Rural People & Issues

Tamarillos save the day

Don't you hate it when you think you'd made enough jam/pickle/chutney/relish to last to the next season … and you hadn't. My fault.

Chapter 27

Rah! Rah! Rah! I’m sick of the word ‘failure’.

Chapter 26

I have won an award! Amazing.

Chapter 25

Last week I had a little reminder of what was to come.

Chapter 24

The Bafor and the Bahafta, is what my Dad used to say as he surveyed his day’s battle with the garden.

Chapter 23

Peppermint! #@**@# !!!

Chapter 22

“I don’t want to be sustainable. It’s not who I am. It’s not what this little farm is about.”

Chapter 21

Strategizing is a skill you use when all else fails or if the problem looks to be too big.

Chapter 20

When I came here, the farm was a mess. I knew what I was taking on – including the state of the soil.

Chapter 19

“How extraordinary,” I thought as I watched the wind gusts swing the backing gate across the dairy shed yard.

Chapter 18

Men love to keep tough things a mystery … and the way we ladies have been ‘conditioned’ to being semi-hopeless, hopeless, or drastically hopeless is a matter for the situation or the man’s ego.

Chapter 17

Well, pregnancy testing is over. Thank goodness. Anxiety dissipates as the verdict “Pregnant” … “Pregnant” … “Pregnant” exits the vet’s mouth and I add another tick alongside another cow’s name.

Chapter 16

Recently I made another one of those proper-dairy-farmer decisions and I changed my whole farming system so that I could supply a specialised GRASS FED milk.

Chapter 15

Now, the most dreadful part of getting to know my girls again was the reality that I was a commercial dairy farmer and I had to make THOSE commercial dairy farmer decisions.