March 2011 Blog Posts (13)

A really interesting New York Times article by Isolde Raftery about an emerging group of Americans in their 20s and 30s who have chosen farming as a career. Many shun industrial, mechanized farming and list punk rock, Karl Marx and the food journalist …

Thought I'd share this article.

I've always been impressed by the example of gardeners like Prof Walker, digging in their gardens well into their later years.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2011/03/gardening-health-older-adults/1?loc=interstitialskip

Really interesting article from the Carrol Gardens Patch blog about Chris Grace. She says “[My job] is really a food systems planning role. I work to connect food resources – primarily upstate farmers – with people in the city who need those resources – individuals, schools, processors.” 

Link to the full story here…

The Ooooby Box is currently located on Surrey Crescent in Grey Lynn.

We have a short term lease agreement in order to keep costs down and flexibility up.

The landlord has suggested that he may have a more permanent tenant interested…

Have you noticed lately that food prices have rapidly increased? In the last 3 years we have seen a 14% price rise on food while general inflation has only risen by 8.9%.*



That means that food prices have inflated more than 57% above wage inflation, or in other words, 1.57 times…

This is my first blog ever so I am sorry if it is little bit boring. I am mostly posting it to try and find a house to rent and a flatmate or an established house with two bedrooms that we can rent for around $200.

My partner and I have the same dream as many of you we want to own land one day and live off it. Currently we are looking for a house with a little land to stay in long-term while we save towards this goal.

If anyone out there knows of a semi-rural house for rent in…

Last year we tried our first Kumeras and had a pretty solid failure, reasonable tops but manky little tubers. We decided that we would shift to the other - sunnier - end of the section this year and, reading that they preferred heat we put them into a tyre to build up the temperature. By late December they looked like this.…

EcoDay this Sunday and Ooooby will be there... http://www.ecoday.org.nz

Don't forget to come and say hello to us at Stall 58! I will be promoting and hopefully selling lots of subscriptions for our fabulous Oooooby Box, with Pania next to me for Dirt Doctor.

We're also there to answer questions about being a grower for Ooooby, looking for Promotion Volunteers for the Ooooby Box and recruiting for the job…

Decided to make something out of my site http://www.rigotech.net

and post up all my latest projects.

Check out what I am doing on my 4000sqft back yard

from start to finish making something out of nothing…