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Our second autumn and more compost

March 8, 2021March 8, 2021 Christie

It’s already the start of our second autumn. I looked back at last year and saw some repeated worries but […]

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Timing crop transitions and a burst of summer

February 21, 2021February 21, 2021 Christie

I’m calling it: peak pea has passed. The snap peas and snow peas were particularly prolific – and popular – […]

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Tomatoes, trade-offs and torrential rain

February 8, 2021February 21, 2021 Christie

It really feels like summer now that we’ve started eating (and selling small amounts of) our tomatoes. The basil is […]

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A pause of sorts

January 25, 2021January 25, 2021 Christie

Pausing a farm is a bit tricky, even without any animals (except our hard-working worms of course). But we hit […]

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Summer harvests and looking ahead again

January 11, 2021January 24, 2021 Christie2 Comments on Summer harvests and looking ahead again

Summer has arrived in the Huon Valley, with four consecutive days above 20 degrees in both of the last two […]

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A soil action plan and new sales

December 28, 2020December 28, 2020 Christie2 Comments on A soil action plan and new sales

Over the past fortnight we firmed up a plan to solve our soil problem by next season (we hope!). After […]

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Visitors and garlic guesses

December 15, 2020December 27, 2020 Christie2 Comments on Visitors and garlic guesses

We were finally able to show some of our families a bit of our life during the week just gone, […]

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Week 52: Wild winds and confirmed suspicions

December 7, 2020December 14, 2020 Christie4 Comments on Week 52: Wild winds and confirmed suspicions

Time has flown and suddenly we’ve been here for a year. Technically it’s not quite a year (that’s on Thursday) […]

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Week 51: A first batch of compost

November 30, 2020November 30, 2020 Christie2 Comments on Week 51: A first batch of compost

We started using our own compost this week, which is a mini-milestone, even if the motivation was that we needed […]

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Week 50: Learning from others

November 23, 2020November 23, 2020 Christie

As newbies to market gardening we know we have a lot to learn. Alex might be perfectly content watching YouTube […]

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