Posts for Dry

The weather is getting warmer, the mud on the ground has disappeared, the grass has been growing lots, making animals and people are happy.

September came and marked the beginning of spring. Two days prior however it was the coldest night of the year with frost on the car windscreen.

With winter just around the corner your home will start to feel colder. We have some dry excellent quality pinecones for sale.

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.

Summer’s dry spell brings the perfect opportunity for essential farm maintenance – from clearing drains and grading driveways to moving logs and managing stockpiled materials.

We have not seen much rain in more than 2 months now but rather hot, sunny weather with wind. Both dries out the land, particularly the hillsides facing the Kaipara where the wind blows from and which the hot afternoon sun hits.

It’s been a few rather wet days. Some with intermittent sunshine but not enough to dry up the ground yet. The cats use the sunny breaks to go outside but other than that they seem to be in hibernation.

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,…

The first days of summer greeted with a mixed bag of weather. The first day was coldish and still wet with quite some wind. But that all eased down on the second day which turned into a nice, dry and hot summer day featuring blue…

Here’s the rain that is supposedly to end the drought.

Another summer has gone by and autumn came, dry and cold.

While we had no guests, have not been out to see any people and had no coffee other than the home made one due to COVID-19 lockdown level 4 and 3, we fixed a few things around the farm, moved animals around the paddocks and…