Diversity
Column 9 of the HomeGrown Series The first thing my husband Tom did when we bought our farm was create the garden. We did some basic things to the house to make it habitable,...
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Cycling materials
Column 8 of the Homegrown series. We have never had a big budget on our farm, and a lot of the time have had to “make do” with whatever we were given, found or...
Scaling to suit your size
Column 7 of the Homegrown series Unfortunately the Weekend Magazine is no longer published due to closure of the printed Sunshine Coast Daily. Zaia will finish the series here online. We can play with...
Small animal systems
Column 6 in Homegrown, Weekend Magazine, Sunshine Coast Daily, by Zaia Kendall Animals are a joy to have around! They enrich our lives in so many ways! Here on the farm we have chooks,...
Containers or beds?
Column 5 in Homegrown, Weekend Magazine, Sunshine Coast Daily, by Zaia Kendall Tom and I are lucky to live in paradise and be land custodians. We have been able to plant our vegetables and...
Designing Resilience
Column 1 in Home Grown, weekend magazine, Sunshine Coast Daily, by Zaia Kendall. Design for resilience We have lived on our farm for 15 years now. In that time we have worked with a...
Compassion and forgiveness
Last weekend we had a not so nice weekend. We received a text with certain accusations. After we replied we were subsequently abused. Accusations and abuse were totally unfounded. But no matter what we...
Keeping your sanity in isolation
I have had intermittent stages of depression, stress and anxiety throughout my life. I have had to put processes in place to be able to deal with these times (I do not like medication),...
Reasons for denial and anger about climate change
Climate change is a much contested issue, but more and more evidence is surfacing now that it is real. Most scientists in the world agree that this unprecedented level of accelerated heating is most...
Permaculture: a holistic approach to life
When we tell people we practise permaculture, we usually get some questions. The interesting thing is the type of questions we are asked. Usually the person asking us has a plant or tree that has some sort of disease and we are asked what they can do about it. It is interesting how we are all so indoctrinated into thinking that someone who works with nature, plants and animals should just know how to treat something that is diseased without doing any further research or knowing the circumstances…
How we got our chooks to lay again…
Finding a connection between EMFs and hormonal symptoms, in human and animal. Going from 1 egg every 3 days to an average of 20 eggs per day, just by protecting our chooks from EMFs.
Stop debating and start planting!
My opinion on Facebook permaculture debates…
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