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waiitiridge.bsky.social
Anna 👩🏼‍🌾
@waiitiridge.bsky.social
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tiny house - big garden 🏡 slow living offgrid 🍉 gardening 🌱 sewing 🧵 baking 🥖 solarpunk 🔆

Living as a hermit on a hill is nice, but community building is better 💚
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HOT TIP: when boycotting, try dupe recipes at home to share with friends. Sometimes there's no local alternative but there's always a recipe blog on the internet. Now i can have doublestuffed mint chocolate sandwich cookies without funding the capitalist machine crushing my American friends ☺️
A counter top with chocolate sandwich cookies shaped and stamped like the head of a sunflower. Some are filled with yellow cream and some are yet to be assembled. There are also a few peanutbutter with chocolate centers in the upper right corner.
April 18, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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🌱 some garden shots. Itching for autumn tbh but trying to enjoy the last bits of summer
A garden shot showing a cucumber and mixed greens in front of more stone garden beds and a tiny house Sun flower and berry canes in front of a tiny house lit up by sun light. Zinnia flowers in a peach colour with small yellow blooms around the centre Wet washing on the line with a rainbow above
February 19, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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🌱 Do you think she'll keep growing?
A hand reaching out and touching a large pumpkin still on the vine
January 30, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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🌱 summer snacks 🫐
I never got around to netting my blueberries this year. The birds have finally spared me a few big handfuls.
A hand full of blueberries over a small basket with more berries.
January 29, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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🌱Junimo wild pork dumplings with veggies from the garden and ginger tea 🍽 creating little pockets of joy to refill my cup while we take on 2025 together
#stardewvalley
A floral plate with 4 colourful Junimo dumplings. There is a floral tea cup with sliced ginger 🫚
January 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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🌱 I'm curious why my cosmos haven't been thriving the last couple years but my pumpkins and kale have been making up for it. I know it's only summer but I'm soooo ready for autumn and early winter so I can get started on improvements for next growing season. #gardening
Rainbow glass corn starting to fruit. A small pumpkin growing beneath the vines Lush Kale and marigolds absolutely thriving through the summer in a rock lined garden bed
January 3, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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Throwing a birthday party for my cat a birthday because absurdity is the only thing holding me together #catlady
A duck cake from womens weekly. It is a duck shaped cake with chips used to make the beak A small version of the duck cake made from cat food. A cheese ball shaped like a cat head on a candle stand surrounded by crackers and fruit
December 28, 2024 at 8:10 AM
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🌱 Tūī have been loving our Pōhutukawa and I got rain for Christmas. It feels strange this year, like the calm before a storm. Take care of yourselves, hug your neighbours, and build more connected, more resilient communities with me in 2025. Meri Kirihimete e te whānau 🎄
A tūī drinking from a Pōhutukawa flower. Sunny bread roll, a duckling, is walking in the garden in front of a tiny house. The sun is setting in the background A rainy morning in the garden. The grass is greening up below dead dry stocks. There are flowers in the background and a blooming Pōhutukawa tree. There is wet waching on the line
December 23, 2024 at 2:23 AM
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🌱 Our Pōhutukawa dressed up for summer Christmas and the solstice 🌞 I love how she does some of her own decorating with the beautiful red flowers. I hung some felt ornaments I made of some of my favourite native birds in between. Almost time to open Christmas gifts with breakfast in the garden 🌻🐝
A flowering Pōhutukawa tree with a flower garden in the background. There are felt bird ornaments hanging on her branches. A kiwi, a kākāpō, and a takahē.
December 17, 2024 at 4:25 AM
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🌱 Summer Garden ☀️ everything is growing, especially our duck, Sunny Bread Roll! While I water, she nibbles on the silverbeet and kale. I've laid a 10cm thick layer of grass clippings onto my beds to lock in moisture. I need to get some drip lines or soaker hoses in to minimise water loss. #solarpunk
A picture of various fruit trees in the back of a tunnel house. The tunnel house is built from old fence posts, recycled plastic, vinyard netting, polypiping, and zipties. There is a shelf full of seedlings to the left of the fruti trees A close up of tomatoes growing in.the tunnel house A small duck laying in the shade of some silverbeet. She is nibbling a leaf on the ground. There is a tunnel house in the background A top dowm view of kale plants in a rock-lined garden bed with my white gumboots visible. The duckling is reaching up to nibble some kale.
