Once upon a time I was a Chemical Engineer now I am a born again Farmer. The transition was really quite easy with the major change that the life of feasibility studies has ended and any experiment that I wish to undertake is at my peril.
It has been a great year for strawberries. We have had Strawberries almost continuously since Christmas. The extra work we did last year side dressing the rows with Soil First compost have certainly yielded good results. The dry and hot … Continue reading →
Australia Day on the 26th January. We were invited to the Break O’Day Celebrations for Australia Day. What a nice day it was too. It was great to see members of our community honored. Apparently this is also the … Continue reading →
Hi everyone , nearly that time of year. As one business owner said to me holidays coming up as we are closed on Christmas Day and therefore theoretically get the day off . That’s the only day officially that Eureka … Continue reading →
Angry residents have been looking for answers as to why the water supply for Scamander hasn’t improved since the Ben Lomond Water seized the assets under a state proclamation from the Break O’Day municipality. I say seized as there has … Continue reading →
Yes we are picking lots of raspberries. We have 6 pickers now besides our permanent girl Lisa. Two are from France, one from Sweden, one from Taiwan and two from Japan. Everyone seems to be getting along well and that … Continue reading →
What a great name for an organisation. These people are setting themselves up very professionally with 4wd bus tours in what would be one of the best bus fitouts that I have seen. Recently to promote their trips they took … Continue reading →
I have a Echo CS660-evl which needs some new parts. Is there anyone out there who can supply me with piston rings for this model. (and ideally a new piston) I may have found a source for new rings although … Continue reading →
Every day on the farm is a fight to obtain or maintain order against a determination of nature to return things back to the bush. With heavy rain during the winter and intermittent but regular rainy days this month followed … Continue reading →
Just an update. As I said in the last post we had rain on the weekend. Whilst this could cause disease in the fruit trees such as brown rot it meant that the fertiliser I added last week got soaked … Continue reading →
Warmer weather seems to get people out driving and seeing our beautiful countryside before they or the countryside gets too busy. Well that also means we have to stock up with ice-cream. So on Saturday we prepared the fruit and … Continue reading →