The area being farmed here is about 45 hectares. The place I was at previously in Hepburn was about 1.5 hectares. This place is divided up into numerous fields (small by commercial standards), most of which have rows of trees planted along the fences – oak trees, eucalypts, conifers. There are a number of [...]
There are tools & machinery used on this farm that I’ve never seen before. Most of them are attachments to the tractor. The veggies for instance are grown in rows that a tractor can drive down. The rows are rotary hoed to dig in old plants, a power harrow is used to form the rows [...]
A topic high in everyone’s thoughts here is water. With the decrease in rainfall it’s becoming increasingly difficult for farmers, as well as for people growing in their backyards. Around here there has been a dramatic reduction in surface water – water in streams, lakes and dams. For instance there is a lake nearby here [...]
I started at my next WWOOFing destination last Saturday, out at Blampied, between Ballarat & Daylesford. The week in between I stayed in Ballarat to do the first weekend of the “BREAZE All Seasons Permaculture Design Course”. The first day we did a tour of the “Urban Food Garden” in Ballarat. John Ditchburn grows a [...]