by Marshall | Jan 21, 2016 | News
I could never call myself a “foodie”, because I just don’t know enough about food. I didn’t even know what an avocado was until I was in my late teens, and hadn’t tasted an olive until I was an adult. But I’ve noticed that foodies...
by Marshall | Jan 18, 2016 | News
For a while there things were looking up for the blackcurrants. We’d had orders for a decent tonnage of fruit from a couple of commercial customers with talk of that escalating in a couple of years – still small fry compared to the 180 ton we’ve...
by Marshall | Jan 14, 2016 | News
A quick shout out and thanks to Island Berries Tasmania for our first commercial order of the season; we pulled the old girl out of the shed yesterday and once again she did a sterling job picking nice, intact, clean fruit. Keep your eye out in IGA for their syrup...
by Marshall | Jan 13, 2016 | News
We had a commercial order of blackcurrants to fill today, but thanks to the weather and the total fire ban, we were unable to harvest until after 6pm. So we started at 7pm and thankfully the rain held off long enough to get the boxes filled. Blackcurrants don’t...
by Marshall | Jan 12, 2016 | News
The hay mentioned below has been sold – but we’ve more on the way – feel free to enquire. Early in the season it looked like we were going to be stuck for fodder crops, with little early growth and a dry summer forecast. But it turns out we’ve...
by Marshall | Jan 6, 2016 | News
It seems we might have a mascot. I finally gave in to the family’s wish for a dog. My one criterion: “I don’t want something so small that it’s going to get lost in the grass”. But somehow we ended up with a miniature schnauzer...
