Spring 2017
Due to ill health we've had to stop most farm projects and haven't been able to keep the garden going over the past couple of years. We're back at work again and facing a huge clean up to restart the vege garden and nursery. We are looking for help to get everything ship shape and producing again.
The vege garden is covered in knee high weeds and grass at the moment. The ground needs to be cleared, manure gathered and spread, and weed mat laid down. Seed needs to be started in the nursery area and herbs propagated. The vegetable garden is the area of the farm that gives the quickest return for effort. Cleaned up in Spring it can be producing well by the new year.
The plant nursery is over grown with blackberries and there are hundreds of empty pots to be cleared. The gravel needs to be weeded and leveled and weed mat laid down. Seed can go in now, perennials divided and a few early cuttings taken.
Other areas of the farm need attention too, half completed projects need to be finished. An old fallen down chook shed needs to be tidied up and the materials used to finish the poultry barn. We have a pile of old chicken pen walls that need to be recovered and stood up to give us more animal housing. Fences are in need of work. We need to make a small bedding area for the cows, they can spend the nights locked up to poop on straw that we use as the basis for our compost and worm beds.
Due to ill health we've had to stop most farm projects and haven't been able to keep the garden going over the past couple of years. We're back at work again and facing a huge clean up to restart the vege garden and nursery. We are looking for help to get everything ship shape and producing again.
The vege garden is covered in knee high weeds and grass at the moment. The ground needs to be cleared, manure gathered and spread, and weed mat laid down. Seed needs to be started in the nursery area and herbs propagated. The vegetable garden is the area of the farm that gives the quickest return for effort. Cleaned up in Spring it can be producing well by the new year.
The plant nursery is over grown with blackberries and there are hundreds of empty pots to be cleared. The gravel needs to be weeded and leveled and weed mat laid down. Seed can go in now, perennials divided and a few early cuttings taken.
Other areas of the farm need attention too, half completed projects need to be finished. An old fallen down chook shed needs to be tidied up and the materials used to finish the poultry barn. We have a pile of old chicken pen walls that need to be recovered and stood up to give us more animal housing. Fences are in need of work. We need to make a small bedding area for the cows, they can spend the nights locked up to poop on straw that we use as the basis for our compost and worm beds.