Thanks for the encouragement from Kat– here is an attempt at a short post.
So maybe you are saying to yourself, gee Bruce, how can I have some of that wacky cutting edge sustainability fun you seem to be having without leaving the country?
Look no further! The answer to your prayers is here!
Actually, the answer […]
A month or so ago Bruce and I attended our first free horticulture workshop at Christchurch Polytechnic Institute called “EM (effective microorganisms) and Bokashi”. This half day workshop, highly promoted by the Christchurch City Council, encourages folks to embrace this fascinating composting method which allows for the decomposition of food waste to […]
We’ve landed on the south island after a very smooth ferry crossing yesterday afternoon from Wellington to Picton. Today we’re heading west to the beautiful Golden Bay region where we will do two back-to-back wwoofings for a total of seven nights. These should be a bit more ‘light’ than the stint we did at Mara […]
We never really talked some of the cool things we saw and learned at Mara Whenua about permaculture and I recently realized that many folks don’t know what we’re talking about when we tell them we spent a week at an awesome permaculture ‘farm’. So, I thought it’d be worthy of a blogpost since […]
I’ve gotten more clarity after day seven at Mara Whenua: Start from the way you want to schedule your time which for me is at most four hours of work on stuff that needs to be done, then work my way up to perhaps four hours of exercise, leaving four to eight hours for reading, […]