Feels like spring

4 March 2018
flowers, garden

Although summer is officially over, it almost feels like spring. Flowers in the garden and in the paddocks, raspberries, and chillies are ripening.

It’s almost February

29 January 2023
animals, christmas, event, farm, feed, flooding, garden, grass, land, outdoor, rain, rescue, shearing, tree

The month is almost over and has been rather eventful. From rain to sunshine to torrential rain again and alpaca shearing in between.

Ducks for bug control

14 August 2022
animals, cayuga, ducks, farm, garden, house, outdoor, plants

Today, we made an attempt of getting the ducks out of the duck run and into the garden for some bug and snail control. They were not too keen to get out and needed convincing, some of them we simply had to literally throw out.

Happy Earth Day 2022

22 April 2022
background, bbq, box, button, content, detail, dinner, family, farm, flowers, forest, garden, house, insect, land, mushrooms, nature, outdoor, people, rain, scenery, sun, sunset, tree, valley, water

The warm and humid weather produced lovely field mushrooms to be harvested. Earlier we harvested basil, limes and potatoes.

Finding beauty on rainy days

25 October 2021
detail, flowers, land, nature, rain, scenery, water

Even on rainy days you can find a lot of beauty outside when you decide to battle the elements and get outside.

Springtime again and lovely weather

26 September 2021
box, eggs, farm, flowers, friends, insect, land, nature, outdoor, rain, rusty, scenery, winter

It’s so nice to get outside between rain break. The weather has been warming up over the the last days and we are getting 20 deg during the day.

Water everywhere – in the midst of winter

24 July 2021
box, cats, cooking, ducks, eggs, fog, food, garden, horses, house, people, tree, water, weather, winter

It’s been rather wet, foggy and cold in the last couple of days. The cats spent more time inside and expressing a form of cabin fever when awake but they are mostly asleep.The horses are asking for more food, the chickens are hiding in their house and the ducks – well, the ducks are in their element.