On farm classes
I hope you have a restful, peaceful and happy Christmas day, whatever it means for you at your place. We had our long-held family tradition of a cooked breakfast on the beach this morning and we've dropped in jars of treats to dear friends. The wrapping paper is out and […]
On the south coast we start picking coffee in December. I say "we" but I have yet to drop a bean in a bucket this year. Part timer. Drink it? Why yes please. Ivy has done more picking than I have. Mostly because she's following Grandpa around. Like, all […]
We've moved our laying flock from our acre block over to the farm. Very exciting for us, not so much for poor Casanova left behind (he actually belongs to the neighbours, he just lived with our ladies.) Poor folorn rooster. He spent the first day in the empty […]
Lovely folk, it's so lovely to see you this Wednesday before Christmas. I have no slice, I'm afraid. Next week. Here's hoping. For someone who is usually TOTALLY Christmassy, I'll admit up front I'm really struggling this year. I have had a wonderful number of Bikkie orders every day […]
You know you're a bit saturated in northern hemisphere culture when your Australian kids ask whether it really is Christmas time, like, where's the snow? We don't do fake snow on the trees or windows over here. We embrace a warm Christmas and a cool seafood lunch. More on […]
Tomorrow morning, starting out at 4.30am with a farming friend who also raises chickens, I'm going to my first abattoir. With my meat chickens aboard. This has been fascinating. These quick growing meat chickens kinda challenged my slow food mentality, and we'll try a slightly different breed next time […]
Making: homemade butter homemade bread homemade yoghurt and my new experiment: homemade buttermilk. Happy happy happy. Hope you've had a weekend of happy too. xxx
One of the weird things about blogs are the way they are only a small part of a bloggers world. You get a glimpse, you get an idea of what that world is doing, but it's really only one small projected part. There's been one major absence in this […]
I broke a fence today. (Actually it wasn't today – this is a post I drafted earlier this week before the week got sidetracked, but more on that tomorrow.) Not this exact fence, this is a photo I took earlier. Same farm, different paddock. I detatched the springy electric gate […]
For someone that talks a lot about food it might surprise you that I have a lot of trouble feeding my middle child. I was spoilt by Henry who at two made me one of those incredibly annoying mothers who gave their child steamed broccoli to snack on, and he […]