December 13, 2024 at 11:05 PM
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🌱 just a quick a dirty phone picture of my veggie patch 👩🏼‍🌾 it's been so dry but I've gotten my hands on some grass clippings so I've been watering my plants deeply then putting a thick layer of the grass ontop of the mulch. It should help reflect sunlight and lock in moisture 🤞so far so good!
December 7, 2024 at 5:24 PM
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🌱 thinking of turning my raised stone garden beds into wicking beds this winter. Anyone have any suggestions for what to line them with? Should I just mortar the stone? We are getting dryer Summers each year. I need to focus on water conservation and resilience before I have a desert 🏜 #diy
A stone garden bed with capsicum snd orange flowers growing inside. There is a willow fence behind and a garden shed to the left made of wooden pallets
December 2, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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🌻 Summer Christmas 🎄 I don’t see enough examples of summer Christmas decor that isn't just brighter coloured winter-centric stuff. Here is ny contribution: reusable felt Pohutukawa garland and dried summer grass garlands 🌾 we need to celebrate ours seasons, not consumption 🌱 #Christmas #solarpunk
Early summer flowers like foxglove, scabiosa, sweet pea, billy buttons, and dahlias arranged in a small vase. They are sitting in an open window with open kitchen shelves and a blackboard behind them A lady sweeping her small kitchen, looking down at a small ducklings inconveniently resting at her foot. The kitchen has wooden cabinets and a loft above it with potted plants and a garland made of dry grasses hanging on it. There is a small staircase with storage cabinets to the right of the kitchen and a railing made of branches with a stocking hanging off of it. A wider view of the open kitchen window. There are pot plants and duck themed kitchen items like measuring cups and a biscuit jar. There are felt Pohutukawa flowers steong across the top of the window. A closer view of the Pohutukawa garland and a hanging jar filled with a vanilla orchid
December 1, 2024 at 6:59 PM
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🌱 Progress is Progress looking like another dry summer which isn't ideal but we'll make do. I have plans to convert my raised rock beds to wicking beds with a liner this fall. The tomatoes are thriving in their bucket water retention system and our new family member Sunny Bread Roll has settled in.
A garden 4 years ago with grass and a few garden bed shapes lined with rocks. It looks barren and dry with exposed clay soils. Healthy happy tomato plants with small green fruit inside of a tunnel house A duckling eating the seed head in the grass and clover The same garden but a few years later with flowers, grass, and trees. There is still some exposed clay soils down the footpath but clear progress has been made
December 1, 2024 at 12:19 AM
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🌱 finger limes, a few tomatoes, curry trees, inga bean and white sapote. Plants are just so neat! I would have a botanical garden sized glass house collection if I could find enough materials. How tall do mangos get 🤔 #gardening
4 finger lime seedlingss in black pots ilon the shelf of a tunnel house Indeterminate tomatoes growing up string lines attached to the roof of the tunnel house. They are kept in pots inside large plastic trays to conserve water. A curry tree about to flower An inga bean sapling and a white sapote sapling. There are pots of determinate tomatoes and a large pot of lemon grass in the background
November 26, 2024 at 6:01 PM
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🌱 A very meager garlic harvest so far. I left most in the ground to go another year as they are so small I doubt they'll even flower. To be fair, most the garlic were from "seed"(bulbils) and not cloves so I need to cut them some slack. I made the basket from Jasmine vines #gardening #offgridliving
A Jasmine vine basket filled with peas, strawberries, and small heads of garlic. The basket is sitting on the edge of a stone garden bed with creeping thyme falling over the edges and blueberry bushes planted in the centre.
November 23, 2024 at 9:06 PM
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🌱 late spring in the garden 👩🏼‍🌾 I love this time of year because I still have some water so the garden looks so lush and healthy. I have 20 more tomatoes to pot up today and a spot to flatten for a glass house #gardening #offgrid
A garden with a tunnel house and rows of garden beds lined with rocks. There is a red wheelbarrow in one of the paths and several beds filled with corn, beans, lettuce, pumpkins, and various other vegetables. There are mountains in the distance An apron hanging on a washing line over a flower bed during a sunset. The grass and surrounding trees are lush and green. A top view of a garden bed filled with kale, borage fand marigolds. The bed is lined with rocks Raspberry canes loaded with unripe fruit and a garden bed made of stones in the background.
