Oh, how wonderful this summer has become. While we steeled ourselves for the baking heat, oven-like conditions, lack of water, dry and dust…Mother Nature instead has given us a beautiful reprieve of cool temperatures and rain. Blessed be this unusual summer where every day feels like spring! December and January…
Golden Brown, golden brown The landscape’s wearing its golden gown Makes me frown, gets me down I miss the green in this golden brown. As Summer descends, the landscape colour and demeanour is changing. The greenery is disappearing quickly as the weather heats up and the air dries out. The…
Winter is descending, with its icy breath and cold, damp shroud. Things have been busy at the farm as we take advantage of the softer soil and cooler temperatures to get stuff done! With the help of Laurall, our trusty tractor, Stace has been busy putting in posts to make…
How exciting! My plans to open a Saori (Japanese weaving) studio at the farm have just been kicked up a notch with the opportunity to have a studio in the township of Clunes! As part of the Empty Spaces Initiative, run by a not-for-profit organisation called Renew Australia and in…
This farm has helped us learn things about ourselves. It’s tested our strength, our resolve, our relationship and challenged our perceptions on many things. I realise that I am not a fan of the hot, dry summer. Growing up near temperate rainforest, I’m a green forest child and I miss…
Chickens are amazing creatures. They are really tough in many respects and really fragile in others. A chest infection or eggbound oviduct can kill them quickly, whereas grave wounds can just seem like an annoyance and they pull through. Take, for example, one of our beautiful, big Light Sussex girls.…
From our lovely days of spring, the weather has now starting to warm up as summer gets into full swing and give us a hint of increasing summer heat to come. The temperature climbs higher – mid 20’s, 30 degrees…mid 30’s…in the heat of summer (around now) the mercury will…
With my new found hours here at the farm, it’s been timed perfectly with our decision to incubate a new batch of chickens for our laying and eating flock. Carefully collecting up the best selection of eggs from our favourite hens, we carefully stored them until we had enough to…
Spring is finally here at White Stone Farm. Hooray! Winter was frosty and we got a good dose of rain. Our water channeling system successfully harvested rainwater throughout winter, with our drainage channels filling and slowly but surely moving the water across the block, collecting in small pools along…
Look around… Leaves are brown… There’s a patch of snow on the ground… Winter has arrived and thankfully some good soaking winter rains arrived with it. It was a dire time throughout Autumn, with the rains arriving on the very last day. But then Winter descended and with it those…
