by Richard | Apr 24, 2021 | Farm Updates
I’m exhausted and feeling overwhelmed with the amount of things to do. We’ve been having issues with the hens laying eggs in a corner of one of the egg-mobiles, so I’ve decided to swop it out for the egg-mobile that still has the original nest boxes. There goes...
by Richard | Apr 23, 2021 | Farm Updates
New cases of bird flu means the birds are staying in the tunnels for at least another few weeks and that we have a tough decision to make; do we pick up the next batch of broilers or not? The new lambs are doing good, soon we’ll have pigs arriving, and the transplants...
by Richard | Apr 19, 2021 | Farm Updates
So, we finished the fencing at Klätta and are back at Ridgedale. Today is a big day; the broilers are leaving the brooder, but for the first time ever they’re going into a polytunnel instead of onto pasture. We’re also doing more transplanting and direct seeding. Are...
by Richard | Apr 18, 2021 | Farm Updates
We’re on the West Coast farm, enjoying lovely spring weather. We’ve come to fence off the pasture so that we can keep the sheep here for the summer. Because there are no predators on this side of the big highway, we’re just using sheep netting with...
by Richard | Apr 14, 2021 | Farm Updates
Tired, but happy: We finally got three healthy lambs. We’ve also been doing a bit of direct seeding, putting up a 20m caterpillar tunnel, making predator poles and taking the yurts up to the forest, and we’ve started building the new decking. We’re looking...
by Richard | Apr 12, 2021 | Farm Updates
We’d just transplanted the first kales and then it snowed again… We also stayed up late for lambing, sadly only to welcome two more bad lambs. Eggs have started coming, so we’ve been ironing out the last nest box kinks, and we’ve also prepared the second tunnel for...
