Rosy & Curly are pregnant!

 Curly (left) and Rosy (Right) are soon to calve

Any day  or week now ...

Big meal for local VEG group

Vera cooks David's favourite Greek Lamb & Coss Lettuce Stew 

for our Clayton's Coop - The Valley Exchange Group.

No pasture in August

 Three weeks of frost and months of no rain = no pasture

Cattle had to be fed lucerne hay.

January visitors

Ugo and Barbara from Tuscany visit again ...just after the Barcelona gang

 David talking solar power with students from Sydney Permaculture Institute

Vera talks to them about growing your own vegetables

First rain for yonks on 26th July - day we held the Educational Field Day

 Good turn out

Good tucker

The big shed gets a slab

 

 

We planted close to 1,500 trees & shrubs

Got the attention of local authorities

Representatives from local Council and Regional Land Services visited the project site and agreed to fund an educational day on techniques we have used to treat Arundo donax and the bio-waste produced.

We have been busy getting rid of one of the fastest growing plants on earth

 Hard work getting rid of this weed - Arundo donax, also known as Giant Reed and False Bamboo.

The smoke on the righ side of frame is shown in close up below

 Get the scale?

 

Fire to germinate any seed from native trees in the soil

The Morrison brothers are top Arundo slayers!

Digging trenches and burying water pipes ... very neatly.

Andrew always brings great home made sourdough

Lunch with Jacob & Darren's mob

Vera organised community workshop in May to encourage othersto eradicate our worst weed, Arundio donax, from the river

The 2014 Convict100 Bike Ride

David & Vera get to marshall Convict100 Bike Ride

 at the best check point - 4th May 2014