Thursday, February 3, 2011

First Chicken killed for meat

Killing your own food to eat Well, we finally killed our first chook for meat, it was one of the first lot of  chickens we had, way back here He was a male, and had just started crowing, so off with his head.  While it's difficult, it's also probably the most wholistic way of sourcing your own meat.  Buying them from the Supermarket having been raised in who knows what conditions, with you several steps removed from the process...

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

More fruit trees and other things

Fruit Trees We plant a few new fruit trees each year, just planted a Eureka Lemon, 2 Passionfruit and 2 Paw Paws today.  After digging the holes, I filled them with water, waited until they drained then used our compost to fill them, watered the plants and then mulched them with Comfrey leaves. New Paw Paw New Eureka Lemon The Dwarf Mulberry we planted a few months ago (Nov 2010) (below) seems to be doing okay, at the same time we did 2 x Pecan, 2 x Japoticaba, 2x Pecan and 1 x Passionfruit...