My Life On The Planet Earth

In 2017 I organised a 'Mexican Appreciation Day'. It was a fun day shared with friends here in Patagonia and around the world. My friend...

Ayer hice un video mostrando mis botas viejas convertidas en macetas. Hubo muchos comentarios que mencionaron la película 'Wall-e!' Nos...

Yesterday I made a video showing my old boots turned into flower pots. Many comments mentioned the movie 'Wall-e!' We wondered why? Then...

Google Earth took a new satellite photo of our land earlier this year. Fortunately I have a previous one from 2014. Los mapas de Google...

We've joined Tiktok and are sharing our life at Paul and Konomi's Garden, our piece of paradise in Chilean Patagonia. If you're new to...

I've been filming life on our land for the last eleven years and now, like everyone else due to the pandemic we have a little time on our...

Ten years ago we dug the foundation of our house. Then we put all the soil into bags and built it. Hace diez años cavamos los cimientos...

In 2010 the 7600 sq meter land (2acre) piece of land that we had recently bought was nothing more than a badly eroded pasture, chewed to...

This video was filmed over the course of 21 days and shows the initial stages of the construction of our home. To see how things have...

Español abajo: Eight years apart and a world of difference. When we brought our land I said to Konomi, that we could only make it better....

Español abajo: Our land has changed a lot since 2011, when we began planting the first of 1200 native trees. Both photo's were taken from...

We began building our home in 2010. In 2011 we moved in. The house is not large, 4.6 meters x 3.6 meters, but we have a big front window...

English below: Paul y Konomi darán un taller de vinagre y fermentación en De La Raiz Cocina Vegana en Puerto Cisnes, el sábado 16. Los...

Thanks to our journalist friend Dinelly Soto, the Austral Garden Route, which we established last year with some close friends, is...

I am in the process of renovating the house and will be redoing the turf wall at the front, some time in the summer, but for now it all...

I read the Guardian almost daily and think it is one of the best newspapers in the world, so to be in it, is a great pleasure. This week...

I have been able to make a reasonably accurate, yet ultimately conservative calculation of the amount of trees the 20,000 - 30,000...

When I was a child I loved visiting Manchester Zoo with my mum and dad. The highlight for me was riding on an Elephant. I think I would...

Now we are accepting visitors to our land through our Austral Garden Route tours and workshops it's useful for people to have an idea of...

I've been busy the past few weeks creating a new route for tourists visiting Chilean Patagonia and traveling along the Carretera Austral...