Sunday, July 31, 2011

Finally some new photos

Our calf down with paralysis tick

Maxine, Elisa, and Alessandro cleaning garlic
We do like our garlic
Yes, it was a bit overwhelming
Fredrik and Alessandro building a chicken shed
6 weeks old chickens get there own garden to run around in
Pepe (the dog) would love to play with the chicks
new born chicks
One of our bulls wondering what we are taking a photo of
Moving the whole herd
Cattle coming up to be moved into a new paddock
Rounding the cattle up in the yards
Alessandro testing the cattle scale
Giving them Vit. B shot
It sure beats mowing the lawn

They do have a good life


Alessandro, Elisa, Maxine, Pepe, and Fredrik




Ok, sometimes Liston is not big enough, so you have to go to Brisbane
Bob is admiring his work on the new stick rake
Bob cleaning out one of our many dams

Saturday, October 10, 2009

The last year and a half - Part 1 - Sorry for the wait

Starting the fruit tree orchard



The new dam is slowly filling up



Ripping the future vegie patch expansion



The new house fence



Landscaping around the house






The new fence along the driveway



Building the pergola









Dinner time



Yes, there is a goddess in the woods



Photo courtesy of Shakof



Photo courtesy of Shakof



Hanging out on the balcony


Photo courtesy of Shakof



Photo courtesy of Shakof



Photo courtesy of Shakof



Our new mailbox


Photo courtesy of Shakof



She is life size






Undercliffe falls near where we live
Photo courtesy of Hanna



The local swimming hole
Photo courtesy of Hanna





Photo courtesy of Hanna





Local field day





Photo courtesy of Hanna



Hanging out after work





The wwoofers building the new landscape feature



Mushroom compost



New fence around house






Magnus, Amelia, and Hanna





It took a lot of soil to fill the center piece



We had a lot of helpers



Learning more about compost tea near Cairns










Our new solar hot water unit for the floor heating system







Moving 50 head of cattle from Ian Perkins place to the land - a distance of around 15 km


Putting down 2 " poly pipe to be able to pump up water from the dams and store it in tanks on the hills, and also to be able to have water spots for the cattle


It takes a big spinner to get the massive spools of poly pipe out.




The pipe laying plow










The new tanks




Gravity fed supply of water to stock



Mulching up the citrus trees for the winter



We have a great way to get mulch fast and easy



My Korean wwoofer putting down garlic to grow over winter


It doesn't look like a big spot of land, but it generated and amazing amount of garlic



We mulch it heavily to keep away the weeds and to create a good enviroment for the garlic



We have now jumped to August when I returned form overseas, and we are busy burning stacks of old timber




An old dead tree works as a chimney






A wild fire at a neighbors place which we helped to control



The wwoofers did a great job helping out


Seeding up potatoes



Louise preparing the seed beds


The yeoman plow heading out to the fields for another day of ripping the soil on a keyline system



The deep ripping action from the Keyline plow

It creates very little disturbance in the paddock


Well, spring is here


After a dry winter, all the growing action are in the gullies


Flooding the swale next to the house


Trying out a few other seeding implements for the future


Everyday we make new paddocks for the cattle with a single wire electric fence




In areas where we don't have gravity feed water we pump up to a trailer with 2,000 L. tanks




On one side we did some burning this winter and the other we didn't


Gathering around the water