Updates
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We have dung beetles!
Clearing wet hay out of the sheep paddock turned up a very welcome surprise.
24 October 2026We built a brooder
A recycled water tank, an old carport, two thermostats and rather more chicks than originally planned.
20 October 2026We made bacon
Bacon from our own pigs: hot smoked, cured with plain salt, a little overcooked, and still the best Anthony has ever eaten.
16 October 2026Hope got the sock
Latte's second set of twins arrived the day before a weekend away, and only one of them got fed.
6 October 2026We'll take 15 millimetres
It wasn't a huge fall, but after months without decent rain we'll take it. Better still, we finally got to watch the contours fill.
19 September 2026Our second butcher day
A delayed butcher day meant bigger animals, more winter feeding, a freezer panic and a much better result than last year.
19 September 2026September is the rug pull
March makes farming feel easy. By September the grass is brown, hay is scarce and spring hasn't really arrived.
16 September 2026We thought the answer was organic
What changed when we read Gabe Brown's Dirt to Soil, and why the shift to grass arrived sideways.
16 September 2026Forty acres felt like far too much
Three years ago this month we moved in, and the place was bigger than we knew what to do with.
- 14 September 2026
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