May 2016 – Gallifrey Forest Farm

BlogJune 2016

2016/05/27 Danielle 0

A very dear friend of ours is participating in BlogJune this year, and I figured we’d do so too. So this June, expect one post per day. The plan is to complete (at least) one task on the farm or house per day, and record it via the blog posts. At the end of the month, we’ll have a pretty detailed story of our progress for June 2016. I’ll try to put photos up where I can, although not everything we do around here is photogenic. Today’s task, for example, was mucking out the chicken coops. I don’t think […]

the great livestock debate

2016/05/23 Danielle 0

As may have become clear by now, I adore animals. Fur, feathers, scales – they are all awesome in their own special ways. Even guinea fowl (noisy, dumb as bricks, but pretty and useful and lovely) and rabbits (destructive, tree-ringbarking wild versions are annoyingly hardy, while the tame meat-breed ones die far too easily) are pretty cool. My problem is deciding which animals to keep. I mean, I obviously can’t have them all. That would take more space than we have, and feeding them and taking care of them would take more time and $$$ than we have available. […]

Perth Storm 2016

2016/05/22 Danielle 0

In case anyone was concerned, we made it through the storm with no damage. To be honest, the storm was less impressive than the many wild weather warnings led us to expect, although I think it was worse in some places than it was for us. None of the trees blew down, feel down, or really suffered any harm beyond a few leaves being blown off. Some of the big eucalypts lost a few small branches, but nothing significant. We had a LOT of rain, and the swales all filled up; a few overflowed a little, but that’s why […]

Crying Wolf

2016/05/12 Danielle 0

It was inevitable. We’ve had our first losses to a fox or foxes. This morning, early, I heard the guinea fowl making a racket outside, including the one elusive one (which we are still unable to catch in order to pen her with the rest) squawking and scolding near the house. They’re irritatingly noisy birds at the best of times, and they take fright and scold at anything and everything. Pot plants are particularly scary. So I thought, the kangaroos are going through the woods, or the parrots have gone to investigate or something. Or the lone loose […]