I'm Sandra and I live on the wet West Coast of the South Island, NZ with my husband and two small children. I'm enthusiastically trying out Linda Woodrow's permaculture home garden ideas and aiming to grow most of our veges and eventually fruits as well. I'm now entering year two of our project and have collected various hand me down materials to build a chicken coop as chooks is my next project.
Rainfall is high where we live and the standard NZ gardening books often don't apply.
In the kitchen I try and make foods from scratch. I'm not consistently 'good' though and continue to be grateful for the existence of cans of baked beans so I can potter in the garden and forget about dinner and still not get visited by social welfare.
Look forward to getting to know people here. We lived in the UK 2001-2005 and loved our time there.
hello from New Zealand
hello from New Zealand
Sandra
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red
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hi and welcome
yes high rainfall might mean you would be better off with British gardening books
yes high rainfall might mean you would be better off with British gardening books
Red
I like like minded people... a bit like minded anyway.. well people with bits of their minds that are like the bits of my mind that I like...
my website: colour it green
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I like like minded people... a bit like minded anyway.. well people with bits of their minds that are like the bits of my mind that I like...
my website: colour it green
etsy shop
blog
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Ahoy! 
Thurston Garden.
http://www.thurstongarden.wordpress.com
Greenbelt is a Tory Policy and the Labour Party intends to build on it. (John Prescott)
http://www.thurstongarden.wordpress.com
Greenbelt is a Tory Policy and the Labour Party intends to build on it. (John Prescott)
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MsWildFlower
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Thank you for all of your kind welcomes.
Mrmushypeas, 'TNN' is an abbreviation of 'The Nappy Network', a NZ website and forum devoted to supporting the use of cloth nappies for babies. Lots of parents on there also have strong interests in self-sufficiency. MsWildflower, what is your TNN name?
Another NZ website called www.lifestyleblock.co.nz recently had mention of the selfsufficientish website and forum which may be why you have an outbreak of kiwis joining up!
By the way, I really like the name 'selfsufficientish'.
Mrmushypeas, 'TNN' is an abbreviation of 'The Nappy Network', a NZ website and forum devoted to supporting the use of cloth nappies for babies. Lots of parents on there also have strong interests in self-sufficiency. MsWildflower, what is your TNN name?
Another NZ website called www.lifestyleblock.co.nz recently had mention of the selfsufficientish website and forum which may be why you have an outbreak of kiwis joining up!
By the way, I really like the name 'selfsufficientish'.
Sandra
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