Taithligh Farm

23/11/2023

Help us pay for our bee hive addiction and buy some honey and honeycomb this year for Christmas! They make wonderful gifts and food platters so you cant lose. Also honey keeps forever so no spoilage. Available through Reko Maleny on Facebook or you can message me ❤️

16/11/2023

Coffee snow! The beans are pretty much done for this year, asides from a few stragglers and the recent rain has triggered a coordinated flush of perfumed coffee flowers! Very pretty 💕 I havent weighed all the coffee we picked this year yet because Im only weighing it once its fully processed and roasted. But it will be a few kilos!

08/11/2023

Check out my little baby Wurtz avocado. He’s not actually the wurtz, he’s the best!

02/11/2023

And we have another flower on the jackfruit. Looks male to me, so no fruit coming just yet but an excellent sign that female flowers and then fruit are not far away.

01/11/2023

Two things….its raining a little bit. And we might get some mangoes out of this 🤩

06/09/2023

Made a snap decision to pull my garlic. Its a tad on the green side but the cloves have divided and theyve developed papers, so should be ok. Didnt want it to get rained on.

05/09/2023

The blueberries are on. Yummy and bursting with antioxidants. Breakfast sorted.

05/09/2023

My art studio window makes a great hot spot for drying roses- and bonus, my studio smells amazing!

29/08/2023

We grow our broccoli over winter when its cool and there are no cabbage moths. No spray and usually no nets required. The broccoli continues to punch out so many little heads after the main stem is long gone. Weve been picking broccoli for months. This lot is destined for the freezer.

29/08/2023

My house smells amazing! Drying roses and lemon blossom for tea 😍💕

29/08/2023

Its shaping up to be a fantastic fruiting season. Some trees coming into maturity for the first time also. Here we have pomolo, mango, jaboticaba, lychee, avocado and a very loaded nectarine.

24/08/2023

Apple blossom is so pretty, I would grow these trees even if they didnt fruit!!

24/08/2023

The macadamia has gone mad! How beautiful to see it in full swing!

19/08/2023

16/08/2023

A walk around the garden…

31/07/2023

Jaboticaba in full flowering swing! Much more flowers this year!

30/07/2023

The start of a great coffee season! Tonnes of beans on and some plants have started re-flowering!

28/07/2023

Such an enjoyable lunch immersing ourselves in the closed loop/slow food philosophy behind with legend for

07/07/2023

A casual stroll around our winter subtropical garden…lovely! And exciting, our first fruit on our seed grown jackfruit! Looks like a male flower BUT that means female flowers arent far away 😁😁😁

27/06/2023

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11/06/2023

This might not look too exciting at first glance- but it actually is cause…these little brown buds are the beginnings of miracle fruit flowers! Another first in the garden. If we successfully get fruit, then we will be enjoying experimenting with them because once you eat one, everything tastes sweet for the next hour or two! Meaning, you can literally eat a lemon!

29/05/2023

We pruned off some branches from the cinnamon tree yesterday, so I thought Id have a go at collecting the inner bark- the cinnamon! An exciting “first” for me! Ever since I saw a cinnamon tree in Bali, Ive wanted to grow it. I also collected the leaves for a beautiful cinnamon tea which is so warming in winter :)

27/05/2023

Chasing blue banded bees….so allusive and so beautiful, you can hear them usually before you see them. Delightful watching them gather pollen from the native raspberry, shining like little sapphires in the sun 💙

10/05/2023

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Itching to whip your flowerbeds or veg patch into shape now spring has finally arrived? Not so fast! Life’s much easier when you work with nature rather than against it

01/05/2023

Autumn abundance! The end of the summer brings all the lovely fruits that have developed to maturity. Such a lovely time of year. Enjoying the cooler weather 💕

27/04/2023

The Saba Nut or Malabar Chestnut. Our tree is 6 years old and while it has been producing nuts for several years, this year it really hit its stride. Despite an influx of a particular type of stink bugs, the nuts have produced very well. I like to mostly eat them fresh. They taste like a sort of nutty sprout. Not quite a nut, not quite a sprout.

24/04/2023

I planted quite a lot of chilli this year, all be it a tad late. Were gonna be harvesting for some time yet. The really little ones are a wild chilli- very spicy. I dont plant them, they just pop up. Then we have thai chilli, spicy but a must have flavour in Thai cooking, Long red chilli which are flavourful but mild, and finally these crazy looking but mild Cayenne Chilli’s called Joes Long. We did also grow Jalapeños but have none ripe at the moment. We will be able to make all kinds of condiments and dried chilli flakes too which will take us through the year. No need to buy from the supermarket.

01/04/2023

Rice in a bucket! Not a large crop but will have plenty of seed for a bigger one next time.

20/03/2023

More lotus

20/03/2023

The last of the lotus flowers for this year! They both popped out one last surprise. So very beautiful. Breathtaking really.