Growing Cocoa Beans in Thailand
I’ve been experimenting with growing a wide variety of fruits for the past few years. I first started in containers while living on Koh Chang island and progressed to planting…
Raised Garden Beds – The First 6 Months
Raised Garden Beds [6 Months Update] In this vlog we catch up on the progress of the 3 raised garden beds we built back in May 2017. They have produced…
Tambun Baan – Bless this House
Last Sunday we were joined by our neighbours, friends, family and five monks (always an odd number) from the local temple, Wat Lamphurai for Tambun Baan. Tambun Baan is a…
Pond Life
Landscaping a wildlife pond at the front of our property near the public road is the last part of our development… probably! We have observed the land over the course…
Self Sufficiency in Thailand
Living in Thailand and being self-sufficient go hand in hand. In many ways it’s part of the culture here. While the rest of the world has been introducing draconian laws…
The OutLaws are Moving In
We’ve been building a one-bedroom Thai house for our Thai parents over the last 2 or three months and this week, they moved in. After their retirement they moved from…
Watching the Wildlife – Beneficial Garden Animals
One of the joys of taking a piece of barren land and planting out gardens and a food forest is attracting wildlife and beneficial garden animals. Wild Bees – A…
Planting Our Food Forest
Growing a food forest is a long term project, but you have to start somewhere, sometime, to reap what you sow for many years to come. We earmarked approximately 70%…
Our Shipping Container Home
Welcome to our shipping container home. Kick your flip-flops off, beware of the dog and come on in! It started with a dream! We followed through with modeling a concept…
Thinglish Strawberry Tower
Strawberry Tower Powered with Vermiculture What could be more Thinglish than eating strawberries and cream beneath the Christmas tree than well… growing your own fruit in a strawberry tower in…
