In recent years, the agricultural sector has faced numerous challenges, including labor shortages, declining productivity, and the need for sustainable practices. To address these issues, innovative solutions are being explored, and one such approach is the gamification of agricultural labor. By integrating game mechanics into farming activities, this method aims to enhance efficiency, engagement, and […]

One of the best bits about blogging is that you get to know and meet all sorts of clever and creative people who you might never otherwise run into in the course of your life. Tucked away on our farm, there is not much chance to meet farmers and farmers wives from all over. People whose […]

Well we are well and truly back into everyday life after the fun of the summer holidays. Over the break we managed to take the camera out and snap quite a few pics around the farm. After lots of warm weather the grass is looking brown and dusty, and whenever the sheep are driven past […]

Most years around this time, I would be writing about our harvest; about how the weather has turned and we can feel Autumn is on its way. Except that this year the weather hasn’t really turned. It’s still warm during the day, and although the nights are a little cooler, it still hasn’t rained much […]

ONE I picked up these gorgeous tile trivets when I was in Sydney last week with Hannah. We went to see Ed Sheeran concert last week  (we gave her the tickets for her birthday in December) and took the opportunity to spend a few hours wandering the city and exploring all the things we can’t […]

Oh my goodness! All of a sudden we have been inundated with fruit from the orchard and vegetables from the garden. While it hasn’t been a great year for everything (I’m looking at you cucumbers and cherry tomatoes!!), we are inundated with fruit and vegetables needing to be eaten or else processed and stored for […]

Yay for school holidays – and not a minute too soon. Every year teaching seems to take more and more of my energy, and the holidays are so needed. That’s not to say that I’ve not got work to do over the holidays. Between marking, planning, and catching up on whatever I didn’t get finished […]

It feels like ages since I’ve shared an update from our garden. Probably because it has been largely neglected these last 8 months while we focused on getting the farmhouse renovated. However, now that we are settled into the house, we are turning our attentions once again to the garden. When I say we, I […]

We have been super excited to watch our asparagus patch finally yield us some delicious morsels. Asparagus takes several years before you can eat the stems, so when they started poking their heads out we were ready. Unfortunately, if you forget to pick them, the aspargus shoots grow very quickly and become woody. We’ve been […]

Well it seems like ages since I took you for a little stroll around our garden. Let’s blame the cold and wet because, my goodness, we have had plenty of both. With Spring poking its head out, and the occasional warm sunny day, it’s the perfect time to see what’s happening in the the garden. […]

Our basil was super late growing this year. Earwigs ate the first lot of plants, and the second lot took a while to get going. We even ended up buying several batches of basil to cook with because we didn’t have any in the garden. At long last however, the basil plants are full of […]

After a slow start (those pesky earwigs), the garden is now full of produce. Each day Country Boy is harvesting boxes of tomatoes, eggplants, zucchinis, and corn. The tomatoes started later than they have in previous years. The plants took longer to get established with all those earwigs trying to eat them. They may have […]