My wife, Marion and I have just taken over our new farm. It's a 15 acre lot right with a house and a couple of sheds on the edge of town, only a five minute walk to the shop!

The previous owner let the place go and there's blackberries all over, the fences need replacing and the ground is like concrete thanks to the horses.

Hi,

sent a 9 mo crossbred wether for slaughter last month.

The lamb had no setbacks from birth & had more than ample pasture & was fed ewe supplement with garlic & mollases once a week.

It hung for a week at the butcher.........but the lamb had no fat on it when processed & is tough as old bags...........why?

I posted some time ago describing my initial experiments with a solar-powered drip irrigation for my farm at Elands, NSW. I've continued to improve the system each season and thought I'd give an update in case it's helpful for anybody else considering it.

I have two small hazelnut orchards of 100 and 50 trees respectively, for a total area of about 2 acres. I pump from a creek to a 5,000 L tank at the higher of the two orchards, and from there I pump out to a drip irrigation system.