Graham R. Cooper's personal journal about modern-day homesteading at Little Owl Gully.
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...
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...
Part One An outbuilding: June’s craft studio and the adjoining storage room (called ‘The Retreat’ in a previous life), turn their south-facing, walled-in backs, at a distance of some hundred metres, on our house;...
I’ve got my son Joseph to thank for the offal pit. With a shovel, a wheelbarrow, and a few hours help from a mate, he dug, over several days, a 2 metre deep by...
Recent Comments