Well after my last post, as you
can imagine we have just been happy to get into the farm work. I look around the farm and see so many things
to do that sometimes I wonder what we have been doing the last couple of
months. Then I put together a blog post
and it all comes flooding back. It
really is a full life. Here are some
photos so you can share in that “holy dooley!!” moment. Sorry about the lack of Coreen photos, she takes all the good ones!
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| A walk up to Hartz with Mike and Tig... |
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| ...produces staggering views |
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| Mike and Tig coming down from Hartz Mountain. |
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| The lad styling it up on the farm (note the eczema on his cheeks). |
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| The Kingston Black grafts get jumping... |
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| and the Frequin Rouge are also looking good! |
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| Our new litter of piglets grow so fast. |
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| A couple of pigs from our last litter of piglets end up in a charcuterie course run by our old WWOOFer host Mandy. |
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| Making sausage at Mandy's. |
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| Our salamis hanging to dry, they taste great! |
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| All our bacon and pancetta from the course, so much fun to make. |
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| A fine day at the Apple Shed, but Julian is unimpressed by his lack of cider. |
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| I tell him he will get cider later, see the difference? |
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| We put our new found skills into practice on a couple of our pigs... |
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| ...and produce a staggering array of pork! |
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| Julian is growing almost as fast as our piglets. |
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| Taking Mary up the paddock to join the flock. |
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| Our shed conversion gets going in earnest... |
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| ...the slab goes down... |
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| ...the framing is up... |
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| ...and the weatherboards start to go on. |
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| You take a change table where you find it! |
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| We have a lot of apples, Matt showing our wonderful Japanese backpackers how to thin them out. |
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| Look, bacon seeds! |
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| We start bottling our own home brew... |
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| ...but probably not enough for Christmas! |
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| Poor Julian ends up in hospital for a couple of days this week when his eczema turns nasty. |
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| Dave and Toddy getting our Christmas lambs "undressed". |
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| Now that's a lot of Christmas lamb! |
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| Such a great pic. |
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| Lots of Braeburns... |
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| and plenty of others! It will be a busy harvest come May. |
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| So that is it, have a Merry Christmas!! |
