Harvest, Harvest, Harvest - that seems to be the theme for February, in the vegetable patch. From zucchinis to corn, beans to greens - it seems like everything starts coming in ready for picking in February. Harvest and Watering! Our corn is nearly all picked by the end of February. I planted it in […]
Raising your own lambs for meat can be a very fulfilling enterprise. Not only do you get the fun part of managing your livestock and watching the lambs grow, but home produced meat is a lot cheaper (and I believe TASTIER!!) than what you buy in the supermarket. There is a lot to consider, however […]
With Christmas and the New Year it usually takes me a couple of weeks to get back into things again, and this year has been no different. We had a busy few weeks with family visiting which was fantastic to catch up with everyone - but it means that the garden and farm gets a […]
Our beautiful housecow Marmalade has had her calf! It was so exciting. She was born on the last day of school before the school holidays, and unfortunately we were all at school for a performance so missed the actual birth. She was obviously born with no difficulties as she was just standing for the first […]
Our house cow, Marmalade, is due to have her first calf in a couple of weeks. Because we want to milk her we need to be able to lead her into the milking shed. She was hand raised on a bottle so she is fairly quiet, but for the last few months she has been […]
Pruning our boysenberry bushes is not a fun job! They’re prickly and always overgrown with weeds growing all up through them. I always front up to the job with my long gloves. Boysenberries grow on second year growth, so the idea is to cut off all the canes that fruited last year, leaving the new […]
We have 22 fruit trees in our orchard. And they are all espaliered onto wires. The main reason we did this is so that the fruit is easy to access, and we can control how tall the trees get. It is also a great way to ensure lots of light gets into the tree, as […]
One of the biggest jobs on the farm each year, is lamb marking. There are three main jobs involved – vaccination, ear marking and castration. First we bring a mob ( this year we have the whole flock split into four mobs) into the yards and draft the ewes off. This leaves us with a […]
Last night as I was about to jump in the shower I heard an awe full noise coming from our stable area. It sounded like Ella our pet lamb was being attacked. My first thought was fox! I panicked and ran out to see what was happening. Ella came running over to me when I […]