Irrigation
Our 6 acre sorghum crop was doing well until 3 weeks ago, using the groundwater following the massive rainfall of November. As the crop...
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We have tried for many years to obtain the "fiddleleaf.com" or "fiddleleaffarms.com" domain for our website, but to no avail, as they are...
New Year's Day 2019
It has been such a huge 12 months ..... separating the two Berwick farm blocks for sale, then restructuring the farm and our farming...
She still knows her hazelnuts at 90!
Even at 90 Meg still likes to check the young hazelnuts trees when she visits the Berwick farm.
40 degrees at Berwick!
Hot hot hot at Berwick (and all Melbourne), so we gave the hazelnut trees an extra hug today ... plus a double dose of irrigation. They...
A highly skilled vet at work
With the arrival of FIDDLELEAF RED PHANTOM (Dam = FIDDLELEAF RED LAVENDER, Sire = FIDDLELEAF RED IVAN ... who is only weeks old, but who...
Crush
After 11 years we have replaced our RPM crush (which we on sold to a young farmer Chris). It took 3 hours to fit the new Metalcorp...
6 new calves
We expected none, as explained previously, but we are now up to 6 new calves. The latest being a gorgeous black bull calf out of...
Irrigation
As I type this Melbourne is getting record rainfall for 2 days. But recently it has been hot and dry, and summer will of course be very...
Our first hazelnuts
Tendering our newly replanted hazelnut grove at Berwick this week, I came across our very first hazelnuts for this grove. Wow!! This...
November operations
Calves calves calves!!! With my broken ankle and the resultant removal of the bulls mid April, we weren't sure if we would get any...
Operations October 2018
We plan to provide monthly updates now that I am recovered from my ankle operations and can actually walk again, and have recommenced...
Red from black, black from red...
Are these not wonderful pictures? Taken on the same day late 2017. A new red calf from a black cow. And a new black calf from a red cow....
Debt free
After farming for 20 years, we have finally managed (by selling off a small part of our Berwick farm), to pay off the mortgage. Hooray!...
Be careful closing the gate
Back in March, after I spent 45 minutes ushering 2 calves back on to my property (they had apparently managed to squeeze under the gate...
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