May 15, 2024
It has been a year of great growth on the land helped by two reasonably wet summers in a row. The young trees have flourished and […]
May 27, 2023
As I contemplated the end of our third year in this valley, I struggled to think of what we had achieved over the past year. Time […]
September 5, 2022
It’s been just over two years since we moved to our homestead in this rugged valley. Life has changed so much and yet so little, the […]
March 26, 2022
Our neighbour’s forestry block was being harvested and they were about to move into the area which has our spring source and 15,000 litre water tank. […]
August 19, 2021
Its finally harvest time and the pines are coming down! It’s only been ten months since they first said the harvest would happen, October was the […]
June 10, 2021
Warning story contains mentions of foul putrid dead rodents. I opened the shed door at pig and chook feeding time, startling sleek glossy fat rat. Up […]
May 11, 2021
From the moment we are born, we begin to learn and to the day we die we are surrounded by opportunities to continue learning and growing. […]
April 25, 2021
Lucy has only ever had a ‘sheep herd’, ever since we picked her up as a tiny 6 day old lowline Angus/jersey cross dairy calf. The teeny bundle […]
April 17, 2021
Tales from the Homestead We live our life on a precipice and I’m not talking metaphorically here. Not far from our house is a cliff. A […]