Posts for Building

Auckland stays peaceful during the holiday exodus as farm life continues. Time off work means tackling essential fence repairs and dealing with cheeky goats testing boundaries.

Discover how New Zealand’s first queen yellow-legged hornet detection is prompting locals to build DIY wasp traps to protect honeybees and crops from this invasive threat.

Did a stroll down to the alpacas with Jolan, our daughter. The halter we brought did not fit any of the boys or girls so we just fed them and progressed towards building a little bivy out of old branches and tree bark.

The last winter has been so terribly wet and turned all paddocks into mud that we decided to have the horses in a shelter and feed them rather than having them wading through mud and effectively thrashing the paddocks.

After a long time of thinking, designing and making I’ve finally finished and installed our new Pukeatua letterbox… made from the same macrocarpa cladding that we’ve used to build the Farmstay