
Chances are you heard about the severe bushfires that swept through Tasmania a couple of months ago. It was awful, a terrible combination of a hot dry summer and a day...
As may be apparent, 2013 has got off to a busy start for me. Summers in Hobart are jam-packed with things to do, I’ve struggled to find time to write and...
Oh dear, would you look at the state of this place? I don’t know how it gets away from me so. *brushes dust off the table* Ah well, never mind, sit...
Category: Anecdotes, Meta Tags: blogging, climate, Gardening, growing food, meta, summer, time management, too busy to blog, weather
Somehow January is almost over already, so I guess it’s high time I welcomed in the new year and thought about what 2013 will bring. 2012 was a big year for...
Category: Lifestyle, Meta Tags: 2013, carbon emissions, creating change, de-plasticing, environment, goals, greenhouse gas, peru, plastic, plastic pollution, sustainable living, travel, veggie patch, volunteering
I’ve just returned home from a failed attempt to do my usual weekly produce shop down at my local farmer’s market. I go most every Sunday to buy my fruit &...
These last couple of weeks I’ve been feeling a little low. This time of year does it to me: I get over-scheduled, over-committed, under-slept, and with most folk getting busy with...
Category: Community, Ethics, Farming & food systems, Food & cooking, Gardening, Industry & agriculture, Lifestyle, Rants & raves Tags: agriculture, backyard farming, bartering, community, food security, food systems, Gardening, grow your own food, in my garden, independence from supermarkets, seasonal eating, sustainable food
Tasmanians, the Forest Peace Deal Agreement is going through the Upper House, where the legislation will either pass, or crash and burn with a huge loss of public faith and return...
Category: Community, Ethics, Extractive industries, Politics & society, Rants & raves Tags: activism, compromise, creating the future, environmental activism, environmental politics, forest peace talks, legislation, petition, sustainability, Tasmania, Tasmanian Forest Agreement, Tasmanian Government
Spring is ramping up into summer now. The days are long, the evenings warm and I’m thinking I’ll need to take a hat on my walk to work from now on....
Category: Gardening, Health & wellbeing, Lifestyle, nature photography, Photography Tags: compulsive gardening, crop diversity, food, garden planning, garden zen, Gardening, growing things, heirloom vegetables, in my garden, mental-health, plants, seasonal eating, seedlings, sustainability, vegetables
I believe I’ve mentioned that the gardens here at the Cottage are very good at growing weeds. I’d been working hard to get rid of them up until a couple of...
I have a few strange habits: I keep every rubber band that enters my house in a container in a kitchen drawer. The frilly tulle bags from jewellery shops get tucked...
The shape of things to come