The sourdough starter technique I'm about to describe here is one that I have been making for a few years now - I can't remember where the initial recipe came from but I have certainly tweaked it a bit over time anyway. The sourdough starter is simply a mixture of flour and water. Wild yeast […]
The Vegetable garden is in a transition phase at the moment. Because we have had quite a mild autumn a lot of my summer vegies are still producing, but yet I am trying to make room to get some winter vegies started. Summer vegetables still hanging on are tomatoes, capsicums, pumpkins, zucchini and chillis. I've […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]