Pick your own blackcurrants $2/kg Jan 21st

SATURDAY Jan 21st 10am – 4pm Location: 710 Glen Huon Rd, Glen Huon. Find it on Google Maps here (don’t be looking for the blackcurrants near the main road, as Google Maps still has them pictured – we grubbed them out years ago). Once you get to the...

So, what happened with the raspberries??

UPDATE: the fruit test results are back – all ok – read about them here. …an apology, by way of explanation… The short version Our raspberries are growing on an old apple orchard site, in which old pesticides were used for some years. As a...

The season, ’tis out of joint…

This kind of thing (and its geopolitical implications) is probably what scares me most about climate change. With snow on the surrounding hills, here are our raspberries, shooting from the buds, before the leaves have even dropped completely. I’m a new hand with...

Flood July 2016

And yes, I’m dating it with a month, in case there’s another one this year, because it’s been that kind of year. I checked the river level around 3:30pm Thursday and it had just risen into the paddock a few feet. The bureau had a moderate flood...

Snow day

A few pics, and some video, from feeding the cattle this morning. Damn those snow flakes on the lens… It’s a long way from one end of the farm to the...