Well I think everyone around here has pretty much finished their sowing, which I’m sure is a nice feeling for us all. I’ve been travelling around the district over the last week or so, collecting some photos of the sowing operations going on. Here’s a sample of some of my favourites…
All our crops and pasture is sown. It’s a good feeling to have it all in the ground. Now we just need lots of rain to germinate the seed, and then keep it growing. By all accounts we are in for another el niño so it could be a dry year. Here’s our tractor and […]
Last weekend we finished sowing our lupins. Lupins are a legume and are a large round seed, as you can see below. They originated from the Mediterranean region and are quite high in both protein and energy so make a good stock feed, and in some countries are quite popular as a snack for humans. […]
Its mushroom time!! Besides our middle son – Danny, the rest of us LOVE mushrooms. And we particularly love this time of the year when they are growing wild in the paddocks and we can pick them. This was yesterday’s collection, just from the paddock around the house where Pickles our dairy cow spends some […]
Unfortunatly we had a massive cloud bank block the early stages of the Lunar Eclipse. We had set our alarm for 6pm (that was when the moon was supposed to rise for us here in Western Victoria) so we wouldn’t miss it. The kids and I traipsed up the hill, with the binoculars and the […]
It sounds idealic – eating fresh food you’ve produced yourself, looking over green paddocks, setting your own time table, maybe even slowing down your lifestyle a bit….. And it certainly can be like this, but there are times when things fall in a heap, and you wonder if all the hard work is worth it. […]
The view from my office window this morning! Gorgeous girls! Inquisitive ferrets Cousins Germinated seedlings Happy Thursday!
Our last lot of chickens have hatched, so we have six more little babies! Very exciting! Cam is wondering where all the chook feed is going to come from! And stating loudly that we better start getting a decent supply of eggs soon! I haven’t the heart to tell him that there is also a […]