Categories: From the Farm This Week
Date: Mar 11, 2011
Title: 11 March 2011
Well a good rain at the start of the week. The grapes needed a bit and we are starting to pick and eat some. But it has been cold. I should have picked it was going to get colder as soon as i had the fly blown lambs - it was a last ditch attempt by the flies trying to save their genetics!
The cold snap has brought the pests looking for food. Ruth has trapped another ferret that along with a wild cat (still at large) has eaten a dozen half grown chickens.
I have been a good part of the week building a new shed - an egg shed for sorting and packing eggs and keeping the hatching eggs. Not a big shed about 8 foot by 6, with a bench on two sides and shelves above. Ply outside with a stable door. Rodent proof ..
Spent more time on phone with Nardine Hall from the life style block mag we have an article in the April issue.
We have been clearing the electric fences as the gorse, etc is really shorting it out.
Tuesday night we went to tea at Kama and Peters. Great tea mostly grown from their farm, they even had water melon home grown. It was good to see what they had been up to on the land and look at the plans they have. I would watch this space I'm sure something will happen when they get back from China.
Samuel has put the last of the hay away for next door.
See ya Sunday
John