How my kitchen garden delights! #whistlingfrog #Barbados #bokchoy #Eleutherodactylus #kitchengarden

Don’t obliterate. Pick and relocate: See more posts about my plant life here. (What’s in your night garden?) #Barbados #gettingridofslugs...

The last time I used a crocus bag to cover fruits, when I looked in after a few weeks, a FAMILY OF RATS peeped up at me, grateful for the...

Although I’ve been more interested in food plants, because I manage a property, through trial and error, I’ve chosen these as my top ten...

Ever since I saw this guy handling a giant centipede, I’ve started imagining centipedes in a different light. I’m not going to handle...

Remember the plantain plant I put in the ground in May last year? Well…she’s giving birth: I’ve got one eye on the plantains and the...

I have a good early morning routine in the garden. Birth of a mango tree. My favourite bull – looks like a beast, but he’s a Barney. Rats...

With so much attention on the new C-word, it suggests denial to focus on what continues to be everyday, but this is an overdue update so...

*I’ve used the term “pest” because there’s no concise way to say, “animals I’d rather not have in my garden” (considering the right...

Sorry I missed last Friday. I’ve been busy working on short stories for publication with my editor. They don’t yet include House on the...

At the mention that I am growing plants, the response will usually be, “Good for you! I don’t have a green thumb.” It’s a cop out! One of...

Prelude So common-place this had become—standing up on a bus to speak to commuters—it had lost that triumphant feeling. I’d become too...

Ran out of scheduled posts, so here’s a recap of how I got here and where I’d like to go: Past Dairy A few months after starting my first...

Going through the LPs that had always been there, but on the margins of curiosity, I tried out different songs on my ears and would get...

What it is: armies of rice grasses filing up, down and sideways, lay floating reflections – thriving where others drown, marching where...

The organic farmers of Barbados can be found here. They’re a part of the Organic Growers and Consumers Association of Barbados (OGCA)....