Strange pressures
Joseph I’m spending much of December with my parents. Their property is 40 acres in Queensland, warmer certainly with frost a rarity but it also has 300mm more rainfall a year,…
Water, water everywhere
I will happily admit to not being a plumber, however, living on a property has required me to develop a certain set of skills. It’s arguable if I have developed…
Prickly pears
As a former Queenslander, I’ve always been slightly suspicious of the prickly pear. Prickly pear was introduced into Australia by colonialists and spread rapidly, occupying 60 million acres by the…
Living mulch
Evaporation is the enemy. Whether by sun or wind it is to be avoided. One of my favourite videos is a lecture on mulch by Dr Linda Chalker-Scott where she…