It really has been an introduction to farming this winter. Before we lived on a farm and tried to make a living from the farm I occasionally wondered why farmers always seemed to be complaining about the weather. But now I know that all of our work is dependent on the weather. The extremes in the last few days of severe cold, wind strong enough to almost blow your eyelashes off and constant rain has had an impact on the vegies I can harvest, whether I can let the chooks out or not and the jobs I can do. We had set up a small plastic greenhouse for seedlings until we can get out polytunnel organised and that blew over in the wind. It is now tied down to stakes.
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| 1st July 2014 (photo 1) |
I often think that a cloud like to sit on our mountain (as seen in the photos on July 1st) but every so often the fog is in the valleys leaving our mountain in the sun (July 15th). I have been feeding the chooks warm porridge in the morning and the bees their sugar syrup. The cat gets to enjoy the fire.
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| 15th July 2014 |
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| 1st July 2014 (photo 2) |
Our major project at the moment has been to get the area around the
trees ready for when Greg comes to take them down. We have removed all
the fencing on both sides and Bob has been busy mulching the fallen wood
so the machinery can get access. The strong winds yesterday dropped
some more branches so we will have to go out and mulch those tomorrow.
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| Muffin asleep in front of the wood stove |
Yesterday the electric fence around the orchard was breached by the cows
and many trees eaten (pruned). The loquat tree mentioned in the last post was one of the casulaties, eaten to the ground. I can't wait for Andrew to come to put
up our fox proof, cow proof anti-aviary for our orchard. And this is
going to be the last weather related post for a while, I hope.
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