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A whole year of growing, digging, fermenting, and canning eventually comes down to a shelf. Here's what was actually on it, as of early July:
Pantry - 2× pasta sauce - 14× tomato sauce - 4× tomato paste - 3× (huge) jars of pears with cardamom - 4× beef bone broth - 2× rendered lard - About 1…
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Autumn is when the garden hands over the last of what it's got, and the cider press comes back out.
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If this year's harvest had a main character, it was tomatoes. Here's how it went, roughly day by day.
Early January was all impatience. The tomatoes just needed consistent days over 22°C to actually ripen, and Wellington — as Wellington does — wasn't cooperating. "Come on #Wellingt…
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By November the garden stopped being a promise and started being an actual source of food again.
I saw a strawberry wine idea online somewhere and decided it was now a mission. It went straight onto the to-do list alongside dress rehearsals and concerts: harvest b…
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It's spring again, which means it's time to look back at what an entire year of "grow it, ferment it, preserve it" actually looked like — starting last August, when none of this year's harvest existed yet, just seedlings, hail, and a lot of hope.
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We've just harvested the kūmara. It needs a warm summer, and this was the first summer we've grown it in a raised garden bed instead of a bag.
At first, I thought it was a failure. I poked around the roots and found nothing. We pull out the g…
kūmara
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Ants, slugs, and snails don't much like coffee. But worms do like it. If, like me, you have an abundance of coffee grounds from staying home, you can sprinkle the coffee around the vege to deter these creatures. It also fertilizes the plants and disappears into the soil after a f…
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There's so much baking going on here, stuck at home under the nationwide pandemic lockdown – and when we can get eggs we end up with many eggshells. These can be crushed and placed around the base of brassica like cabbage and broccoli. Snails and slugs don't …
broccoli
cabbages
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Due to the pandemic lockdown, I can't go to the hardware store to get things. I've been in semi-isolation since the start of march, and we've been in nationwide lockdown since last week.
I needed to set up the nets to keep out the white butterfly. I've had to be creative and i've had to recycle …
cabbages
broccoli
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this is one way to amuse us while in nationwide pandemic lock down
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7CiGyqLdu8
Recipe for kamokamo fritters
kamokamos
coffee
