sea – Pukeatua Farmstay

Summer has gone and Easter has come

24 April 2022
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Within days, the hot summer weather had moved on and made space for moderate temperatures with rain and fog.

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.

Making quills out of duck feathers

6 February 2021
birds, family, kids, sea, walking

We created quills out of some duck feathers. They have the big advantage that the quill is actually pretty long already. Still not long enough to actually handle them properly though. Shaved some of the vane off and it was much better.

Quiet times

12 May 2020
animals, baking, dry, ducklings, ducks, eggs, family, farm, feed, food, forest, grass, land, mushrooms, people, rain, rusty, sea, shady, sun, sunrise, tree, valley, water, weather

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 got more feed in.

Summer on its way and so nice outside

3 November 2019
bbq, christmas, farm, flowers, food, garden, grass, land, night, sea, sun, sunrise, weather

Spring soon will turn into summer and the weather during the day is already so awesome.

Frosty mornings are here

1 July 2018
digger, grass, sea, winter

Winter seem to have finally arrived. Frosty moorings with frozen grass. The was ice on the digger seat!

Silver and the carpet

13 March 2018
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Anyone in need of a carpet cleaner? Search no more, we have a cute one for you.

We have officially started the fire season :-)

12 March 2018
fire, rain, sea

We have officially started the fire season. It’s pretty yucky and rainy out there. Hope everyone is well.

Eggs – the difference and the life of chickens

12 February 2018
eggs, life, rescue, sea

Fascinating to see the difference in eggs when I put some of ours into the egg carton too. Keep in mind that our chicken are mostly ex-battery hens that once used to produce those cage eggs. They were not considered good and productive enough for the batteries and hence would have been culled if we had not taken them.

Finally rain!

20 December 2017
animals, christmas, garden, grass, land, rain, sea, water, weather

This year, the nice, hot weather started already mid November and by now, we had no rain for 5 weeks and all local water carriers are booked out until end of January. Finally we had some rain and that filled the tank almost up again so we can enjoy the festive season finally without worrying.

Finally winter – cold nights

3 July 2016
feed, land, night, sea, valley, winter

I love the seasons and their distinctive differences. Autumn with its colours and now winter with their crisp, cold and blue mornings. I went down the valley this morning to feed the cows and alpacas. We feed they hay to warm them up and they love it. Took some pictures on they way. The alpacas greeted me with frost on their backs. What a lovely cold morning.

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