I had a great harvest today. I always love the winter bounty, partly, I think, because it’s a bit unexpected. You always expect to be picking plenty during summer and autumn, but there is something special about picking in winter! Jazz is holding a massive cauliflower- and there are many more like it still to […]
Soooo chilly here this morning. I wasn’t up at 6am, so I don’t know how cold it was then, but at 7am it was still -2.6oC! Apparently there was over 10 hours of sub zero temperatures during the night! Being a temperate climate we don’t get too many extended frosts like this. Often there may […]
We are expanding our herd! We purchased 7 new heifers from a neighbour and here they are arriving. Four pure Herefords, and three Hereford Angus cross. Whenever we get new stock we always quarentine them for 48 hours in a small area, with hay and water. They were very happy to be let out. They […]
We have our first orphan lamb. We are not sure why she was orphaned, just found her along in a corner of the paddock where there were no other sheep around. We left her there for a few hours but no one came to claim her, and it was starting to get dark. I […]
We have had a set of 4 lambs born to the one ewe! This is so rare, certainly the first time for us! She was right near the gate to our sheep yards, with no other ewes close by – so I’m sure they are all hers. She is happily letting them all drink too, […]
As I mentioned a couple of posts ago, we had the perfect summer for growing produce. Plenty of warm days interspersed with the odd rainy day, which has had both the vegie garden and the orchard doing very well. I hate wastage and so have tried to preserve as much of the fruit and vegies […]
I loooove this time of the year. There is something special about having new babies on the ground, the renewal of life and all that…… June 1st is officially our starting date for lambing, so tomorrow, in theory. But every year we get a couple of early lambs, which I guess is no different in […]
We have been very lucky this autumn so far, to have not had any frosts! As a result quite a few of our summer veggies are still producing quite well. The tomatoes have finished up, as it has been quite cold, but the chillies and capsicums are still going well. I also grew jalapeño chillies […]
Well its been a while between posts – and who knows, I may get better at posting, I really want to…. We’ll see. Here’s a summary of where the farm is at, at the moment….. The Farm We have had fantastic rains over the last 6 months – a very healthy spring, probably the best […]
We put the Rams out with the ewes on New Years Day, every year (occasionally the next day, depending on the night before!!). This has them ready for lambing on June 1st. For the last couple of months the nutrition of the ewes is crucial to the success of lambing. Ideally the ewes that are […]