Goodbye Mocha

14 August 2021
cuddling, feed, mocha

Today we said goodbye to Mocha, one of our Alpaca boys who was born here back in 2016.

Someone down in the village bought two alpaca boys and one of them sufddenly dies and as you cannot have just one lonely alpaca, we sold him our Mocha. Good luck Mocha, we will be missing you. You have been a good boy and we are sure that you new home will be lovely and the other guy will be a good buddy for you.

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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.

Nature has decided it’s spring

1 September 2022
birds, cats, cheeky, dry, ducklings, ducks, eggs, farm, feed, flooding, goats, horses, mud, nature, night, rain, rescue, sun, twi, water, weather, winter

Apart from the usual winter farm activities, there has not been much exciting stuff happening. It’s been a typical winter with lots of rain, lots of mud but rather warm in comparison. It looks like nature has decided that it is spring.

Winter Solstice & Matariki

26 June 2022
background, box, christmas, content, cooking, ducks, eggs, family, farm, feed, goats, horses, la, land, nature, rats, scenery, shearing, sun, sunset, trapping, twi, weather, winter

The weather has turned from somewhat wet and warm to rather wet and cold. The horses have been rugged up just like the goats. The rodent infestation has become noticeable, so we started putting up more traps on top of the traps and bait stations we already had.

Lockdown – here we go again

28 August 2021
animals, cheeky, dinner, ducks, event, family, farm, fire, firewood, friends, house, joey, land, life, mocha, moon, moonset, rain

If not doing office work, we fix fences, move animals around, collect, cut and chop firewood, dig trenches, build goat houses ;-) and fix all sorts of things that break over time.

More foraging

2 June 2021
dry, family, feed, fire, firewood, forest, house, kids, nature, rain, sky, surf, winter

A few days ago there was finally a window with no rain and a bit of time, so managed to fill 4 feed bags with pine cones. Pine cones are excellent fire starters, full of resin and a rather large surface, thus burn really well, long and hot.

Seasons: Bye Summer, hello Autumn

16 April 2021
animals, digger, family, feed, fire, firewood, fog, friends, geese, goats, horses, sea, shelter, valley, winter

The seasons are changing. Summer went and Easter and Autumn came around. We have been starting to prepare for winter to come.