Zone Four Chop and Drop
Tom Kendall manages his Zone Four Swale.
Tagged: environment
Transplanting lettuces
Transplanting self sown lettuces into a more convenient location, using compost made by the biodigester and the chickens from cow and chicken manure, and mulch cut on the property.
New cell grazing paddock for the cows
Cows: cell grazing, on heat and their manure as skin conditioner…
Geoff Lawton filming our farm
Geoff Lawton spends the day on our farm with his family, to film our many permaculture systems.
The armchair critic
Zaia is upset with armchair critics focusing on and creating problems, instead of doing the physical work and creating solutions.
Easter weekend at the farm…
Easter weekend with the animals and music on our permaculture farm…
Every job has more than one purpose
Tom Kendall’s “every job should have more than one purpose” in action, lopping guava trees for paddock clearing and goat forage at Maungaraeeda.
Learning the biodigester routine and banana flour
Zaia feeds the biodigester in order to feed herself and her family and makes banana flour for sweet and savoury egg free dishes!
Centralisation and our fossil fuel future
Zaia discusses her viewpoint on centralisation, fossil fuels and empowerment of the people through their own energy creation.
Swimming in my gumboots…
Sowing clucker tucker seed, grass for mulch, another biodigester pit emptied and a load of sawdust… Lots of shoveling today!
Poop scoopin’, harvesting and hatching
Harvesting, eggs hatching and poop scooping at Maungaraeeda, permaculture home of Tom and Zaia Kendall.
Weeding and my fight with the Madagascar bean
Zaia writes about her weeding day and her struggle with the Madagascar bean vine which was strangling a rosemary bush at her and Tom’s permaculture farm.
