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Some childhood dream became true on Wednesday : Rusty arrived from Tauranga. Such a lovely character, not shy but gentle, a bit droopy looking

As summer really turned into summer, we decided that it was time for another paddock pick-nick. So we grabbed the pizza, the wine and the kids and went down to the pond in the valley. Not long until we had nosy visitors that were very…

The kids adore him and he is not scared but is growing well. He is the only one left our of three that we found originally. But he’s growing strong and eats well – and very loudly so. The kids feed him and look after…

Things you don’t expect to find on your gumboots… biggest stick insect I’ve seen to date

Just wanting to share an image from the end of a lovely and productive weekend. Shady’s seem to have caught fire.

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

I have been listening to that cow in distress now since yesterday afternoon, all night through and had a walk down the valley this morning to make sure it wasn’t ours.

Spring is back again and so is the beautiful weather and sunshine.

Spring has sprung but it would appear that it has temporarily left us.

The spring grass has grown, the alpacas and cows are happy!

Every year our daughter’s school holds an agricultural day, where the children have to raise a farm animal and show it at school. Jolan has created a video diary about her calf Cheeky. I think she’s done an awesome job with her idea, have a…

After we cut all the dead privets off along the boundary fence last Monday, we thought that we could as well burn it as it was dry and there was hardly any wind on that day. The kids concluded that we could then have a…