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Well, we’ve finally landed at our dream home/farm at Mount Pleasant, South Australia. We moved on 27th September, but only managed to get satellite internet connected last week! The place has dried off a lot since we moved, but there’s still plenty of dry feed around for animals. As well as the 9 chickens we moved with, we’ve added 9 sheep (2 dorpers and 7 Wiltshire horn ewes), 2 alpacas (Hamish & Halifax) and a myriad of wild rabbits. I’ve also got 2 hens sitting on eggs at the moment (chickens next week – yay!). Since moving, we’ve learned how to shoot rabbits, kill & prepare roosters, fix and tension fences and got our 500m2 shadecloth-covered veggie garden/orchard under control. I can’t wait to share more with you – we are so excited. Here are some photos of Hamish & Halifax to start with.
The property was set up by previous property owners for horses, although we don’t plan to have any. We’re gradually adding wire to some of the paddocks to keep other animals in. Can’t wait to get some pigs!!
This is the dam before it dried out. It needs a lot of work for it to retain water. Does anyone know anyone in the Adelaide Hills who could give us a quote/some advice on how best to tackle the dam? We have some sodium bentonite in the barn, but don’t want to add it ‘willy nilly’ and waste it. Better to get some advice first….
The view from the top of our property:
Here are a few photos of our shadecloth-covered veggie garden/orchard. We were lucky that it had some established fruit trees in it before we arrived. The whole area was covered in weeds, but I’ve managed to uncover most of the beds (a small corner left to go!). We’ve got a cherry (already eating the fruit – yum!), apricot, peaches, nectarine, pears, apples, plums, mandarin and probably a few others I can’t think of right now. There was also some dripper irrigation in place in the veggie beds, which is fed from the bore. Fun times ahead! I’ve planted a few tomatoes and some other bits and pieces but wont get too carried away seeing as it’s so late in the season. The soil here is very sandy and needs a lot of organic material, so it’s lucky I have a free supply of horse manure from our neighbours.
We also put in an internal wire fence so we could keep the chickens in around the fruit trees, but keep them OUT of the veggie beds.
Oh, and here’s a visitor we had to the farm last night
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