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Loquats ripe here at the moment, pecans turning brown and opening, macadamias dropping first nuts, blasted cockatoos are cackling and circling already, monsteras ready to pick, wurtz and hass avos...

Hello Shimmergirl,
My NZ bred South Dorset Down and Poll Dorset, South African Dormers and Dorpers and Aussie Suffolk ewes (not the leggy American types) mostly begin to cycle the week before...

Lovely spot! Thanks for posting so many photos of your progress. Nice to see such new and exciting gardens. I've never seen so much mulch hay in one place before, best wishes on your continueing...

Thanks for your kind thoughts and quotations Treetops clan.
Things are not really difficult, it just requires adaptation which requires extra thought and energies. We also probably might know what...

Hi eco,
hope that you and your place are weathering well.
In reply to your question regarding mulch planting- when the summer growing grasses and herbage slow in growth as the day length shortens...

A primordial urge occurs in me at this time of year to stock up the pantry for the winter and lay in dried foods, firewood, fill the freezer and a not so primeval check on things financial for the...

Poor language skills, sorry. Pulses good, milk good, any meat scraps and any swill in this country are illegal to feed farm animals. Hefty fines apply in the order of tens of thousands of dollars....

Damn that aging! Could also be any or a combination of recent moult, parasites external and internal, too much wet weather, protein and specific essential amino acid dietary deficiencies, lack of...

Just might be a bloody great carpet snake camped somewhere in their pen waiting for the right moment?

Ahah! the plot thickens. Just how many of you were responsible along with myself?

Postscript. Please remind me not to raindance so vigorously next time it is dry for a little while!

750 odd mm of rain here this week, cyclonic winds, what a dramatic end to the dry spell! Some soil loss, mature trees and all in a couple of mudslides, lost all bananas, most figs and all mangoes and...

In reality pretty analagous to our situation here in Australia where corporate farming is the future, family farms and small holdings to be abolished or simply non-accredited out of mainstream food...

Politicians are voted in by the people who choose to vote. They stay in power because they are the lesser evil in the next election or they are genuinely earth shakers who have not yet been party...

Our faithful hard working cattle dog bitch "Haggis" has given us over 12 years of hard work in mountainous country and no longer has many teeth so has been retired. So the old girl surprised us today...

Hello S.O.P,
look at some pics on photoblog if you like. www.photoblog.com/dinosaur. Bloody dry and horrible here at present. Please feel free to visit after the rains have arrived, also I am...

Hello there. There is a commercially available bloat oil called I think Teric bloat oil, largely a detergent type action to get rid of the froth. The bicarb just neutralises the acid produced by the...

23 mm total here, better than a dry wind storm I suppose hey? Frustrating to see it hammering down twice that a km or so away in every direction. Ground cracks are 100 mm across in places and mature...

Fertiliser.

Nine months already since my last confession! Five months of very little rain tries out the system and the psych. no end. My last post was when we were enduring a feast of rainfall. It is amazing to...