Flood damage
380mm of rain in 36 hours or over 200mm in 12 hours. I have never seen so much rain. We go to bed after some rain all day but nothing extraordinary and wake up to find the valley flooded. All … Continue reading →
Category Archives: The Farmer’s Blog
Happy New Year
Well another year nearly gone. Our picking team celebrating after many days of picking raspberries together. A couple missing from this photo. (Ian and Catarina). From left to right Michael, Daniel(back), Adam, Catherine, Nicol , Tommo and Nick. This years … Continue reading →
Christmas nearly here
Madly picking Raspberries but weather this year is atrocious. Lots of rain and quite cold. Both difficult conditions for picking. The first makes it impossible to pick as wet raspberries are allmost impossible to handle both for the pickers and … Continue reading →
Feast or Famine
In 2006 we had major bushfire. 1991,1992 major flooding in the summer. In recent years I would say more of them have been hot and dry but this year looks like another wet summer. Whilst everything looks beautiful it slows … Continue reading →
Geese Day
Lots of geese this year as earlier photo indicated. We were not sure what to do with them and Ann doesn’t particularly like eating what we had grown used to seeing, and become friendly with. So Ann decided to put an add … Continue reading →
It’s Raspberry Time
Hi everyone. We have just launched out shopping trolley. It has been a long winded task but just like a boat it now is out there for all of you to look at and it will sink or swim on … Continue reading →
Ingrid & Justin’s Wedding
Ingrid and Justin renewed there vows on the 13th November. Ingrid is my niece just in case no one knows who are these characters. They live in Newcastle N.S.W. So all the family and friends had to get to … Continue reading →
Strawberries
first fruits of the season are always strawberries. We have two patches 2,000 in an old area and another 4,000 across the river. We call it a river although most of the time it is dry. This new patch is … Continue reading →
Wineglass Bay -Freycinet Peninsula
 This is a most amazing place. Generally when my family visit we make a visit to Wineglass Bay. This time we stayed for two nights at the YHA and really had an opportunity to soak up the atmosphere. The … Continue reading →
Just Blogging along..
September is going very quickly. Quite a few warmer days and it won’t be long and we will not need a fire at night. Some of the apricots are showing fruitlets. A good sign that the bees have been busy. However … Continue reading →