Imago - October 2011

Well this is the first post in a very long time!

Headed up to the farm with Danielle, Persephone, Mum and Perra. It's a beautiful time of year to go up and it's the first time we've been up as a family for about five months!

It was a bit rainy to begin with but Danielle and I put out the fruit fly traps and the codling moth traps, as well as got the last (third) section of the electric fence removed. On Day 2 we uncovered the maple trees and protected them as well as the pomegranate, cherries, and maple trees. Danielle did a whole lot of weeding! Sussed out the irrigation situation to prepare for getting a trench digger. I'm wanting to install pipes between the dam, yurt, garden and yoilet. On Day 3 we ook it a bit easier and walked down to the picnic spot. I took Persephone for a swim in the dam... bit chilly! But she enjoyed it. And we put up a prototype of how we'll put the foil insulation up in the yurt. I also sprayed some seasol onto all the leaves of the trees. Mum spent a lot of time looking out for Persephone while all this was one... so great and helpful.

September 2011
Last month I headed up to the farm with Peter Hagerty. It was the first time in three months so I was a bit trepidatious as to what i'd find. Goodnews everything was pretty much in order.
And with Peter's help we got a good section of the electric fence pulled out. Slashed the whole mandala, put out the first codling moth trap, fixed the dam end of the siphon and tied down the second layer of the nashi. And importantly we put out lime, dolomite and chook pellet around each of th etrees.