HillsEnd Kitchen Garden

Ricky (Baker) a cute little adopted white rooster of unknown breed

2 Pekin Bantum chickens (Violet and Snowball)

a hive of Tetragonula Hockingsi native bees,

an Alexandrine who goes by the name of Banjo (Patterson)

a cute little white adopted Cockatiel by the name of Henry (Lawson),

William (Shakespeare) the Shetland,

Molly the adopted Hanoverian Warmblood mare,

2 adopted goats by the name of Daisy (the boy) & Billie (the girl) of unknown breed

2 sheep who go by Lavern & Shirley (Lavern is a Damara and Shirley is a Dorper)

6 heritage breed chickens and 2 roosters (who provide our eggs). Fredrick is the prime rooster and takes care of his girls while our newest member Einstein is still getting to know everyone. Our breeds are currently Plymouth Rock, Rhode Island Red, Wyandotte and Silkie.

We are also fortunate to enjoy a small herd of deer who visit quite regularly along with the usual locals such as snakes, bandicoots, frogs, birds and European bees.

We truely love our animals and love being able to help animals in need of a home. We are currently almost at capacity however, there’s alway room for one more :)

Our little garden is primarily driven by a desire to reduce our footprint on our precious planet. We don't use any commercial pesticides, herbicides or fertilisers. Our garden is lovingly tended, hand weeded and receives home grown compost and worm castings. Our stock predominantly comes from Eden seeds (or similar), gifts/cuttings from family and friends and seed saving from organic produce. We hope over time to locate amazing old varieties that grandma use to grow in her veggie garden so if you have any seeds/cuttings you’d like to share or swap, we would LOVE to hear from you!

Our home kitchen garden is a family passion and we each spend time trying to increase our knowledge about gardening and the growing of fruit and veggies from those who have spent the better part of a lifetime doing so. Thankfully we have the guidance from Aunty (ABC’s Gardening Australia) and dear friends and family who thankfully know far more than we do and are happy to share their knowledge with us.

Since moving here we have been working hard on our kitchen garden, fencing for the animals, growing our furry/fluffy family and thankfully we sometimes have excess produce which we share with others as we can through our page, our local community pages and the local Brookfield Food Swap mornings. When we do have excess produce, we will post on our wall so you can see what is available and when. If you’re interested, please let us know so we can have your fresh picked produce waiting for you!

In the mean time, please enjoy our page and all the goings on around the farm :)