The End
This is a blog about land. Dirty, thrilling land. When I was ten I remember walking my grandfather’s 1300 acres near Taupo in New Zealand feeling unsettled in the vastness and quiet. Despite 38 years...
View ArticleThe Right Kind of Tweet, or, How I Came To Choose This Patch
In October 2011, during a holiday from yachts, I took a tour with mother Judy to see what kind of land was available 90 minutes from Melbourne. I was looking for a place I might one day make a...
View ArticleGlamour Job
This afternoon I pulled off my boots and poured out a rich cow poo tea that had brewed nicely after a day in the wet. Yesterday I started a rather ambitious gardening project – collecting several...
View ArticleThe Neighbourhood in Fog
Missing Italy quite a bit. The look, the feel, the buildings, the landscape (the one euro roadside espresso, the food, the food, the food.) So I was delighted to wake up the other morning to a thick...
View ArticleIn Pictures
That bunch of teeth there is a group of ecstatic city dwellers being herded to their garlic planting work stations in the back of the ute – a nice little thrill for all concerned. Planting 2,500 cloves...
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