Harvesting todays food

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One of the marvellous things about growing your own produce is harvesting it.. of course the BEST bit is the eating. Some of todays produce for the kitchen   The photo shows produce taken from the garden, just before lunch.  We had already eaten the Mandarins we'd picked from the tree with breakfast ! Lunch is a potato and egg salad, with parsley and spring onion, all from the garden. Along with a chickpea salad, followed by fresh strawberries and Yoghurt.  The rest of the potatoes...

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Birdlife

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At the moment the Friar Birds are back, the poor things must rate highly as one of the ugliest birds there is and are certainly raucous, I noticed them coming back at about the same time Sprig started, they seemed to leave mid Autumn. With so many flowering natives, the honeyeaters are prolific Scarlet Honeyeater Yellow Faced Honeyeater Eastern Spinebill Blue Faced Honeyeater as well as a variety of other birds Spangled Drongo Australia King Parrot Kookaburras on the Old Gum...

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Baby Chickens are doing well, nesting boxes and Lemon Verbana & Mint Tea

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The ISA Brown chook who had hew three chicks a couple weeks ago (see here) has been mothering them well and they are growing so fast and in the last two days, two more chooks have gone broody.  "Elvis" an Arukuna (lays blue eggs), who is off in her own little pen, and has been there a couple days and I noticed just today one of the Cornish Game Hens has gone broody, so we'll throw a couple eggs under her as well.  We hope this doesn't start a trend or we'll have none laying and then a...

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Spring is sprung !

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Well spring is definitely here, the chickens are starting to moult their winter feathers, and the flowers, gorgeous doesn't begin to describe it ! The bees are having a pollen orgasm with each and every flower they visit Peach Blossom Creeping Jasmine on the verandah corner Flowering Callistemon beside the driveway Covered in blossoms and be...

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Farm chore day and food glorious food

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We spent the last two days up at Mebin NP and Mt Warning, camping and hiking, Top, steep, chained section of Mt. Warning more pics here  So now back at "the farm" catching up with chores Finished of the chicken coop pole from an earlier blog post, dug in the green pea manure for some of the garden beds and a whole heap of weeding along with a myriad of other minor chores. The citrus marmalade that Toni had made back in early May was running out, apparently I had been eating too much...

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another day of farm chores

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We had decided that yesterday and today woudl be catch up days, while Toni was off putting fruit fly traps in the peach and nectariine trees and bagging the fruit, Peach Tree fruit being bagged and trap added. I was fixing another pole in the chook yard that was rotting at the bottom.  When initially bult they had short cut by simily putting thepoled dorectly into the ground, over the years the base has simply rotted.  Chook yard netting support pole with rotted base  We had...

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Gettin' stuff done...

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Busy day doing farm chores today.  Cut, split and stacked a heap of wood for use in the fireplace.  Installed trellis's for the 4 rows of peas, then weeded and mulched the strawberries among of myriad of smaller chores. Strawberries; freshly weeded and mulched We have been grabbing handfuls of the strawberries each morning to have with breakfast.  This morning we had boiled eggs from our chickens, home made bread with butter and home made marmalade, followed by a handful of strawberries...

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