Graham R. Cooper's personal journal about modern-day homesteading at Little Owl Gully.
My feet, in gumboots, crunch down on the dry, brittle stalks of the linseed straw covered pathways of the vegetable garden. Two long rows of mounded up earth hide early season Lisetta potato tubers....
A citrus grove: mandarins, lemons, limes, grapefruit, oranges; revelling in sub-tropical abundance as we ambled and ate our way through a tiny slice of paradise; our two young children gorging themselves on mandarins, sitting...
No matter who thinks it’s trendy to emblazon the saying, ‘Live life like someone left the gate open’, on T-shirts, wall hangings, mugs and various other merchandise, (I even came across a self-help book...
by Graham R. Cooper · Published August 7, 2023 · Last modified August 5, 2023
As you know, if you read to be a pilgrim, mid-to-late winter we head to the coast to fill seven or eight small sacks with seaweed. Our gathering place, the Patiti Point beach just...
I never did get around to it: a round tuit, that is. And I’m only now getting around to it: telling you whether I’ve been walking the talk, that is. My much-touted exercise programme...
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