The little red hen pictured in the banner photo was only with us for a week or so. She eventually took off over the fence before I could clip her wing. She took shelter a couple of houses up in a building site over the winter. We crept in one afternoon to find a pile … Continue reading Red October – A Community Minded, Free-Range Chicken
This website page was discovered recently and much to my surprise and amusement Petit Paradis scrapes in at No. 9. I'm very honored to be in the company of the other blogs listed, they inspire me too. There are some great landscaping pics. Thank you Armstone. While the posts on this gardening blog have been a … Continue reading 9 Aussie Gardening & Landscaping Blogs to Inspire You
Shortly after this photo was taken of our beloved Weet-Weets I decided to turn them Free-Range again. Most everything was growing in pots or containers and was away from those little gnashing teeth. So I set up several little Safe Houses for them and let them go in the chook pen. This did not last … Continue reading Guinea Pigs Update
The slope of rampant grass and stacked wood is soon to become our new Petit Paradis (or Kin's Domain). About 4 years ago my wife and I were introduced to The Ringing Cedars of Russia series of books. We read the ones that appealed the most, at the time. I don’t recall the names, … Continue reading Book Of Kin
As posted earlier, to make posting to this blog easier I have limited the post labels to a dozen. These are the permaculture principles and to this point I have not added them to previous posts. The reason for this is to create a kind of demarcation point between the 'old blog' and the new. A … Continue reading A line in the sand -The New Petit Paradis
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