We have had a busy few weeks, the temperatures ramped up quickly, we sold a lot of the ginger which needed digging, cleaning, boxing and shipping. We have replanted our ginger, more rows this year, with a focus on specialist Gingers, Galangal and Kencur. The garlic will be ready to harvest in November and meanwhileContinue reading “Early Spring 2021 (September/October)”
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Winter 2021 (June, July, August)
After some busy weeks, planting new garlic – Russian, Queensland Purple and Australian Red, we are now beginning the great ginger harvest. Jed has become our sales man and Simon and I are busy digging up the ginger and turmeric. It is all done by hand, cleaned, sorted and washed to make sure that weContinue reading “Winter 2021 (June, July, August)”
Getting ready for Autumn 2021
So the ginger is getting itself ready for harvest in August, we have replanted Russian garlic and added a few new varieties to see how they go – Queensland Purple, Australian Red and Italian Purple. The new varieties produce a smaller bulb but stronger and hotter flavour so looking forward to trying them in theContinue reading “Getting ready for Autumn 2021”
March 2021
Christmas, New Year and Zac’s Birthday were hard. We cried, laughed and shared bitter sweet memories over the last few months. He is with us every day but when we are at the farm we feel connected through our shared vision, the trees, animals, birds and, of course, our determination to work in harmony withContinue reading “March 2021”
First Harvest
So the hot weather of December has arrived and the Garlic has decided that it needs to be harvested. The Ginger has started sprouting but it needs regular watering to stop the young leaves burning in the sun. We have to mow regularly between the rows to keep the grass down, may be the Roo’sContinue reading “First Harvest”
Summer cover crops
We are trying to improve the micro-biome, increase organic matter in the soil and support soil structure. When we first began digging around the soil was incredibly compacted and nutrient poor with awful water retention properties. We know that this is a long term effort to reverse the decline in soil viability. and nutrition. TheContinue reading “Summer cover crops”
Ginger planting
So time has come for the planting of Ginger :0… a lot of compost, mulch, sweat and more sweat! We are trying to keep mechanical and chemical intervention to a minimum so Simon and I (mostly Simon) hand shovelled 20 cube of compost for the Ginger to be planted and then the rows were mulched.Continue reading “Ginger planting”
Spring is coming!
Nature is so amazing, a bit of warmth in the day, Simon’s sprinkler system up and working for some moisture and hey presto, garlic and oats yum yum 🙂
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