by Richard | Apr 14, 2021 | Farm Updates
Tired, but happy: We finally got three healthy lambs. We’ve also been doing a bit of direct seeding, putting up a 20m caterpillar tunnel, making predator poles and taking the yurts up to the forest, and we’ve started building the new decking. We’re looking...
by Richard | Apr 12, 2021 | Farm Updates
We’d just transplanted the first kales and then it snowed again… We also stayed up late for lambing, sadly only to welcome two more bad lambs. Eggs have started coming, so we’ve been ironing out the last nest box kinks, and we’ve also prepared the second tunnel for...
by Richard | Apr 9, 2021 | Farm Updates
I’m down at my West Coast farm to map out the fencing. That will allow me to purchase the materials needed, and I’ll then bring a small team with me to set it up. We’re mostly going to follow the edges of the pasture and then add a bit of fencing up on the giant rock,...
by Richard | Apr 8, 2021 | Animal Enterprises, Farm Updates
In today’s video I’m killing, skinning and gutting a ram, so viewer discretion is advised. We don’t want the ewes to get pregnant again right now, so it’s time to take him out of the flock, and home butchering is the way we get food from farm to fork in the simplest,...
by Richard | Apr 7, 2021 | Farm Updates
We’ve been tweaking the new automated nest boxes which need to be ready to receive the first eggs in about ten days, mulching the paddy ponds to get them ready for rice (with our home-produced compost), and brainstorming the Ridgedale Eats book that we’re...
