Nibbled Earth

10/10/2026

Another workplace - community garden # 3. 💪🏽 🫣

Building my empire, one Bramley apple sapling at a time.

Blossoming fruit trees, polytunnels, a real office somewhere inside, raised beds, good wheelbarrows, private allotments, annnd... chickens!

Linwood Resource Centre Community Gardens in Ōtautahi - Christchurch.

Here mai ki te māra.

Happy Spring growing, whānau!

18/09/2026

Coz... Kea.

Best lunchtime eva.

Spent at the end of a cruisy valley in a bowl of craggy snow, chattering with kea and watching them 'enquire' about various objects.
Some attached to us, some not.

Thank you for your antics, beautiful taonga creatures.

Still got my beanie 💪🏽 🐦

Lunch with manu and a manu Taki.

02/09/2026

When you take your adventures up a notch from sunny and dry bush camping in QLD, Australia...

To mini blizzards, a snow cave, shovelling snow to keep warm, and melting snow for hot water bottles and dinner ❄️🌨

Not much sleep, but much adrenalin and many skills learnt.

✅️Comfort zone definitely expanded 💪🏽

My first camp in the snow. All under the care of the wonderful Bia Boucinhas and with the Mountain Journeys crew behind the scenes.

(Yes, we did camp in a tent as a cornice was building up over the entrance of the cave. Hello, midnight bed chnage).

Thanks for an awesome weekend beautiful maunga.
I've almost recovered from the flu now.

Where to next???...

26/07/2026

21/05/2026

Carpentry gone wrong?

Or medicine for the tree?

🍃
Helping our trees become more resilient
🌳

Inoculating this beautiful peachcot tree with trichoderma spp. fungi to boost it's defences.
(The spores are in that wee green dowel)

Here, I'm combating silverleaf and gummosis in some inherited old fruit trees.

This is the second round of yearly inoculation, alongside some probiotic spraying and also improving the soil beneath with various plant species and manure.

Things are definitely on the upward trend 💪🏽

Our soil is crappy, compacted fill that was covered in plastic and woochip and probably nuked with pesticides (aka nothing was growing except the trees).

So, whilst we can do bandaid solutions to treat above ground symptoms, I would say much of the cause lies below and in the overall health of the tree.

Hence the use of clovers, daikon, lupin, parsley, vetch, oats, etc., to try bring some life and air back into a butchered piece of the ecosystem.

Grow you good things, grow!
🌞 🌳 🏡

15/03/2026

🍇🦶👣🍷
So many grapes...
A little bit of time
Not wanting w**e
Just bottles of homegrown, organic goodness.

(Also, no music - coz there are some epic squishy noises 😆)
🍇🦶👣🍷

15/02/2026

Garden wanderings... keep goin' summer, you can do it!

04/02/2026

Just in case you love hanging out with kakaruai / toutouwai / south Island robins as much as I do...

🐦‍⬛ ⛰️ 🏔 🌳



https://southernlakessanctuary.org.nz/kakaruai-south-island-robin/:~:text=Curious%2C%20bold%20and%20often%20just,bush%20is%20on%20the%20mend.