Denis Buchanan
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.
Water restrictions for the town of Scamander
The Drought Continues
Our time is up
Climate Change is affecting Tasmania
Eureka Farm is experiencing first hand the effects of climate warming. For us we watch and wait as each day the forests which surround us get drier and the water level in the dam gets lower every day. True we … Continue reading →
Bushfires – Scamander\
Australia’s Housing Crisis
Everyone needs a roof over their head. No one should have to sleep rough in Australia. Public housing is always going to be needed. Many people are not equipped or happen to be in a locality where housing costs are … Continue reading →
Plum recipes
Eureka Farm grows a lot of plums. We must have up to 500 trees. Most of our plums are blood plums meaning the flesh is red. The first plums we used to grow were Santa Rosa followed by a variety … Continue reading →
Fruit Fly back in Tasmania
Every year Victoria dumps late season fruit into Tasmania just when our fruit is ripening. Tasmania has the potential to produce good quality fruit but there is no incentive to keep trying when this happens. Now that the danger of … Continue reading →
Seasons Greetings
We have been very busy picking berries. Heaps of raspberries this year. Maybe the attention I gave them in spring paid off. Our hill paddock suffered from last years dry weather and the subsequent incursion of weeds such as clover, … Continue reading →