Full disclosure, that heading/quote was totally stolen from Warwick Schiller. And for good reason. I’ve outlined a few times in my stories on my horsemanship journey that I’m kinda doing it on my own. Along the way, people who knew well in advance and people who emphatically offered to help decided last minute they didn’t want to anymore. Regardless of why, I’ve been navigating horsemanship and my own fear and anxiety surrounding my experience collaboratively. This post tells the story.
It’s nearly spring! Gardening and burning off
A warmer Sunday as SEQ starts moving out of Winter and into Spring. Preparing for the incoming wet season and La Nina, getting spring seedlings started and burning off the last big piles.
Clearing and creating new paddocks – dealing with ground asparagus weeds and paperbarks
In today’s post, we had the earth mover out to clear the back paddocks so we can finish our internal fencing, and the issues we’ve had dealing with ground asparagus weeds.
Removing the old cubby and extending the garden
We’ve used this time in lockdown to remove a cubby house that’s been on the property since we first bought it! We’re doing a garden renovation and extending the garden, making a flower and companion planting bed and re-framing the sides of the garden to give more protection! Read on for more…
Weekly update 18 July 2021
For me lockdown or no, life on Milo’s Farm must go on. I got around to lots of small projects this week. But many of them felt like inside jobs so the last two days outside have been fantastic.
So you want to be self sufficient – what does it mean and how do you start?
If you’ve been thinking about taking that idealistic step away from the mainstream and moving towards self-sufficiency, then you’re not alone. It’s a term we’ve heard a lot more this past year and a bit, and has become a lot more mainstream itself. So how realistic is it these days? With a cultural shift evolving and lots of us re-evaluating and changing priorities, we seem to be gleefully stepping further and further away, or so it seems, from the benefits of modern life.
Using the deep mulch method in your garden
Gardening can be a lot of hard physical work. You need to till the soil up in the spring, weed the beds weekly, fertilise often, and water daily. If you want to reduce the time commitment, it’s time you tried the deep mulch method.
Weekly round-up 11 July 2021
Another week on the homestead. This week we settled into a new work structure, Moose had his hendra booster, and we had a few outings that made us realise how much we love and value the farmlife. Read on for more.
20 Ultimate Pandemic/Lockdown Survival Tips For Homesteaders
To survive this pandemic and any future inability to move around freely in the future, you’ll need to act smart, use your resources wisely, in order to ensure you have enough for you and your family to make it through the other end. So here I’ve compiled a bit of a list of useful tips you’ll need to survive lockdown, and if you don’t already have these in place, plans and ideas about how you can implement them for the future.
Weekly update 4 July 2021
A month worth of rain in a week! While the week was almost mostly a write-off, we still got some of the gardening projects complete – especially our greenhouse and seedlings!