Our new guinea pigs arrived today. I've steadily been patching up some old hutches and we were ready to start bringing in the animals as part of our garden set-up. This is exciting to me because as far as kitchen scraps go, we have some pretty decent ones in my opinion. Given that we eat … Continue reading Our New Guinea Pigs Arrive
I've been cranking out projects recently. New nails, old nails. Each has been more than capable of doing the job. All manner of irritating descriptions on my To Do List have been getting a working over. I've nearly finished the rabbit hutch with a worm farm underneath to catch droppings and food scraps. I moved … Continue reading More Tales from the Rusty Nail
In the darkness I watched the silhouette of the possum as it stared back watching me. It was a young Ring-tailed Possum. I'm thrilled to have them around the garden, though I'm sure they are eating our strawberries. In designing our garden, I am having to make allowances for those creatures that the neighbours said … Continue reading Ringtail Possums
I was out in the garden early this morning. 5 am. The Cuckoo shrike was about as were Purple-crowned Lorikeets wheeling about high in the sky while the gums are blooming. As I stood on a ladder to get a shot of the garden a magpie flew in at close range and sat on the … Continue reading Filling the Bioreactor
Some luck in the garden today. I have been looking into worm farming as a way of composting larger amounts of garden waste material and kitchen scraps and creating the worm castings that are so valuable to the garden. I've more recently come across the Johnson-Su Bioreactor and was impressed by: the large quantity of … Continue reading Bioreactors
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