Hi everyone

ive just joined your warm and cheery online community as someone interested in starting a permaculture hobby farm in WA.

Aside from a suburban backyard vege patch and having read the WA govt booklet on small rural agricultural landholdings, I have little to no experience.

Sorry all, I must not have posted my initial question properly, leaving the post blank. I will try again!

If Currey is not interested in the answer to his pasture question I certainly am as I have the same query.

My property is at Braidwood NSW, the southern tablelands, on a ridge so not great land.

Hi

I wonder if anyone can advise me what insurance I would need for my property. I have 10 acres in the Adelaide Hills with circa 200 olive trees grown for oil. At the moment we are running this as a hobby farm ourselves (although we just used a pruning service) with no employees. There is some equipment, tractor, electric harvesters and a trailer. There is also a dam on the property and the entire property fenced.

We live on the property and of course our house and contents are currently insured - through AAMI.

We have a large paddock that is shared by goats/alpacas.....it has recently been covered in moss with very little feed available ....we are planning to till the paddock and lime it...and we were wondering what we should seed it with? What would be our best seed mix to use when replanting for goats/alpacas?

Hope some one can give me some advice. My wife & I have just purchased 7.5 acres in Millthorpe NSW. Its my chance to get away from the rat race ( Sydney ) and start to plant out the property for future established trees & possibly put in some vines while everyone else in Australia seems to be ripping them out. Eventually we will build & have this as our Rural getaway. We love the region & its surroundings.