Purslane Wonder Weed
I had noticed this plant growing near the olive trees. It didn’t look like a noxious weed, so […]
Brad Weeding
While I am in the UK for 10 days, Brad is on farm and guest post duty to […]
Mayweed Sunray
Like the Capeweed, the Mayweed Sunray (Hyalosperma cotula) is a member of the Asteracea family with its multiple […]
Here Comes the Capeweed
After only 8.5mm of rain a week ago, the Capeweed has started sprouting. This is our most […]
Shovelling sh!t
On a farm you spend a lot of time moving manure from one place to another and today […]
We’ve got Sheep!
A local breeder delivered our 12 ewes and a ram at lunchtime today. Fourteen months after seeing […]
Whispering Sheoak
Wind moving through the Sheoak (Allocasuarina) makes a wonderful, whooshing, whispering sound. There have been quite strong southerly […]
New Oat Paddock Prepped
We borrowed a 4m length of railway track from our neighbour to flatten the new oat paddock before […]
First Rain of 2014
It started to rain just after 1pm and we ended up with 8.2mm when it stopped in the […]
Season Break
There was some misty rain over the creek line this morning, but no moisture hit the ground here […]
Afghan Melons
I spent a couple of days picking the afghan melons from the new oat paddock. They are actually […]
Year End 2013
I took a bit of a walk round the property to check on our progress over the last […]
Fire Break Day 2
Yesterday I graded the west and north firebreaks on the boundary, this morning I did the east and […]
Fire Break Day 1
I dragged the landscape rake round half the boundary this morning. The fire breaks have to be in […]
Free Again
The horses got out again for the first time in 6 weeks. They went for a run […]
Rosy Radishes
The garden bed I had planted all my seeds in at the end of August was overrun with […]
Drying Off
The past week of record temperatures has dried off most of the property except for two patches of […]
Let us in
The horses have been locked out of the big paddock for over 5 months since we sprayed the […]
Stacked
One of the good things about big round bales is that they are very quick to stack. We […]
Rainbow Rosella
I arrived back home to capture my first image of a couple of Western Rosella parrots. I have […]
Slashing the Plantation
Slashing helps keep the weeds down, reduces the fuel load – and fire risk – and makes the […]
Widening the Fire Breaks
Brad ran round the boundary with the slasher to widen the fire breaks. They will need to be […]
Fake Freesias
We have quite a large patch of what I thought were freesias near the gate on the west […]
Reprieve
There was a lull in the storm and I made the most of the sunshine and weeded another […]
Springing Back to Life
I had no idea how flat I had become after a long cold and wet winter. We have […]
Bronze Beauty
I managed to capture the bronze metallic sheen on this hover fly as it collected pollen from the […]
A Guilty Pleasure
These bright “mini sunflowers” are the prolific capeweed (Arctotheca calendula), so I did feel guilty admiring them. Like the […]
Turning over the Compost
Brad turned over the compost bins with the bucket on the tractor so we have a whole pile of […]
Lovely Lupins
The hairs on the lupin leaves hold rain drops really well and they often roll into the centre to […]
I felt it move
I felt a kid move inside Midge today for the first time. I have been massaging her lower […]
Bad Pink Flowers
I feel guilty admiring the beauty in these pink flowers as they are the flower of one of […]
Cultivating Chooks
The chickens helped me prepare the vege beds for the next round of planting. We have fenced off […]
Neighbour
I spotted movement in the bottom paddock and realised my neighbour had arrived and had already started turning […]
Rock Fishing
I finished slashing the weeds in the new oat paddock today and did a final check for any big […]
Thinking Ahead
Next year we are moving the oats down to the fertile valley floor on the northeast of the […]
Writing and Photography
I don’t want to be a writer, but I do want to tell the story of this beautiful […]
Winter Solstice
Our Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year started with a beautiful dawn which was followed by […]
Haleotydeus Destructor
The name says it all, and we are infested with them. I first spotted them a month ago […]
Hairy Paddock
Ten days after we rolled the seed in, the oats have sprouted. There was a little bit of […]
Finishing the Oats
The first job on the third and final day of oat planting 2013 was picking up all the […]
Tickling the Paddock
To prepare the paddock for sowing, I used the landscape rake to de-thatch the dead weeds, scarify the […]
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