son’s. Even with the rain interfering with the Summer sunshine it was a wonderful time. I am so blessed with my family 🙂 My daughter and I, Nicola, had a great … Read more
Checked on my veggie beds today, after three days away cat/house sitting. A lovely, peaceful break for me as they live on a 15ha block, ten minutes walk from their local beach, and my home is on a main road. Traffic from 4.30am till 11pm. I don’t really mind that as I live alone, so … Read more
This morning I checked on my new veggie plants – Oops! Well, the warm. often humid conditions we’re experiencing here have resulted in my quickly realising that eighteen Bok Choy plants in various colours and varieties, was way too much to plant for just one person. So I laughed to myself and pulled most of … Read more
Progress!!! Goodness me! – Couch grass has such determined roots, But I have even more determination, and so, finally, this morning I pulled out that stubborn flipping bunch. Potted flowers are now sitting on the weed free raised bed, waiting for the removal of all the remaining roots and the new soil which will give … Read more
Planning beds for my veggies I remember a few years ago, watching a TV programme about the prospects for space tourism. Need to be pretty darn wealthy AND young to enjoy one of those trips, I thought. Then about half way through, what should pop up, but a segment on the need to eat while … Read more
Beginning again, starting with raised veggie beds while I work to acquire the hydroponic equipment Found my first notes on growing hydroponically this week and realised how much I have learned in the years since I wrote them and bought my first kit, – a large rectangular dish with a four hole cover, from a … Read more