by Sas & Mel | May 17, 2019
Gidday out there! As I write this the correllas, galahs and cockatoos and cacophony of other birds, dogs, cows and who knows what else are banging around and the sun is on my face. Its a perfect autumn day, the grass is growing and covering what was dust almost...
by Sas & Mel | Apr 26, 2019
The season is turning and our beautiful fruit trees are starting to lose their leaves and go dormant for the winter. Katie and Merv have been out amongst them, counting up how many trees of what variety are a good size to sell and loading the information onto the...
by Sas & Mel | Apr 4, 2019
April means garlic for us and the anniversary of our time growing at Mt Alexander Fruit Gardens. In theory garlic is the last of our autumn and winter crops to go in the ground, but in reality it’s one of the many things we’re rushing to get in the ground...
by Sas & Mel | Feb 15, 2019
It comes around so quick. Amidst the busy-ness of summer harvest time we somehow find time to kneel among our beautiful seedling root stock nursery and imagine the varieties they will one day be. It’s a little bit Frankenstein, a little bit God, to change the...
by Sas & Mel | Feb 8, 2019
I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water. My tasks lie in their places where I left them, asleep like cattle. Then what is afraid of me comes My tasks lie in their places and lives a while in my sight. What it fears...
