October 2014 was my last post! I’ve thought about writing so many times, but it has always been a question of where to start!! But I figure if I don’t start, I never will so this post will just be a “where are we now” post!! The Farm 2015 was a very dry year for […]
We have seven calves on the ground so far. The first one was a fortnight ago. Most of the cows have had at least one calf previously,so we expected it to go fairly smoothly. But surprise, surprise, the very first calf had us a bit worried. I had been watching the cow all morning and […]
When we planned our orchards, we planned on having one side of our farm driveway as an area for stone fruit, and also apples, pears, and figs. The other side was to be for grape vines and citrus. Well the first side has been in for about 5 years now, and is growing nicely. On […]
We have added to the menagerie – with a beautiful little black Shetland pony called Marley. We had been looking for a few months, and actually saw her advertised on Facebook. They were offering a trial period so I felt we couldn’t really lose out. And as soon as we saw her everyone fell in […]
We have wanted to plant about fifty native trees down this slope for a while now. We did plant some a couple of years ago, but it was at the end of spring and then we had a very dry summer and only about a dozen survived. So Jasmine and I headed out one day […]
Last weekend we managed to get Cam off the farm, and Archie away from footy for a long weekend at Wye River. Wye River is down south on the Victorian coastline, not far from Lorne. Originally we were going to camp, but as we had been having so much cold, windy weather we ended up […]
I mentioned in the last post that we are up to five orphan lambs now, which makes it very tricky for one person to feed them. A few years ago we invested in a milk feeder that will feed 5 at a time, and we’ve used it nearly every year since. One year we actually […]
So we have five orphaned lambs now! The original one, Mischeifa, is going great. He’s grown lots, and is really fit and healthy. The second two lambs we got were named Bobby, and Boris. They were both found off by themselves on different days, and quite weak. Not sure why – we have had a […]
We had another lovely day yesterday (today is exceptionally cold, rainy and windy!! Great winter weather), so I couldn’t resist grabbing my camera as I headed out to check the lambing ewes. Look away now if you don’t like gory/ unfortunate photos. This little lamb has had its tail bitten off by a fox. […]