I have been thinking about that title for a month or so. My amaranth is flourishing but am I? It has been going through my head endlessly. Is this what I was aiming for with my life? But then the garden

For the whole of South Africa, except the area in which I live, summer had arrived. But only in the last two days, have summer really reached my area. We are in the middle of the summer heat now. Just

More than a year ago, 500 days to be precise, I built a raised bed from scrap materials. In the last couple of months, I "upgraded" this system by making it slightly bigger. It is by no means

After another week, the garden is blooming once again. From flowers to fruits, cuttings and seedlings, everything is growing at a tremendous pace, in this week's garden journal, I muse about the flowers

if there is one constant in the garden, it must be death that is turned into life The garden is always full of death (think composts) and life (think fruits hanging ripe for the picking from the branches).

I am getting ever closer to living the life of my dreams - the garden and my future home are becoming more and more resonant and I can see it in the change of my surroundings! It is as if my surroundings

The wind has a mysterious component to it; we can only hear its effects, we can only see its destruction; we can only feel its touch; but we can never see the wind itself. Our plane landed in some of the

Death breathes new life into what does not yet exist. At then end of 2023, I posted a HiveGarden update in which I literally cleared the garden at my girlfriend's place. Her father gave me some space to

summer leafy greens; parmesan; lemon zest; burnt onion; olive oil The summer is ending and the winter is approaching. We are in autumn, the liminal space between the seasons. The amaranth in my garden

It seems that I am not running out of basil. How strange this place where we have an abundance, not knowing what to do with it all. One can only eat so much basil pesto before your body rejects it. One

The garden waits for no one. If you sow the seeds, and if the ground is fertile, and if there is enough water, and if the sun shines, then the plants will grow and wait for no one. This was evident when

There is a strange satisfaction about planting new and baby plants that you nurtured to life. It feels like magic, as if you are playing god, as if you are creating from nothing, creatio ex nihilo, creating

It has been two or three weeks since I sowed some seeds into the three flower pots I will be using to grow some herbs in. Since then, I have again been running around, going on an ad hoc road trip, and

| baby sun roses (Mesembryanthemum cordifolium) | It feels like I am infinitely returning to my old garden. I have poured my soul into my garden for seven or so years, but with recent changes in my life,

amaranth seed crusted chicken popcorn and lemon zest Yesterday I separated the chaff from the amaranth seeds which I grew on a small piece of ground in the corner of my girlfriend's dad's property. It

| amaranth chaff | After almost two weeks, I only had the opportunity to process my amaranth seeds now. The weather was perfect, except maybe a bit windy. But it was not too warm, not too cold. I had some

One of the most important tricks that I have learned in the garden is collecting seeds. Since collecting my own seeds, I have never relied on what I can get in the shop, nor have I spent any money buying

It is incredible how only after about 80 days, close to three months, these amaranthus plants of mine went from small seeds, to seedlings, to full-grown plants, and today, being harvested. In such a short

Every day I walk outside to the garden. Between writing copious amounts of what I want to think is somehow productive work, I walk to the garden to see how things are going. For lunch and dinner, I pick