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Good to hear from you again dierich. Your farmlet sounds like it is coming along nicely.Netting is a great help here mainly over the fruit tree orchard.

Hi people, its been a long time since I spent most nights checking the happenings on ALS! Found the link when I was looking for something else so thought I’d pop in and say hi. Back then, I was just making the move from suburbia to 2 acres in a small town an hour from Adelaide. 8 lovely years there and we upsized to around 30 acres just out of…[Read more]

Hello FiEddie, welcome to ALS. I live 2 and 1/2 hours from a capital city and off the grid.

Hi everyone, I wS excited to find this fab site : my husband and I live in Brisbane with our two sons – looking to sell everything and make the move to large acreage, live ‘off the grid’ as much as possible (with the exception of needing ‘internet’ for business and life – we homeschool). My background is in marketing and coaching (though for 20y…[Read more]

Thankfully we have had a bit of rain and now the dam is half full. Wood cutting is a never ending job here over winter as DH doesn’t like using the chain saw over summer especially when it was so dry.
I haven’t planted many winter veg as I was waiting for the rain but a few broad beans have come up. The runner/bush beans and peas haven’t…[Read more]

Hi ballamara…
How are you? I hope you’ve had some rain. We’ve been busy here chopping wood to get enough wood put aside, have to find another wood stove saw some really nice ones in Toowoomba a chap down there does them up just have to save.
We haven’t had much rain but it is so cold 8.30pm and its already -3°C so will be a white Winter…[Read more]