Busy days

It's been a while ...because we've been so busy! We have covered our Vegie garden completly to keep all the wildlife out...we'll see how that goes! We had wwoofers from Turkey, Germany and Israel that helped us out with that...great to have all those extra hands to wrestle the net- 25m X 20m worth. I am really looking forward to planting seed without the frustration of it all being scratched up!

We've had some beautiful Wallabies around coming right up to the house...it makes me feel glad we don't have a dog to chase them off..every now and then we see a sign up on our local noticeboard for some beautiful hound and the kids beg and we only have to remind them of the little wallabies coming right up to our front door

It's been perfect weather for working out in the garden and after all the rain we had everything is growing so well. All 300 of the strawberry plant survived the trip from the vegie garden to the new strawberry plot. I was impressed because I was so rough with them..just ripping them out and throwing them around. Looking forward to the 1st fruits!

The magic of Biodynamics

I attended a biodynamic workshop on the weekend and am feeling recharged in my enthusiasm for this magic method. We spent a day covering the therory of soil structure and the elements of biodynamics and we built a huge BD compost heap. So fantastic to have 15 people gathering and preparing materials-it came together so quickly. I'm looking forward to observing how using the preperations change our Lofty meadows.

Early morning Wallabies

Every morning we have a few spots around the block that the wallabies love grazing on. We love it-they are so lovely, so inquisitive and thoughtful looking. This photo was taken yesterday- a beautiful clear autumn day and last night the rain started. It rained all night and all day ...thank goodness we were very low in water and now one tank is already overflowing. The freshly transplanted strawberries are already perking up after their move.

1st bunch of Bananas

We are coming up close to two years here at our lovely lush Lofty meadows and we'll be picking our first bunch of bananas soon. It has been so satisfying to watch them grow from tiny little suckers into big healthy fruit bearing trees in such a short amount of time.

Our old Pizza oven

So it's time to build a better version of our pizza oven. This time with a roof to protect from the weather. I would like to keep with the dragon theme...having the dragon breathe fire was fantastic. This time we will build the oven with a ledge at the front to rest waiting or ready pizzas on.