November 22, 2024 at 7:07 PM
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🌱 willow fencing, functional, fashionable, and free! Our ridge is very windy so I needed to establish some windbreaks for my garden. I got some willow cuttings from the river and have been weaving them into a lattice fence. I think this will be the year I get to weave the top edge! #gardening #diy
A woman weaving willow branches into a lattice fence. She is sitting in the garden between garden beds made of stacked stones A close up of woven willow fencing during the winter. The bare branches are woven in a lattice pattern Willow fencing in spring civered in new branches and leaves. There is a strawberry patch in front
November 21, 2024 at 7:00 PM
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🌱 my tunnel house made from 2nd hand plastic I got from the side of the road, old vineyard netting, old fence posts, and polypiping we found in the forest. She's an upcycling masterpiece ✨️ I am a little gardening garbage gremlin 👩🏼‍🌾 #gardening #diy #solarpunk
A woman inside a greenhouse sorting seedlings. There are potted plants lining the walls and a rack down the centre filled with seedlings. A rack filled with small seedlings. The rack is made of metal and has 3 layers The outside view of the greenhouse. It is shaped like a tunnel with no front door and covered in a white bird netting over plastic
November 21, 2024 at 1:38 AM
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My cat Miss Marbles is turning 2 soon and I need to start planning her party. I was thinking of going with a bird theme this year 🤔 what do you think butterflies? 🐱 🧶 #caturday #catsofbluesky
A cat wearing a birthday hat and eating catfood off of her humans finger. The cat food is sitting in a silver dish on a floral table cloth. The cat is black A cat wearing a birthday hat and eating catfood. The cat food is sitting in a silver dish on a floral table cloth. The cat is black A birthday cake made of cat food with cat treats in the shape of the number one. The cake is in a silver dish A cat themed birthday party display. There is a bunting made of black cat heads strung a cross a window, cat shaped cake, cat shaped sandwiches, and a salad all sat on a floral table cloth
November 18, 2024 at 10:13 PM
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Cabbage, radish flowers, favabeans, and white clover. I've started making spots for the summer veggies to go in as the spring crop finishes up 🌱
November 18, 2024 at 4:53 AM
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After a long day of gardening, I like to lay down in my garden themed bed 👩🏼‍🌾 i made these wee sunflower pillows out of scraps i got at the dump and buttons I made from clay to look like sunflower seeds. 🌻 #sewing #diy #gardening #upcycling
A seeing machine with yellow fabric scraps ready to sew. A pillow shaped like a sunflower sitting on a bed. The sunflower is made from the same fabric scraps A close up of a button that looks like a sunflower seed
November 17, 2024 at 11:04 PM
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🌱 dry garden flowers and my garden slug control battalion 🦆okay bluesky, give me all your water conservation and irrigation tips! We're offgrid and rely on rainwater but with the summers getting drier, I want to make more garden more resilient.
November 17, 2024 at 2:21 AM
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🌱 just some snaps of ny garden 👩🏼‍🌾 I've added a whole new veggie patch since last summer so I can't wait to share once it's in full bloom.
Garden beds made of stone and potted garlic in between. There is a woven willow fence behind which gives you a glimpse of the foggy valley below A sunrise over a garden with the light reflecting off of a tunnel house and garden shed A garden shed potting bench with pots stacked below and tools hanging on the wall above. There is a small pink window and the leaves of a nectarine tree in frame Tulips and a mulberry tree in early spring. There are seedlings in a tray waiting to be planted
November 16, 2024 at 5:54 PM
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I want to connect with more people living off-grid but in a "sustainability, community, and solarpunk" kind of way not the "prepping for me-and-mine! Technology and women in pants are sins" way. We live in our wee diy hill top home full of 2nd hand and home-made treasures
The inside of a tinyhouse with many wood features and vines growing up the walls. There is a little girl with her back facing the camera wearing a crown and playing with a toy whole sitting on a moss rug.
November 15, 2024 at 9:50 AM