Trying to be at one with weeds. Win a uBiome test and see what's going on in your gut!
My hands and forearms are a painful mess of little cuts – I can see black thorns dotted all under my inflamed skin. We’ve been away for the summer and “the blackberry situation” at our place has gotten away from us. This weekend I’ve been slashing and grubbing out blackberry, we’ll spray the regrowth with organic pine-oil to knock it back, get the cows in to graze the flush […]
Farming – cold, wet, hot and boring – but I love it.
Farming is awful – the weather’s terrible, it’s cold and wet or really hot, it’s boring – but I love it and I wouldn’t do anything else. Katherine Gillet ,Two and Five’s farm manager is beautifully honest about her job, The one day a week I’m in the office I really hate it. Two and Five Farm just north of Geelong […]
Dry. The green gauntlet is well and truly taken up.
For the past month we’ve been up and down from our place in Fish Creek. It’s been a beautiful South Gippsland spring; cold enough to have a fire at night and hot enough in the day to have to put on a sunhat. But it’s dry – on the bus down from Melbourne the other day […]
