Down To Earth Homesteading Australia

06/11/2024

Feeling so excited and so proud!

12/10/2024

My poor veggies patch has been mostly neglected with trying to work, home educate and just life. Today we were out there giving it a good clean up and starting the new fencing. These are some of the things harvested.

My girls are very excited about the huge carrots. Still growing are garlic, spring onions and tomatoes and potatoes.

19/05/2024

4 beds of garlic planted out this week.

The broccolis 🥦 and cauliflowers are growing well.

The rescue chickens we picked up 2 weeks ago that we have been calling the scraggly chickens are looking so much better their feathers are all growing back and they are laying so well.

07/05/2024

My first ever Silver Laced Wyandotte hatching....4 so far. I have 24 eggs in there so hoping for a lot more!!!

05/03/2024

Today's mangos

10/11/2023

New incubator!!!

09/08/2023

The new incubator is on day 21, that means I will have mixed breed, unsexed, day old chicks available for $10 hatching today/tomorrow.

24/06/2023

Well it's been a while since I've updated on the veggie garden, mainly because well I haven't been out there in way too long.

The w**ds have taken over, however today I got in there and made some good progress.

Asparagus bed w**ded. Lettuces in another bed. Have planted broccoli and cauliflower in the old potato beds. Have a new sweet potato bed. Have planted brussel sprouts in another bed and in another one we have onions, garlic, celery and some carrots.

The sheep came and had a go at helping w**d. I think the ducks will be more useful.

I still have a couple beds that are empty and at least 1 that still needs w**ding, however it was getting wet and was losing light.

Hoping to get out there again tomorrow and get a lot more w**ding done, hopefully with help from the ducks and maybe the chickens.

26/03/2023

Well I know I haven't posted very much of late, that's because I don't like admitting things are not going well and well things have been hard!

My health isn't something I usually talk about, usually I am too busy proving what I can do.

For those who don't know I was born with very complex heart defects. I've had multiple operations to fix my heart, this condition will require life long monitoring. I've had 2 open heart surgeries and last week I had my first intervention as an adult, my first as a mother. I had my plumory archery valve replaced with an Edward Sapian 3 (latest tech) and my pulmonary artery stent enlarged from 15mm to 22mm.

I am sore, like I can't really believe how many bruises I have everywhere. However I am healing and for the first time in a long time now, I am not breathless just walking around the house.

So in the interest of raising awareness:

19/03/2023

Organic, homegrown mangos!

02/02/2023

01/01/2023

Yesterday we picked up this little china cabinet that had been converted to a rabbit house. With a few minor adjustments this will be my new chicken incubator and brooder cabinet and storage. New holes drilled out for the brooder plates today.

13/10/2022

Installing a new duck pond for the ducks.

*I did not do this myself, my 2nd oldest daughter has done this to help me out *

31/08/2022

Some phones of what I have growing in the garden... Lots of cauliflower and cabbage!

23/08/2022

My first ever home grown organic, spray free cabbage!!!

My first one ever grown too point of harvest (usually chickens or sheep have eaten them).

15/08/2022

All this from just 2 ewes. One has been in milk since Jan 2022 and is slowing down, the other since last week.

04/06/2022

Increasing the dairy herd!!!