The One and a Half Acre Wood

17/11/2024

For anyone interested in learning more about homeschooling, come along to the Homeschool Expo in Durham St, this coming Saturday.
We will be an exhibitor there with our petting zoo, so your kids can have animal cuddles while you chat with us about our programs on offer, and browse the other stalls.

15/11/2024

13/11/2024

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29/10/2024

I love my view from the kitchen ❤️

28/10/2024

Stuck for a XMAS PRESENT option for your child or grandchild?? 🎄🎄
We sell GIFT VOUCHERS for a visit here at The One and a Half Acre Wood
$70 for a 1 hour private hands-on tour for 1 child and 2 caregivers, or $140 for 2 hours - we will customise your visit to your child - can include pony grooming and ride, farm animal and petting zoo and eel feeding. Extra family/friends can attend for just $10 per person.
Email [email protected] to enquire!

24/10/2024

This is excellent and should be a watch for EVERYONE with kids or grandkids! I see every one of these uncomfortable greetings every single time I have a group arrive here at The One and a Half Acre Wood unless I do a safe dog greeting talk as part of my Health n Safety Introduction chat!

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21/10/2024

We love doing XMAS PARTIES!!
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Basic Package includes
* Full Farm animal and small animal petting zoo hands-on experience
* Horse rides (lead rein) for children up to 90kg
* Eel-feeding (super popular as kids do it themselves)

Optional Add-ons:
1. CAMPFIRE 🔥 Sausages n bread/tomato sauce and marshmallow s’mores, drinking water and cooking sticks provided - if you want other drinks, you bring those
2.FACE-PAINTING Xmas theme
3. XMAS DECORATED BARN complete with Xmas tree for you to pop presents under
(NB you bring the presents)
4. SCAVENGER HUNT and CRAFT

Message us here for prices and bookings, or email [email protected]

06/10/2024

Do you have a horse-crazy child? Book now for Term 4 Pony Classes where your child will learn to ride as well as care for their pony.
Details below:

29/09/2024

Still have a few spaces left for our PONIES AND PETS HOLIDAY PROGRAM
*Monday and Wednesday for ages 8-13yrs*

**$75 per day LUNCH INCLUDED**
9am-3pm

* Horse Rides
* Farm animal and Small animal Petting Zoo
* Eel feeding
* Campfire sausages and marshmallows
* Games, Art n Craft, Scavenger Hunt
* Friendly small dogs and more!

*Our Australian Water Dragon and Blue-Tongue Skink are both awake too!*

Email. [email protected] to book

25/09/2024

This is Keller the guineapig. Her and her sister Helen were born completely blind, deaf and with very malaligned teeth (a good example of why ya don’t marry your cousin - their mother had accidentally gotten pregnant by one of her baby sons and Helen and Keller were the result!)
We have to trim their front teeth every few weeks as they are crooked so don’t wear themselves down on food etc. If we didn’t, the teeth would just keep growing until they dug into their mouths or chins and this would eventually kill them.
Helen and Keller live a very content life in a large cage inside in our living room. We have to keep their water and pellet bowls in exactly the same place so they can find them easily, their cage is one level, and they have a circular hide that they snuggle up together in to sleep. When they are feeling energetic, they run round and round their hide popcorning, feeling the outside of the hide with one side of their face.
Helen and Keller make excellent petting zoo guineapigs because they don’t get spooked by sights or sounds, so are very content to just sit on kids laps and eat the grass that is hand fed to them ❤️ and they can’t see to run away, so they just stay put! 😂
They are also very friendly and affectionate as you can see by the video below 🥰

24/09/2024

Zoomies Episode 2: Leo identifies as an Arab 😂

24/09/2024

Everyone had the zoomies today 😂🥰
Episode 1

23/09/2024

Wow! This one is for all my fellow dog-lovers out there ❤️🐶

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23/09/2024

And then there were 3! 🦆🦆🦆❤️❤️❤️
Warm lettuce bath for the orphan Mallard ducklings.
One of the biggest killers of pet ducklings is hypothermia because they don’t have a mummy to waterproof their feathers for them and to snuggle under after a swim. Mummy duck body temperature is 41.1-42.2°C which keeps the ducklings REALLY cosy.
So the bath must be lukewarm (not cold) and brief, then we have to dry them off with a towel and place them on a heat pack with a woolly blankie to snuggle under.

23/09/2024

Sophie has a new orphan best friend ❤️ (turn yr sound up)
🐣🐥 ❤️ 🦆

11/09/2024

Horse Riding lessons for kids DURING TERM TIME:
We do group classes for $40 per session as per the ad below, and also private lessons for $80 per hour - pm us to enquire!

08/09/2024

Bookings are now open for our PONIES AND PETS October HOLIDAY PROGRAM!
Read the ad below for all activity details and to select the correct day/s for your child’s age group.

To book: email [email protected]

Edit: Thursday 10 Oct is now fully booked but we still have spaces other days.

06/09/2024

Leo says “YES we will be running our popular HOLIDAY PROGRAM in BOTH WEEKS of the October School hols! Bookings open soon, keep an eye out!”