We bred silkie chickens in the past.  They are a lovely breed of chicken.  When we moved to acreage we decided to get a larger dual purpose ...

I love mulberries. They are an amazing fruit that you usually can’t buy from the markets as they don't store and are just too delicate ...

I really like my white shahtoot mulberry.  Each spring it is absolutely covered in long sweet mulberries.  As we are heading into winter her...

This past summer I had a few people comment on my yellow fruited raspberries.  Most people were taken by their stunning colour.  The people ...

When I was young I grew a cape sundew ( Drosera capensis ), it lived for many years and was rather large by the end.  It was the first carni...

You don't see many non-photosynthetic plants, which is probably a good thing.  I am not talking about fungi, they are not plants.  I am ...

This year I grew some buckwheat.   I grew buckwheat mostly for the flowers, it was planted so late that the frost will likely kill it before...

I decided to start recording flowering times each week over a year, this helps me to know when my bees have ample food and when they may str...

When I was young I heard amazing stories of how sunflowers ( Helianthus annuus ) turn their flowers throughout the day to follow the sun. T...

There are very few red fleshed apple varieties available in Australia at the moment.  One is called 'Red Love'.  Apparently there ar...