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Nomad Mother: October 2009

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Friday, October 23, 2009. Sneezing, itching, eyes streaming – wandering the garden like a small walking storm system, watering hankies, thinking how marvellous it is my body can intercept and register so well all this fertility of the plants! Posted by Nomad Mother. Labels: Spring; permaculture garden. Thursday, October 1, 2009. Ro aerating the soil with the very fine Gundaroo tiller:. Putting straw out over the slashed green manure crop (oats and broad beans) to keep the carbon in the soil:.

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Nomad Mother: April 2009

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Saturday, April 18, 2009. Weeks and weeks ago Cam scratched Yarrow's initials into one of the passionfuit that are growing higgeldy-piggeldy over the chook yard. It scarred up and kept growing. And now they're ready, lovely and sweet and tangy,. And Yarrow has his very own one to play with. Posted by Nomad Mother. Labels: home-grown; passion fruit; food growing; vertical spaces. Old fashioned Easter for newly-fashioned boy. Oooo, the joy of being a Mum and getting to make special things special! Here Ro ...

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Nomad Mother: Spring is sprung!

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Thursday, October 1, 2009. Here's Ro and Cam preparing the terrace beds ready for their spring planting. Many little seedlings are sprouting in trays in the greenhouse, corn and tomatoes and capsicums and pumpkins, cucumbers and many other delicious things. Ro aerating the soil with the very fine Gundaroo tiller:. Putting straw out over the slashed green manure crop (oats and broad beans) to keep the carbon in the soil:. Posted by Nomad Mother. Labels: permaculture; mulch; veggie beds; green manure.

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Nomad Mother: May 2009

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Friday, May 22, 2009. Brown life, brim full. Went for a wander this evening to enjoy the damp autumn with Yarrow and was amazed to find so many different fungi budding up through leaf litter and pine needles, even in the nooks and dark places of our own garden. Along the railway tracks and under our nasturtiums, soft nutbrown homes for wee folk. . The fungi budding up like periscopes, hiding in the dark, enjoying the damp and the fire colours of autumn. . And light a candle in its window. Canberra Organi...

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Nomad Mother: May 2010

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Wednesday, May 19, 2010. Here is our wee girl! So happy to have her here with us, she was born beautifully in the water April 30 after a very short, sharp labour! Ro has been wonderful with her, tries to feed her his brocolli and informs me she needs milk when she pokes out her tongue. We are happily tucked up in the yurt as the weather turns autumn and frost sparkles on our roof in the morning sun. Posted by Nomad Mother. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Canberra Organic Growers Association. To warm the heart.

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Nomad Mother: March 2010

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Monday, March 29, 2010. A wee turtle cave. The other morning Cam found a wee baby turtle tumbled into the grease-trap pit (part of the greywater reed bed system, more on that anon), and duly plopped it in the dam. Then a few days later our Canadian woofers found another one, also in the pit! PS Still getting my head around new Mac - no idea why this photo is coming in sideways? If you would all obligingly turn your heads onto your left shoulders you will see the soft bits of shell in the foreground!

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Nomad Mother: June 2009

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Tuesday, June 23, 2009. A real true food forest. K C have given the green light from Uganda – we’re establishing a food forest! All the elf in Cam is rejoicing…. Follows the pattern of a wild woodland, mimicking what works so well in nature, but in this case is all edible. So the canopy will be peach, apricot and plum trees, the understorey red, white and black currants and other berries, and the groundcovers a fragrant mix of culinary and medicinal herbs – o! Posted by Nomad Mother. Tuesday, June 2, 2009.

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Nomad Mother: August 2009

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Sunday, August 30, 2009. It was Ro's first birthday just a little bit ago, and I was on midwifery placement caring for women in labour, thinking, "This time last year I was in Samoa doing this.". Woke up just before dawn in the glowing white box of our mozzie net in the moonlight, full moon out the window, with the first pains just starting quietly, and our little man was born in our bedroom with two local midwives, five incredible hours later.   . Posted by Nomad Mother. Wednesday, August 26, 2009.