Summer Veg
I love this time of the year, not because I particularly like the sometimes harsh temperatures of a South Australian summer, but rather because I love growing my own food…
Australia Day Long Weekend
This weekend marked the anniversary of when Captain Cook arrived on our shores. I'm not sure that's an event that necessarily requires celebration when I consider the damage that was…
Blackberries
Isn't it funny how one word can produce such an array of emotions? We have blackberries on our farm, big, out of control, never-been-sprayed blackberries. While I recognise that they…
Slow day
Today is the first day of my holidays and I decided that I would have a 'home' day, a day to purposefully stay at home and do things around the…
Livestock
Part of our reason for buying 40 acres is so that we can work towards a higher level of self-sufficiency. While I recognise that we will never be fully self-sufficient…
Jagged Crow Farm
It has finally happened. After three years of searching, looking, walking over blocks, thinking about what's important, setting criteria and reviewing possible purchases against that criteria, we have finally become…
Moving
I haven't blogged for a while - we've been moving house. Our large unsustainable house has been sold and we are now renters again. I haven't rented for over 15…
Winter Surprise
A couple of weeks ago, my husband and I travelled to the west coast of South Australia - to the thriving fishing and farming community of Port Lincoln part of…
Local Residents
When I first met my now husband, he lived in the suburbs, the inner city suburbs. He'd been raised in rural Australia but upon finding work in the city he…
Eggs
A little while ago our second chook started moulting. She looked terrible, feathers falling out all over the place, bare skin revealed on her underside, skin showing through around her…