The weather has been brilliant for my daily treks through the fields with our Kalahari Red Goats. We have our goats divided into groups and each group has a Maremma dog attached as a guard. When I take the older male goats out for a walk, I’m always accompanied by … Read more →
An Autumn Ramble with Kalahari Goats
I adore this time of year on our Kalahari goat farm. The fields are burnished gold with cheery little flowers hidden among the tall grasses. It’s the time of year when our usual paddocks have been eaten down to the ground and we need to take the goats foraging for … Read more →
Gorgeous Autumn Mornings and Cranberry Semolina Porridge
I adore Autumn mornings on our Queensland goat farm. They start misty and quiet, thick waves of fog rolling over the fields and into the bush. Then the sun eases over the neighboring hills, turning the fog into golden clouds like a blanket of light. Every spider web and blade … Read more →
A Good Day for Fencing
After a very stormy summer, it’s been an exquisitely beautiful Autumn with hot, golden days. Yesterday friends arrived to spend ANZAC Day with us only to announce that they’d spotted several of our goats in the neighbors paddock. The guys headed for the fields and tracked down the escape artists … Read more →
New Ducklings, Refinishing Furniture, and Glorious Autumn
It has been a wonderful holiday here on the farm. Two whole weeks of lazy breakfasts, leisurely cuppas, and oodles of time to tackle fun projects. It is well and truly Autumn in Queensland now, and I love it!!! Mornings are chilly and require flannels and cozy blankets with my … Read more →
Homemade Concord Grape Juice and a Blogging Break
This morning we woke to this gorgeous sight. How I love Australian sunrises and sunsets. Easter break starts today and I will be taking a blogging break until the middle of April. I am so excited to knuckle down and tackle all sorts of projects: clearing out sheds, building fences … Read more →
Autumn Sunshine and a Savory Crustless Veggie Quiche
We’ve had sunshine for three whole days now. Glorious, warm, golden, Autumn sunshine, the kind of sunshine that seeps into your bones and cozies you from the inside out. I’m loving it. After weeks on end of rain and bluster, this quiet, glowing, warmth is exquisite. I love it especially … Read more →
Adorable Muscovy Ducklings
It was pouring down rain with wild winds and heavy, dark clouds as I sloshed my into the Muscovy duck pen to feed them earlier this week. As I bent down to check on a mother who’d been sitting on a clutch of eggs for a while, I was astonished … Read more →
How to Build a Goat-Proof Fence Part One
Over the summer holidays Bear and I put in many long hours building goat-proof fences on our Australian goat farm. We would start early in the morning just after sunrise to work as many hours as we could before the searing heat of the afternoon. The morning light was absolutely … Read more →
Life on the Farm After the Queensland Floods
Sorry for the silence here of late! I’m afraid it’s been one drama after another here on our goat farm on the Darling Downs. First were days of pouring rain and massive winds that sent leaves pelting our roof like massive drops of rain. Then came the 2013 Queensland floods … Read more →