Christine Dann

 The blue lupin green manure crop just before I pulled it out – almost too pretty to pull. The pile of twitch covered with weedmat for a year turned into good soil plus dry roots. Around this time last year…

 ‘Kate Sheppard’ camellias in a vase of ‘September Snow’ rhododendron flowers Today is Women’s Suffrage Day. It’s 118 years since New Zealand women won the right to vote in national elections – the first women in the world to gain…

Banks Peninsula Walnut Cake with birthday candle This blog was one year old yesterday, so I baked it a cake – which just happens to be one of the favourites of the Eco Forester. Its main ingredient is walnuts which…

Wilby looks across the Tank Farm towards Diamond Harbour on  February 18, 2011. It’s still too dangerous to be on that hill now. I visit my Border Terrier friend Wilby in Lyttelton as often as I can, and we take…

with Sourdough Flatbread Sourdough Flatbread, a jar of home-bottled tomato puree, and Tomato Paneer Curry Bottled tomato puree has many uses, and goes with every cuisine from Italy to India, and most parts of the Americas. Paneer is a uniquely…