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18/11/2012

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If you're visiting Muntanui for the first time because of the feature in last weekend's Nelson Mail (or this weekend's edition of The Christchurch Press), hello and welcome! We hope you'll stop by often.  If you're a regular, hello and welcome to you too. Farmer Wan and I, thanks to the afore-mentioned feature, are currently enjoying 15 seconds of fame. Feel free to follow the link, read the story, be mightily inspired and then send us money or something.

We've been beavering away on two major projects over the last few weeks: 
  1. kitting out the Polytunnel of Love so that we can actually grow stuff in there
  2. designing and planting out the knot garden and small bank behind the house

Because both involve raised beds and there was no way we could fill them with the compost we're making ourselves, we forked out for 12 cubic metres of the yummy, black stuff. So far, I've loaded about a quarter of it into wheelbarrows and trundled it around the place. This is a very satisfying process, physically speaking. Sandflies now require oxygen when scaling my biceps.

Each project will get its own post, with lots of pics, in the near future. In the meantime, here's a sampling of images to show why we love Muntanui in the springtime.
Coming soon: Compost: the agony and the ecstasy. No, just make that the agony.

Posted by Farmer Nik
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Sarah
21/11/2012 01:53:46 pm

Hi...just followed this link from the SWC FB page. I'm a ChCh old-girl living in Sydney (10 years last week).... so of course I had to take a look at your blog. Me and my husband have a mad dream of becoming fig farmers in Central Otago one day. I'll add you to my blog reader. xx

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Farmer Nik
22/11/2012 01:13:50 am

Hi Sarah. I think I know who you are, from the SWC forum -- did you do the Mindfood piece on CHCH earthquake survivors earlier this year? (It was beautifully written.)

Thanks for dropping by and good luck in fulfilling the dream. Central Otago needs a fig farm! All the best x.

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millsy
5/1/2013 05:22:08 am

lovely article in the paper Nik!! well deserved. hope summer weather has been kinder than spring, stinking hot and humid over this way.... planning my dry season vegie patch! xo

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Farmer Nik
4/2/2013 11:29:16 am

Thanks, Millsy. We were lucky that the piece was so sympathetic -- Naomi did a lovely job.

We're having a lovely summer -- temps in the early to mid 30s all last week, with a wee bit of rain today to keep the pasture growing. I've been wondering how it's all being going over your way. No major cyclones, I see -- a mixed blessing for the Pilbara, I know.

Your dry season vegie patch is my summer patch. Good luck with it all and thanks for staying in touch. xx

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    Scottish mechanical engineer with a deep and abiding passion for good food. Outstanding cook. Builder of lots of stuff. Cattle whisperer. Connoisseur of beer. A lover rather than a fighter.

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    Kiwi writer and broadcaster who hates cabbage, even though she knows it's good for her. Chook wrangler. Grower of food and flowers. Maker of fine preserves. Lover of dancing and wine. Definitely a fighter.

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