Rabbits Eating My Vegetables

Right, so I’ve got very little water, a very windy location… but guess what? Yes, another problem. RABBITS! They seem to be getting up in numbers again here in South Australia. Not that I had really noticed them much living in a town, although we do see them running across the road (and some as [...]

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Organic Gardening In A Windy Location

Growing veggies in quite an open location has it’s own complication. My new organic veggie garden is fairly exposed and our location has pretty strong winds on a regular basis – great for our future wind turbine, but really bad for growing vegetables.

I think I’ll probably end up building a walled in garden area, but [...]

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Getting Water To My Organic Garden

OK, so what are these problems that I’m talking about with my new organic garden? The first and main problem is that we don’t have mains water. We’re relying on rain water alone.
This is our first growing season on the farm and we haven’t got any water system in place yet. The farm has been [...]

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Growing Organic Herbs On The Farm

OK… it’s been a really long time since I’ve posted on the blog…  really sorry, but so much has happened since March!!!
We’ve bought a small farm in South Australia, just on the outskirts of the Barossa Valley. It’s 111 acres, though about 100 acres of it is share farmed.
We got it for a great [...]

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