How to prune your apple tree

How to prune your apple tree

Pruning apple trees takes a little more specialist knowledge than other fruit types, but your trees will reward you with ample crops.

White with one?

Compost tea is an alchemically magnificent elixir, essential to creating balanced and healthy soil teaming with life. Healthy soil means healthy veggies, which nourish and fuel health-full people. One of the first things we did when we were negotiating the land lease...

Victorian Rural Woman of the Year Award – Week 2

Week 2 (I know, last week I said week 2, but it was really only week 1! I was maybe still a bit overwhelmed at that stage…) Winning this award right now was perfect timing! Not only did it come almost at the end of our fruit season, when my farm work had settled...

Victorian Rural Woman of the Year – my journey starts here

My journey starts here…this is day 1 of the year I will spend as the 2015 recipient for Victoria of the Rural Women’s Award! I’m planning to document the whole process so I don’t forget a single moment of it, to share the journey with you, and...