SUN SETTING ON PAPER BEANS

Chook rotation garden plans for different seasons

Watercolour garden plans

Close up of watercolour garden plan

2012 garden diary on homemade paper

Watercolour bean thank you letter

Watercolour calendar garden task list

 

The perfect summer weather is mocking me while I work, the upstairs study becomes a hot house, while I dream of being at the beach! This, my friends, is a lesson on the importance of passive solar design and insulation!

I have been wickedly slack with a hard drive full of Christmas photos to put up, but it’s funny how delightful things become a chore when there is an overwhelming number to go through and edit. Just wait until I have to clean my room or do something productive and I shall fill your lives with beach and Gracie dog and a little bit of David Holmgren too.

In the meantime I have been catching up on my thank you notes and garden diary. It’s amazing how much less work I’ve had to put into it since the Permablitz, when we had the chook rotation, the planning that had to go into the beds and planting and harvesting just at the right time was ridiculous. I’m all for the new chickens roaming the orchard in winter thing, now if only they could learn how to use their new Red Comb Chook Feeder…

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JUST ADD WATER

I have been dabbling into book binding and would love to make some notebooks to sell on etsy. I want them to be as eco friendly as I can so today I attempted to make my own paper from bits and bobs that would otherwise go into the recycling bin. Some bits of dried grass got in there when I scooped some spilled paper back in, and it actually looked quite nice, I might try some experimenting.

I promise if my books ever reach your shelves the pages will be a lot more uniform than these gentlemen hanging on the line. But a little dash of individuality makes life more interesting right?

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