Aloe Vera is a succulent-type plant that grows really well both indoors and outside. I am growing it in both spots quite successfully. For centuries it’s been praised for its medicinal properties, and these days it can be found commercially in lots of different forms. GROWING ALOE VERA Soil and Water When growing aloe vera in a […]
About a year ago now, my husband came up with the fantastic idea to get our kids to cook every Sunday night. My initial thoughts were "bloody fantastic idea" - and lets be honest, I was purely thinking of it from my own point of view "Yes!!! - one night a week when I don't […]
A month or so ago, I did a post on raising your own lamb for meat production. We have since had our butcher out and had a couple big days of creating and preserving our meat! WARNING - if you don't like the gory details and pics, don't read on! Most people who raise meat […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]