Our rabbit breeding ventures are under way with Luna, our grey Flemish Giant giving birth to seven kits around the 1st of May. This is the first time we have bred rabbits and we have really only started it at our current property so that we can get a handle on it before we move to … Continue reading The Rabbits of Petit Paradis
Recently I have been really attracted to Wormwood, Artemisia absinthium. My previous experiences of the herb have been limited to a small shrub that looks really shabby and tolerates dry areas, but only just. Rather embodying the energy of a slug in a puddle. So it has been with a great deal of surprise that … Continue reading Wormwood
Tillellan - Back in the day. This photo of Tillellan was taken very early on in her life. She has been passed along through my wife's family and spent a considerable portion of her later life empty. My wife and I rented here for a little while and loved the location with its proximity to … Continue reading Introducing: Tillellan
This is Jazz. One of our original Petit Paradis guinea pigs, sunning herself happily in our garden. People are often surprised and curious that we have guinea pigs running free in our edible garden so I thought I should do a post about it. I've kept guinea pigs free in the yard for over 5 years now and … Continue reading Why Free-Range Guinea Pigs? Part I
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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